PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ON INVENTORY CONTROL IN OIL AND GAS SECTORS

ABSTRACT

This research work, assessing the impact of information technology an inventory control in oil and gas sector. This study is focused on Kaduna refinery and petrochemical company. The study covers five chapters, chapter one introduces the subject matters and spells out the objectives to be achieves and as well as the significant of the study. Chapter makes criteria review of the current literature on the subject matter. The third chapter presents the methods of data collections, chapter four shows the presentations and the analysis of data collected from the respondents. The fifth chapter shows the summary, recommendation and conclusion. The population for this study covers four hundred and fifty staffs of refinery the researcher randomly selects forty five staffs randomly as her sample size. The hypothesis formulated for this study includes, Ho: the use of information technology has no positive impact on inventory control in the oil and gas sector. Hi: The use of information technology has a positive impact on inventory control in the oil and gas sector. Data collected were presented and analyzed in a tabular form using percentage. It was further tested with use of chi-square and hypothesis was confirmed.