Supply Chain Transparency and Competitive Advantage; The Role of Stock Management: A Case Study of Ghana Oil Company
Chapter One
Objective of the study
The objectives of the study are;
- To ascertain the role of stock management on supply chain transparency in Ghana Oil Company
- To ascertain the role of stock management on competitive advantage in Ghana Oil Company
- To evaluate how supply chain management can help Ghana Oil Company in attaining competitive advantage in Oil industry
CHAPTER TWO
LITERATURE REVIEW
As personal computers appear on nearly every desktop in both service and manufacturing businesses, keyboarding skills have increasingly become a fundamental part of “computer literacy” (Grierson, 1985, p. 11). In an earlier time, nearly all external and much internal business correspondence was prepared by a relatively few secretarial and clerical employees. In this era of local and wide area networks, however, most internal and much external correspondence is being typed on a computer keyboard in its final form by the person originating the message. In a typical office setting, the person typing memos, technical reports, financial reports, etc. is very likely to be other than a clerical employee. In a production or factory setting, non-clerical factory workers and manual laborers are expected to input production data, industrial quality measurements, telephone orders, and other items of routine information into personal computers or keyboard terminals.
As a result of this developing vocational picture, some level of keyboarding skill has rapidly become a baseline requirement for both professional and non-professional workers. This situation has translated into opportunities for increased employability, higher earnings, and further educational attainment for those with even basic keyboarding skills (Lewis, 1994, p. 29). Although electric typewriters were the norm for many years in secondary school typewriting classes, microcomputers have increasingly become the equipment of choice for teaching keyboarding skills and familiarization with word processing, database, and spreadsheet applications (Swanson, 1990, p. 11). The huge financial investment associated with massive personal computer procurement for keyboarding classes invites an interesting question. If we assume that computer-based keyboard instruction methods are preferable for introducing students to computer literacy concepts, are they also a faster method of building keyboarding speed and accuracy.
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