The Guideline of Optimizing Warehouse Management in Business and Industry Sector in Thailand

Abstract

The purposes of this research were 1) to study the quality of general operations of warehouse industry, 2) to study the guideline of optimizing warehouse management in business and industry sector in Thailand, and 3) to develop a structure equation model of the guideline of optimizing warehouse management in business and industry sector in Thailand. Qualitative and quantitative research methods were employed in this study. The qualitative data was obtained from expert 9 persons, and the quantitative data was obtained from both entrepreneurs and executive in the business and warehouse industry 500 samples. The questionnaires that passed content validity value showed 0.60-1.00, reliability value 0.972. Results of the research showed that quality of general operations of warehouse industry composes of 5 aspects consisted of Coordination, Resource, Internal Process Control, Information Technology, and Transportation. Overall most important were average 3.86 and found that difference in side of recognized at .05 significant level. The analysis of the developed structure equation model showed that it was in accordance and fit with the empirical data and passed the evaluation criteria. Its Chi-square probability level, relative Chi-square, goodness of fit index, and root mean square error of approximation were .082, 1.149, 0.962, and .017 respectively.