THE DEVELOPMENT OF HALAL LOGISTICS WAREHOUSE: A STUDY AT MASKARGO SDN BHD

Abstract

Halal logistics plays a vital role of transporting and distributing perishable commodities, raw materials, and food products without contaminating them. It is critical to guarantee that product information is not overlooked and that Muslim consumers only purchase and consume Halalan Toyyiban products. By having a well-planned logistics company, they can ensure that Halal freight in the warehousing service is physically isolated from non-halal freight. Hence, the purpose of this research is to review thedevelopment of halal logistics implementation in MASkargo, KLIA. Generally, this study was conducted to identify the halal product arrangement procedure at warehouse of halal and non-halal product simultaneously to determine appropriate requirement according to halal standard operating procedure and to examine specific labelling in halal standard operating procedure. The researcher used a qualitative method to obtain data which are interview questions consisting of the feedback of Maskargo Sdn Bhd employees. The result of the study shows that MASkargo company have established dedicated handling andstorage area for halal shipment within the cargo terminal. Other than that, the development of halal logistics consists of dedicated Halal zone, labelling, segregation and the most important part is continuing to bring awareness and training to operators. In essence, the researcher hopes that the final result of this research can help future research and academicians toimplement several improvements and changes regarding thisresearch topic.