INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Marketing as a course of study is very young compared to other established courses of study, so also is planning and control in business. A marketing plan is a comprehensive blueprint which outlines an organization’s overall marketing efforts. A marketing process can be realized by the marketing mix. The last step in the process is the marketing control. The marketing plan can function from two points: strategy and tactics. In most organizations, “strategic planning” is an annual process, typically covering just the year ahead. Occasionally, a few organizations may look at a practical plan which stretches three or more years ahead. The aim of any marketing operation (planning and control is to make the future happier, but this fact was not well recognized by most firms, initially the job that should be handled by experts in the field of marketing were given to less qualified personnel and in most cases this shortens life of most business.
As time went on there is competition among companies and they have to first to know what their customers want before they market it. This idea bought about companies having well laid down plan before the market good and services for market needs. In executing the plans the company or marketers in charge how feel that to be successful one must be able to control set down plans.
The process of marketing planning and control is to make the future happier. It is mostly concerned with helping management identify marketing problems and alternative ways to solving them and easy decision making, marketing planning share with the other activities of the marketing mix, the distinction in commerce of being a dynamic element in operation of business.
In the view of planning is the process of anticipating the future and determining course of action for achieving organizational objectives. Planning is deciding in advance what to do, how to do it, when to do it and who is to do it.
Planning process creates blue prints that not only specify the means for achieving organizational objectives but provides loopholes at which performance can be compared with expectations to determine whether current and activities are moving the organization toward its objectives.
Adirika believes that he who fails to plan planes to fail. This include organization, he noted future that no organization can operate profitably by merely trying to react to situation development as they occur. It is because of the important of planning that the researcher looks at the role of marketing planning in the achievement of an organizational objective of Emenite Company Nig Ltd
1.2 statement of the problem
To survive in a dynamic and competitive environment like our marketing organization must understand and practice marketing planning. Marketing planning up an organization to base its marketing program or marketing effort on the needs and want of consumers marketing planning leads to increased profitability survival and growth of the from. Inspite of these and many more many company including computer services from plays Lip services to marketing planning these have cost a lot of failure of many organization including Emenite product. This the researcher seeks to find white having company fail to plan their marketing products?
To what extent does lacks of marketing planning lead to fail of many companies these and many mane farms. The central task of these research works.
1.4 RESEARCH QUESTIONS
1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CUSTOMERS:
This study is expected to draw the alternative of other researchers in the field of business especially marketers who may be interested to conduct more research in the area of the importance of efficient marketing planning in an organization.
Information produced will act as a frame work to direct marketing manager in formulating efficient marketing planning even foreign investors in Nigeria.
It is expected that, this will bring out the role of efficient marketing planning and control in increasing sales of a organization product it will help to provide an explanation of those facts that can ensure of the effectiveness of marketing planning. This research work will provide an insight into the operation of marketing planning and expected to serve potential marketers as history or reference materials during their own time of leaving. Fellow student who are carrying out research on this topic will equally find this material a relevant point.
1.6 SCOPE OF THE STUDY:
This research was undertaken to examine the role of marketing planning in the achievement of an organization objective, using Emenite Company Nigeria limited, Enugu. This research was conducted within Enugu metropolis on Emenite Staffs and some prominent customers.
1.7 DEFINITION PLANNING: