QUALITY DETERMINATION AND CONTROL THE CONTRIBUTION OF PURCHASING
ABSTRACT
The study was investigated on “Quality Determination and control the contribution of purchasing” A case study of star paper mills limited Aba for the purpose of quick reading and comprehension, the study report been classified into five chapters.
The first chapter, take of with introduction which present the general overview of the study, statement of problems, purpose of study, research question, significance of the study, statement of hypothesis, scope of study, limitation of the study and definition of terms. Chapter two deals with the literature review of the study with emphasis on the research topic. Basic contribution of purchasing in an organisation sourcing and selection of suppliers following-up and Expedition / progressing the order determination of Quality, Determination of price, Acceptance of goods ordered and payment for them, the contributions of purchasing to quality, cost consideration in quality management responsibility of purchasing in quality determination.
Chapter three presents the methodology employed the research design, the questionnaires design, sampling and selection of respondents, other methods used, survery observation, data sources, secondary data, primary data , data analysis method.
Chapter four makes the presentation analysis of data collected and testing of hypothesis.
Chapter five summarized the finding made recommendation and concluded the research work.
The aim of this research is to develop frame work considering the purchasing contribution in an industries. Most industries will find that research work very useful and believe that this work will be beneficial and equally make an interesting reading to any one who can look into it.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 GENERAL OVERVIEW OF THE STUDY
In every organization no matter how small the management will not waste time and efforts in making or arranging for the supply of the wrong quality goods. This is one of the reason procurement in most organization, more especially in the manufacturing industries; they are receiving more attention than before, all in the bid to avoid waste arising from wrong purchase
In fact purchasing objective have originally been seen as the procurement of goods and services of the right quantity and at the time, from the right suppliers at the right price price was put last, not because of its importance. It would necessarily be the least, but because it would often depend on the rest of the package, the specification, the quality, and so on quality was put first because it is fundamental.
In absolute terms quality is function of excellence intrinsic values or grade as determined overtime by society generally or by designated bodies in specialized fields. In business and industrial activities generally quality is first defined as terms of relationship to a need or a function, in these cases, the important thing is not the obsolete quality of an item. but the suitability of the items is satisfying the particular need at hand.
Quality can be also defined very simple as conformance with the stated requirements. Buyer responsibility and a supplier’s job is to deliver materials whose quality conforms satisfactorily with specification requirement.
The contribution of purchasing in determining quality is normally expended as the procurement of the right quality material on the right quantity, at the right time from the right suppliers at the right source and at the most economical manner so as to offer value for money.
In this second consideration, the contribution of purchasing department is clearly defend as having the contribution for responsibility for the determination of economic consideration for quality. This Means that the purchasing should try to determine whether the selected material can be purchasing on a timely and regular basis and from alternative source on competitive basis.
According to Oyeoku (2001:112) a question may be asked if quality can be determine by one function those literate will determine the standard perhaps to the detriment of the others. It follows therefore that quality must be the responsibility for every one in the company for instance design, production, purchasing department and sales department and also users department. But generally, to ensure that goods supplied are 100% right quality goods.
The following factors must be born in mind.
The first factor to be considered must be decided and stated in a simple but clear form what exactly is needed or required .Taking in to consideration the indented application this means that the purchasing or the organization must have gotten a clear specification in addition the suppliers should follow the specification as required without unnecessary alteration to suit him (suppliers). This will go a long way in avoiding production stoppage redundancy marketing problem and too much rejects etc which are associated with wrong supply of materials.
