PROPOSAL
This project topic centers an assessment of the impact of quality control to the attainment of cooperate objectives of manufacturing companies with a specific reference to Doyin investment Nigeria Limited, Ilorin. The significance of quality control to the attainment of cooperate objective of manufacturing companies cannot be over-emphasized. The project consists of five chapters as following. Chapter one of this project consist of introduction, historical background of Doyin investment Ltd, statement of the research problems, objectives of the study, significance of the study, scope of the study, limitation of the study, definition of terms. Chapter two consists of the literature review. Chapter three discuss about research methodology, research design used sources of data, instruments used for data collection, research population and sample size, sampling procedure employed, statistical techniques used in analyzing data, Chapter four deals with data presentation and analysis. Chapter five gives the summary of findings, conclusion, recommendations and references.
CHAPTER ONE
1.1 GENERAL
INTRODUCTION
It is important to note that quality control is an important
function.
It is so vital that it
helps an organization to have competitive edge over the competitors in the
market.
A company can
conveniently through quality has effective quality policy out-sales
competitors’ product in the market.
When we talk about
“quality” the definition most people have in mind is “high quality” which is
something describable concept, the word is Item used to mean superior quality,
but from purchasing angle the acceptable definition of quality is “totality of
feature and characteristics of product or service that bear on its- ability to
satisfy a given purpose.
“Quality control” in
purchasing angle means regulating manufacturing process in order to maintain
the required quality.
The management executive
is in an excellent position of their company’s profit that originates in the
area of quality. The researcher is interested in the topic, because quality is
everybody’s focus in an organization.
1.2 HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND OF DOYIN INVESTMENT NIGER1A LIMITED.
Doyin investment company formal known as the Global Soap and
Detergent Industry limited incorporated in October 1984 under the commerce and
industry act in 1986 the company is situated along Asa-Dam Road in Ilorin West
Local Government in Kwara State and the company specialized in production of
soap, extra power flash, clean and wash rite.
In 1985, all the plants
were received into the site and the process of installation commence immediately.
The commissioning of the industry was done towards the end of the year 1985,
the Global Soap and Detergent industry is an affiliate of Doyin Group of
Companies” which has it head office at Lagos, the man Doyin himself is an
indigene of Kwara state and the name of his home town is “Agbamu” he sited the industry
in the state capital so as to reduce unemployment in the state and outside the
state.
Some of the materials
used in producing are imported materials but
a lot of research is going on as for them to make use of local material
and such materials used include the following: blank crop, sodium syndicate etc
based on what is written down there is need to look into the organizational
structure.
The organizational
structure of Global Soap and Detergent can be said a situation where
subordinates are responsible to their superior officers. The top on the list is
the General Manager and he is the head of the industry and the sole
responsibility of the whole operations rests on lam, he gives order on any
important issue e.g. may be there is need to purchase capital requirement or if
they are to buy large quantity of material involving huge amount of money after
the general manager comes the technical manager under the technical manager is
engineering and administration, the technical stores, packaging and the clerks.
The production manager
also comes under the general manager and the report directly to him, under the
production, manager, we have
The raw material stores,
followed by purchasing store supervisor, clerks and the cleaners in the raw
material store, the component of raw materials kept there are:
- STPP
(Sodio Tropoli Fops tap)
- Sodium
syndicate
- Glue
- Blank
cap
- Blue
dye
- Perfume
All these materials are
kept in the raw materials store until they are needed, The STPP (SodioTropoli Fopsta
(O) is in a separate tank with we provision of tap as they are being dissolved
by water, some is passed to the next machine were the operations starts. The
sodium syndicate used to neutralize the acid of the detergent during the
production Glue, Blank Crop and caustic soda also part of the raw materials
used for production of the detergent and during this period the detergent is in
white colour, the blue dye white colour to blue and what is how it goes for
other soaps and detergent they produce. At the final stage the perfume is mixed
and it makes the detergent to give a passive odour.
Also under the General
Managers is the quality Control and under him, we have the preliminary design
and under the design comes the supervisor, the clerks and security. The quality
control manager in collaboration with design and engineering department works
on how chemical should be used, the system of packing, packaging, what type of
colour that will attract the customers, the dimension and hardness so that it
does not get spoilt any how. The quality control manager also hare some link
with the production department which have the purchasing under the department
and the area of how the right quality or materials purchased for organization.
Another department that
comes under the general manager is the finance department, the finance manager
report directly to the general manager on the financial aspect of the
organization. The financial department receives all relevant documents from
store such as Good receive which will note, all the document connected with
purchase of materials which will used in preparing the final budget of the organization.
Lastly, we have marketing
manager he also comes under the manager and he report directly to him in area
of promotion, market research, sales etc. The marketing managers have under him
market research internal and it section, sales and administration and clerks
most of the decisions taken in the organization comes from the management and
information is passed based on superior subordinate.
The organization chart of Global Soap and Detergent industry is shown below
ASSESSMENT OF THE IMPACT OF QUALITY CONTROL TO THE ATTAINMENT OF COOPERATE OBJECTIVES OF MANUFACTURING COMPANIES (A CASE STUDY OF DOYIN INVESTMENT NIGERIA LIMITED, ILORIN)
