ROLE OF PURCHASING IN QUALITY DETERMINATION AND CONTROL IN AN ORGANIZATION

ROLE OF PURCHASING IN QUALITY DETERMINATION AND CONTROL IN AN ORGANIZATION

ABSTRACT

This project work is discussed the role of purchasing in quality determination.  Chapter one deals with the introductory part of the project, it also touched the backg0orund of study, statement of problem, objective of study, scope of the study etc.
Chapter two discusses the literature review, which dealt with the definition of purchasing role in an organization and how quality is determined in an organization. Chapter tree went into the research methodology, discussing the sources of data, sample size and others. Chapter four emphasized an the data presentation analysis and interpretation, it also touched the test of hypothesis.
Chapter five is the last chapter. It discussed the summary of findings, conclusions, recommendations and also the areas of further research.

CHAPTER ONE

1.0 INTRODUCTION
purchasing is a managerial function with the main aim of obtaining the right quality of material in the right quantity at the right time from the right source and at the right price. These must be done in the most economic manner so as to off value for money.
The determination of quality is where the purchasing department have a vital role to play.
Buyers have a management right and responsibility to challenge specified quality standards where they consider them to be unrealistic, but have not right to change them without consulting the designer or the user or the customer where there is need. To change means to request for a consideration of the quality stipulation in relation to cost availability and reliability of the item.
Purchasing can also contribute in determining quality in many ways.
(a) It can be a member of [committee concern with specifying needs.
(b) It can advice on cost and can suggest alternative materials
(c) It can advice an availability of material to specified quality and on continuous basis.
(d) Purchasing can also advice on the suitability of item requisitioned for particular purpose.

1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY
The Anambra motor manufacturing company plc was established in July 1980 by the Federal government of Nigeria in conjunction with over government and other states, such as Anambra, Rivers, Imo as well as private individuals who owns shared in the company. The first managing director was Mr. Hoh, while the first chairman was sir Joe Nwankwo. The objective of the company was to produce Benz (MB) trucks and buses. But recently ANAMMCO as it was fondly called also diversified into the production of uniquely specified vehicles like price fighting vehicles and refuse disposal vehicles, troop carriers, billion vans etc.
The company has create jobs for a lot of unemployed people in the state and the country at large Some of the company’s greatest problems includes the managing of forcing exchange allocation, the popularly known as tokunbo or Belgium, which large cheaper than Mercedes Benz (MB) vehicles, the stingests of economic measures to cope with and finally the global economic melt down.
In fact, purchasing objectives have originally been seen as the procurement of goods and services in the right quality, in the right quantity, at the right time from the right sources and at the right price. Especially in the manufacturing industry which are receiving more attention than before all in a bid to avoid waste arising from wrong purchasing.
In this context, quality, quantity, source, time and price are of prime importance because quality is fundamental. In other words, price are determined when the issue of quality, time and source had been ascertained. There some factors to be considered when a firm wants to keep its specification afloat. First is to decide and state in simple but clear terms, what exactly is needed or required taken into consideration the intended application must have gotten the purchaser or specification as required without unnecessary alteration tosuit its suppliers. Secondly, a good specification must be correctly written to suppliers. It therefore becomes necessary that the chosen supplier should be informed of the specification the company wants.

ROLE OF PURCHASING IN QUALITY DETERMINATION AND CONTROL IN AN ORGANIZATION