Quality control and inspection of purchased materials (aears study of evans medical plc, lagos)

Thesis Overview

<p> </p><p>INTRODUCTION</p><p><strong>1.1 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</strong><strong>BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY</strong></p><p>Quality control and inspection of materials is becoming of vital importance in every pharmaceutical industry today become of the hung sum of money involved in the procurement of materials.</p><p>It is &nbsp; known that over half of every pharmaceutical company’s budget is on materials. It is therefore necessary that materials which meet the quality required are purchased.</p><p>The buyer, as a specialist, must function in one of the more sensitive areas of quality control and inspection since he represents his organization in the definition, negotiation and implementation of a legal contact- the purchase order.</p><p>Quality is a basic concept in modern buying and selling and is taking a high degree of priority in materials requirement.</p><p>In many application, the performance specification is very rigid and call for careful quality control and by inspection by both the buying company and the selling company.</p><p>Quality control and inspection of materials includes among other things</p><p>1. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The organization and procedure through which a producer measures and control the quality of the product manufactured.</p><p>2. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The on-site checking of the manufacturing process.</p><p>3. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The inspection and acceptance of the party materials and spares.</p><p>4. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The assurance of compliance on the part of the supplier with specified quality levels.</p><p>5. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Co-operating with vendors on quality problems.</p><p>6. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The handing of rejects materials</p><p>7. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The final and accounting aspect of rejection.</p><p>Quality control and inspection is the responsibility to some degree of the user department in an organization.</p><p>However, the buyer has the basic responsibility of adequately and</p><p>accountably specifying the quality requirement of materials purchased especially when material concerted are not too technical in nature.</p><p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; In turn, the supplier has the basic responsibility of satisfying the quality requirement in conformance with the mutual agreed price and time schedule.</p><p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The British standard institution defines quality more precisely as:- “The totality of features and characteristics of a product or services that bear on its ability to satisfy a given need”.</p><p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Deniability is an extension of quality it the ability of an item to perform required function under stated conditions for a stated period of item. Reliability can be expressed as a probability that a product will operate satisfactorily for the stated period of time.</p> <br><p></p>