AN ASSESSMENT OF PURCHASING PRACTICE AND ITS RELATED CHALLENGES: A CASE OF ILU ABA BORA AND BUNO BEDELE ZONE FINANCE AND ECONOMIC COOPERATION OFFICE

Gerema Alemayehu

Gerema Alemayehu Lecturer & HOD, Department of Management, FBE, Mettu University, Mettu, Ethiopia.

Keywords: Purchasing, Purchasing Methods, Buyer and Supplier

Abstract

The basic aim of conducting this research was to assess the purchasing practice and its related challenges in the case of Ilu Aba Bora and Buno Bedele Zone finance and economic cooperation office. . Purchasing is the management of the purchase process, which includes deciding which vender to use negotiating contract and deciding whether to buy the product. The organization under study was faced a lot of challenges in its purchasing practice. The research design that the researcher used for this study was descriptive type of research design and censes sampling techniques was used. In this study researcher used both primary and secondary source of data and the primary data obtained by using self-administer questionnaires by using open ended question and close ended question and the secondary data were collected from both published and unpublished documents such as books find within the library and written document of the organization under study.

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