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How do you control employees esp those involved in procurement process, from indulging in corrupt practices? Just mention a few most effective ones.

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تم إضافة السؤال من قبل Nadeem Asghar , Supply Chain Consultant/Trainer , Independent Practitioner
تاريخ النشر: 2016/10/27
Md Fazlur Rahman
من قبل Md Fazlur Rahman , Procurement Specialist , Engineering and Planning Consultants Ltd

Thanks for invitation.

There are several aspects and ways to  reduce corruption. A few points are noted below.

Need analysis and quantification. : What is the appropriate item we need to purchase  and how much based on current stock and need forecasting. Specifically, for govt. sector purchasing this is quite important.

Ensuring Transparency:

1. Issuance of bid document to all qualified /enlisted suppliers

2. Receipt  and opening of bid in public in presence of all intending bidders and bid opening staffs( one office staff shall be from department other than procurement)

3. Signing of  receipted bid in all pages by bid opening staffs.

4 To read out bid price and other a few  relevant info. aloud in presence of bidders.

5. For bid tabulation and evaluation, at lest 2 staff members shall be involved

6. Sharing of purchase order with all relevant staff ( Store keeper, Finance Officer, User department)

7. Auditing of procurement files on yearly basis through independent auditors( may be from in-house or outsourced)

Efficiency and effectiveness: To get feedback from user sections whether they received the goods in time and whether that served the purpose effectively. 

 

Elke Woofter
من قبل Elke Woofter , Project Assistant , American Technical Associates

There are many good answers given/copied from the internet ... I only can say, it is tricky and each buyer needs to have good ethicts, integrity and being honest ...

Audits are good, but not every vendor  used more often is subject to this, aspecially if he/she is giving good pricing, quality and delivery on time ... with other words good service.

 

It is very clear if some one favors a vendor which has a high %ig of anual "kick backs", has a bad track record of on time delivery or pricing is constantly an issue... that there are other things in play than having the best interest of a company in mind.

The question is what are you doing if your Manager orders you to place more orders from such a vendor? I have told my Manager the problems in hand and found myself loosing the battle... this was one reason to find myself an other job....

 

Nor is it honest/proper to offer some one a "get rich scam" ...posing as a vendor to sell their company an item, which they could purchase for a better price ...

This violates my ethics and integrity ... quite frankly this turns my stomach...

I am very disapointed finding people with no honor, ethics and intregrity on this site proposing such a thing to me

 

osama khalifa
من قبل osama khalifa , sourcing manager , Toshiba

1. Purchase from a reliable companies in the market

2. Proceed purchasing according to official quotations

3. Make allocation between stuff periodically

4. Make periodic meetings with your suppliers to negotiate on cost

5. Update purchasing scheme on system like SAP or other system

Hussain  Alshagrawi
من قبل Hussain Alshagrawi , Freelancer Consultant , Freelancer

To be able to prevent corruption in Procurement, one needs to ask himself, why some people are apt to corruption?

Your specific and accurate answers will lead you to the ways to prevent people from indulging in corrupt practice.

Below, I can list some of the ways, which I think can help in eliminating such behavior in Procurement or any other similar areas in companies:

-         > Selecting the wright employees (using systematic  approach, interview teams, comprehensive cv/history    analysis, HR expertise, personal instinct etc.)  

-         > Increasing Ethics awareness among employees

-         > Strong & Strict discipline rules in company

-         > Controlled and effective Policy & procedures

-        > Good Motivation & Incentive system

-         > Strict Authority Matrix (taking in consideration the speed    of  Procurement Process) 

-   > Eliminations or Severe Reduction in cash handling (Petty    Cash Purchases) thru outsourcing of acquisition items

 

-         > In addition to professional & ethical oriented      vendors/contractors

jasmina malnar
من قبل jasmina malnar , Head of Marketing and Indirect Procurement , Hrvatski telekom

In addition to implementing procurement principles such as:

- transparency,

- separation of duties

- 4 eye principle

and prescribing regulated process with or without sourcing tool use (tools are great for transparency!) via procurement manual, regular audits and periodic shuffling between categories (and internal users) should do the trick.

Thanx for the invite ;)

Terrence Walmsley
من قبل Terrence Walmsley , Owner , The Awesome Group of Companies

The simple answer, delegation limits and random audits.

If your purchasing is conducted on a computer, there is in most cases, the option of setting up staff profiles and this will include limits to spend. Conduct random audits so that the staffs are aware that their actions are accountable. 

مستخدم محذوف‎
من قبل مستخدم محذوف‎

corruption in procurement can be minimized by adopting following measures - (a) insist in minimum three quotations for technical and commercial comparisons, all three should be comparable standards of vendors and acceptable as per track record (b) regular audits (c) technical comparison should be preferably concluded by technical department and should be very professional and intensive to ensure strict compliance to specifications, quality, international standards, fast response time for non conformance, procedure for easy claim of warranty as per written site report with comments whereas commercial comparison  should be left to the procurement and top management (d) maintain an approved list of vendors and blacklist if any vendor found guilty (e) better to divide and rotate vendors among procurement department junior staff; (f) all employees should sign code of conduct and refrain from taking gifts and gratitude of any kind from vendors considering it as a serious offense which can lead to termination; (g) penalizing staff found guilty of misconduct

Ghulam Farid
من قبل Ghulam Farid , Contracts Officer , Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Petroleum Operations (ADCO)

Apply code of conduct both end ( suppliers and buyers) Strict your procurement procedures After commercial opening do not allow negotiations, if needs, get higher mngt aporoval Conduct internal and external audits in routine There should b some third person from other dept . in all meetings wth bidders. Shift contracts administeration responsibilitiesbon end user

Khalid Abuzaid
من قبل Khalid Abuzaid , Supply Chain Director , National Integrated Industries Complex – Jordan

- You have to have right and strict procedures and policy

- You should talk to them for their social lives 

- You should mentor them regularly and keep watching how they execute their job, are they follow the procedures all the time

- You should audit randomly and regularly

- You should keep them satisfied as much as you can and encourage them   

umesh Deshpande
من قبل umesh Deshpande , Plant Head , Hydraulic Manifolds India Pvt. Ltd

1. The very first is, the employee should be well paid ( appropriately paid) for his/her job so that he would always think that if he is getting a best deal, he should give the best deal 

2. Over to it, the working culture/ teammates/ Boss should always give him/her a feel that he is a trustworthy and very much important for organisational growth

3. 'Zero' based costing is another fundamental, which is very much useful for getting exact need and its tentative cost... this also gives a feel to the purchaser that everybody in an organisation knows about its cost/ supplier/ quality so on so forth...

 

Mohamed Eissa
من قبل Mohamed Eissa , Procurement Manager , LG electronics , Egypt

To prevent such un proper practice:

1- First company must has clear rules like code of ethics standard all employee must follow, because sometime maybe procurement members use un proper ways to push supplier to reduce price.

2- Avoid single point of decision, always must have multi approval line start from employee then direct mangers, .....

3- Adapt purchasing strategy depend of deep analysis to material cost like cost tables to define base price then procurement team use as reference.

 

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