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What should be the ultimate target of a buyer? low cost or best quality?

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Question ajoutée par Jyoti Negi , Sr. Executive , Lifepharma FZE
Date de publication: 2013/09/30
Ahmad Ataya
par Ahmad Ataya , Purchasing Manager and Materials Control , Drake and Scull International

thers iis no ultimate target for any item when we need to buy any item the procedure will be depends on specification and quality request

Fazal Ebrahim Dawood
par Fazal Ebrahim Dawood , Chief Executive Officer , Stardist Ltd

You should be more specific about what you are buying. It makes a lot of difference if you are buying high tech equipment / medicines / textiles or FMCG. 

 

Cagdas Kardas
par Cagdas Kardas , Operations Director , Berlitz Corporation

You have to consider your constraints in order to answe this question correctly. Best quality has a price but do you really need best quality? Low cost items might have some quality problems which might increase your total cost of ownership and damage your company's bottom line figure.

So you need to optimize it depends on your needs.

amer jayyousi
par amer jayyousi , Business Development Consultant , freelance

depending on the item procured.

engineering and high tech. items  or usable jute bags .

i always stay with high quality at an acceptable cost.

more times than ever low quality ,low price items cost more in terms of cost analysis.

elfatih mohamed ali Ali
par elfatih mohamed ali Ali , Procurement and Logistic Officer , Sudanese Microfinance Development Facility SMDF

The  ultimate  Target of  is subject to the PR  requester   the PO is to follow the specification   set by the consignee in order to have the Service  in place regardless the low cost

Nadeem Asghar
par Nadeem Asghar , Supply Chain Consultant/Trainer , Independent Practitioner

As a general principal, there is always a trade-off between quality and price. The more you pay, the better you get. However, decision on this is required to be made prior to starting the actual purchase process.    

In fact, the buyer has an important task before going to market or floating RFP, and that is: to identify requirement in terms of specifications, quality, reliability, after sales service etc etc. The rest follows automatically, and you have to take the lowest priced offer only.

Mustafa Minhajuddin
par Mustafa Minhajuddin , Project Procurement Engineer , Setec TPI Consulting Engineers

Low Quality - Low Price, High Quality - High Price! This concept is a passé!  These days the competition is roaring and the High Quality products can be availed at Low Cost, provided one has the ability to negotiate strategically.

 

Usually in competitive bidding where two or more vendors are invited to quote, there will be a necessity of technical evaluation of the material or services offered by the bidder. Wherein, one may also need to research about the aftersales service and do the background check of the bidders.

 

 

The high quality of their offerings would probably be evident with the points awarded in the Technical Evaluation. Moving further, as there is a possibility of this vendor’s quote being on a higher side, one may need to compare these prices with the lowest and prepare a strategy to negotiate and get the prices down, if not lower, at least closer to the lowest quotation received. Thus, making the deal work in the best interest of the company.

Osama Mohamed Abdel Aziz
par Osama Mohamed Abdel Aziz , Procurement category manager - Admin & IT , Ezz steel

Answer varies according to the requester's  requirements

but in general a combination of both factors is required

Mohammad Jadaan
par Mohammad Jadaan , IT Director , Cyber-Tek Systems UG

professional Procurement / Purchaser should get the both low cost and best quality as a procedure and rule . but sure you have consider the value of project .

in some laxury projects like Hotels or resorts specifications will apear clearly about the brand and vendor so you can only follow the specs and get prices from short list vendors .

Ameya Pai Angle
par Ameya Pai Angle , Summer Intern (Purchase and Warehouse Management) , Indoco Remedies Ltd

Depends on what your motive is..

 

Low cost might make you buy in bulk and hence there could problem in logistics or warehousing. Or you might have to compromise on quality for which you would have to have strong reverse logistics chain.

 

Best quality might overshoot your budget and also contribution margin could be reduced drastically, but than there would be less repair or returns or recall which would save your support costs.

Ravshanbek Abdullaev
par Ravshanbek Abdullaev , Accountant , Fajr Al Mustaqbal General Trading LLC

Both cost and quality matter. So, without dropping the quality requirements, if a buyer achieves lower costs then that is the accomplishment of the buyer, that is his professionalism and expertise.  

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