Week 2 Discussion Board #1

Discussion Board #1 -- Organizational Status of Supplier Management

Report on the structure of an organization.

Provide a discussion which includes the following (do not provide a list with short answers).

1. Review your organization's structure health care about Finance, Purchasing, Supplier Management, Quality, and Operations/Production.

2. Provide a chart if available of the functions (no names please and no proprietary info.

3. Provide a process sequence/interaction chart if available or describe it.

4. Describe the organization and how supplier management fits into it. For supplier management/ supplier quality, identity responsibilities (no names, simply describe "the position" which holds the responsibility for the following.

5. Identifying purchasing information such as specification and quality requirements flowed down by customer, industry requirements, and or internal quality requirements for product or service quality.

6. Approval of Purchase orders

7. Evaluation of supplier performance

8. Disapproval of suppliers

9. Receiving/inspection and approval of incoming product

10. Supplier quality issues (SCARS).