The document discusses the importance of quality control for purchased products. It outlines several key aspects of evaluating suppliers and ensuring quality, including: 1) Evaluating suppliers is important to ensure the best suppliers are available and meet requirements. This involves assessing suppliers on factors like capacity, financials, processes, and performance. 2) Purchasing departments must set clear conditions of supply in writing with vendors regarding quality standards, testing procedures, sample requirements, and acceptance inspection methods. 3) Quality control organizations should be involved in procurement to analyze competing products and verify that purchases meet the company's overall requirements for quality.

1. Control on purchased product
UNIT-1, (Chapter-2)

2. Introduction
 The organization need to buy variety of raw materials and
products for further processing or consumption. The quality of
product is important here because quality effects the quality of
end product.
 The physical properties of metal determine the durability of end
product. Thus, control of purchased product is essential.
 All manufacturing companies and specially govt. department or
service organization has to have a special organization for quality
assurance of purchased product.
 Procurement of new product should be done through the quality
control organization which can make comparative evaluation of
product which can meet the general requirement of the company
by analyzing of the techniques specifications of competing
products.

3. Evaluation of suppliers
 It is a process of evaluating and approving potential supplier
by factual and measurable assessment to ensure best-in class
suppliers is available for use.
 It is applied to current suppliers to measure and monitor
their performance for reducing costs, reducing risks and
continuous improvement.
 Evaluation process:- it is a continual process with in
purchasing department. It is using five steps .it can take the
form of interview and or site visit. It include approval of
various aspects of supplier business including capacity,
financials, organizational structure and process and
performance. Based on this a supplier can be approved or not
approved.

4.  Benefits and drawbacks:- provide high standards of product
and service, Identify and remove hidden cost ,motivate
suppliers
challenges- gathering meaningful and relevant information
,working on continuous improvement
 Cost effectiveness:- by cross functional and cross company
teams, reducing no's of suppliers, by using required method
for reflecting accurate total cost.

5. Capacity verification
 Management commitment
 Customer focus
 Quality policy
 Provision of resources
 Assignment of personnel
 Training, Awareness and Competency
 Facilities
 Work environment
 Planning of realization processes

6. Development of sources
 To ensure that quality of a product at a acceptable level the
quality engineers can set up necessary control.
 The purchase department places the order on the vendor
who offers the most advantageous terms.
 Condition of supply must be put down in writing and clearly
explained to the vendor and as submission of preproduction
sample or a particular type of the packaging etc.

7. Following details should be considered:-
i. Any reference to the institutional, national or international
standard specification should clearly mentioned in a particular year
ii. The procedure of material test pieces should be spelt out in detail.
iii. If preproduction sample is required then sample should known to
the vendor.
iv. Concession on certain quality requirements should be clearly
defined
v. Method of acceptance inspection should be clearly to the vendors
with regard to sampling inspection.
vi. Product nomenclature, part number and other details should be
specified.
vii. Warranty clauses and procedure for claims should be clarified in
detail.