Assessment of project procurement Management practices in case of Ethiopian airlines
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2019-07
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Addis Ababa University
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The purpose of this study is to assess the project procurement practices in case of Ethiopian Airlines with alignment of project procurement management knowledge area. To address this objective descriptive research design was employed to analyze the data from structured questionnaire and interview. A Non-probability, judgment/purposive sampling, was employed to select 30 respondents of the questionnaires. And interview was also conducted with the procurement office manager and project manager. The result of the study evident that, Risk Involved with procurement, Cost Estimation, considering Expert Judgment while planning, and Market research and development has been found as a major gap of procurement practices. On the other hand, the loop with regard to procurement conducting is depicted from the respondents that it is merely practiced to select sellers based on their past experience and no consistent pre-meeting with suppliers. Lastly on monitoring phase,few attentions are given to monitor and control whether procured goods and services are delivered in time in regular pattern, the risks faced while procuring rarely taken in to consideration while monitoring and controlling. Based on the findings, the researcher recommended that intensive regular training on the principles of project management,give due attention on expert judgment, cost estimation, market research & development as well as considering past experience of sellers.Monitoring and controlling should be made for procured goods, to ensure that they are delivered or executed as planned.
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Project Procurement Management, Procurement Planning, Procurement Conducting, Procurement Control and Closing