Assessment of Procurement Management Practice on Project Success: the Case of Ethiotelecom Construction Projects
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2023-07
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Addis Ababa University
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This project studies assess the procurement management practice on project success the case of Ethiotelecom construction projects. To address this objective census survey were employed to participate 70 staffs of supply chain division from four departments that have direct relation with procurement of construction projects for out sourced projects or construction materials for in house projects to fill structured questionnaire and interview was held with 12 site engineers/supervisors and 2 managers that have involved as a commodity team in procurement process. Descriptive research design was employed to analyze and assess supply relation practice, supplier sourcing and selecting practice, contract administration practice, payment modality practice and inventory management practice from the collected data and draw conclusion. The major gap that this study found and needs improvement for advanced procurement management process are lack of consistent periodic training for newly hired and transferred staffs, latest market research and analysis to keep up with the current market, few attention is given for updating the procurement status to the project team on ERP, not checking the past experience of sellers accordingly while selecting supplier, risk related to contract administration is not considered, poor in organizing document of success and failure audit report and lesson learned for future procurement and due attention is not giving for updating on hand balance in inventory on regular basis. Thus, the researcher recommends that due attention needs to be given for those pointed out major gaps to improve the procurement management practice to enhance the project success