INFLUENCE OF PROCUREMENT PRACTICES ON PROCUREMENT FUNCTIONS IN STATE CORPORATIONS IN KENYA
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The study sought to establish the influence of procurement practices on procurement functions in the state corporations in Kenya. Descriptive research design was used for the study. The target population for this study was 187 supply chain officers drawn from different state corporations in Kenya. Primary data was collected using questionnaires. The quantitative data was entered into SPSS for analysis. Both quantitative and qualitative data analysis techniques were used. It was notable that there exists a relationship between indepedent variables and depedent variable.This implied that these variables were very significant and they therefore need to be considered in any effort to boost procurement functions in state corporations in Kenya.The study recommends that relevant staffs to procurement be involved in the process of plan preparation. The study recommended that in order for the state corporations to improve on contract management, the state corporations must place emphasis on improving the quality of contract documentation. The study recommended that plans are not static and that preparation of annual procurement plans should be participatory, frequently reviewed so as to improve on the corporations procurement performance. Resource allocation is an important aspect in determining how effective the whole process will be. This calls for public entities to try and balance resource allocation and even allocate more funds to procurement departments. This is because procurement is the base of all other departments and its success percolates down to the whole organization. It’s imperative that as procurement resource allocation planning should be done in a manner that it takes care of the pursued strategic fit in the public entities.
Key Words: procurement planning, contract management, resource allocation, outsourcing practices, procurement functions
CITATION: Olick, B. B. O., & Moronge, M. (2019). Influence of procurement practices on procurement functions in state corporations in Kenya. The Strategic Journal of Business & Change Management, 6 (2), 2040 – 2051.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.61426/sjbcm.v6i2.1237
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