DETERMINANTS OF PROCUREMENT PERFORMANCE AMONG PHARMACEUTICAL MANUFACTURING FIRMS IN NAIROBI COUNTY, KENYA
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This study sought to examine the determinants of procurement performance in pharmaceutical manufacturing firms based in Nairobi City County, Kenya. The specific objectives of the study were to assess the effect of purchasing process and financial capacity. The study involved 150 employees. Questionnaires were used as the main data collection instruments. Descriptive statistics was used and aided by Statistical Package for Social Scientists (SPSS) to compute percentages of respondents’ answers. It was notable that there existed a strong positive relationship between the indepedent variables and depedent variable. This implied that these variables were very significant and they therefore needed to be considered in any effort to boost procurement perfomanace among pharmaceutical manufacturing firms. Based on the study findings, the study concluded that procurement performance among pharmaceutical manufacturing firms was affected by purchasing process and financial capacity as major factors that mostly affect procurement performance among pharmaceutical manufacturing firms in Kenya. The study was a milestone for further research in the field of procurement performance in pharmaceutical manufacturing firms in Africa and particularly in Kenya. The findings demonstrated the important factors to procurement performance in pharmaceutical manufacturing firms to include; purchasing process and financial capacity. The current study should therefore be expanded further in future in order to establish the determinants of procurement performance in pharmaceutical manufacturing firms. Existing literature indicates that as a future avenue of research, there is need to undertake similar research in other manufacturing firms in Kenya and other countries in order to establish whether the explored factors can be generalized to affect procurement performance in pharmaceutical manufacturing firms.
Key Words: Purchasing Process, Financial Capacity, Procurement Performance
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