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stores management

Stores management Introduction After efficient purchasing, receipt and inspection of materials, the next important step in materials control system is the storage of materials. The purchased materials are to be stored in stores/warehouse and issued for production as and when they are required. Store keeping aims at safeguarding the materials from all kinds of loss and damage and ensuring smooth and continuous flow of materials into the production activity. Meaning of stores management Dictionary defines stores as a building where goods are kept. Stores are defined as supply of goods and storage is defined as the act of storing the goods. Some people use the term storekeeping which has the same meaning as storage. Storekeeping is the process of storing raw materials or goods under the supervision of a person called storekeeper or store controller. The raw materials are called “stores” and the finished goods are called “stock”. The place where these materials are stored is called “

quality assurance

Quality assurance Introduction The quality is a joint effort of an organization. Everyone, directly or indirectly involved in the production plays a particular role in quality. Therefore, it is important for a production system to ensure that the procedure or techniques used for producing the quality product are effective and are followed carefully and dutifully. This process of ensuring the techniques is performed by the quality assurance. Quality assurance It is also defined as collection of all the planned and systematic actions. These actions are required to provide the confidence that the product will satisfy all the requirements. Concept of the quality assurance is equally important to both the consumers. Definition According to ANSI/ASQC “Quality assurance are all those planned and systematic actions necessary to provide confidence that a product or service will satisfy given need.” Management actions for assurance of quality Quality assurance is a considered as the