Procurement is dealt with in Product quality management in the agile methodology

The Quality Management Challenge
There are many organizations today are stressed to establish a useful product quality management. Obviously, there are different locations, business units, and departments use separate processes to solve product deficiencies. Lifecycle can improve product quality management in the manufacturing and services. Agile Product Quality Management provides businesses to extend enterprise where teams dynamically update, access, and analyzes information about product quality from internal to external departments, customers, and suppliers. (TechWell, 2011).
Quality Assurance in procurement
Quality assurance is a wide-ranging concept which covers all matters that influences on the quality of a product to ensure products are of the highest quality. There are several factors in the Quality assurance in procurement such as, “the implementation of a quality assurance system in procurement, including systems for prequalification, storage and distribution, may affect costs” (Thomas, David, Niranjan, & Lombe, 2012). Nevertheless, the benefit of ensuring quality is reducing the possible losses caused by the purchase and supply of substandard products or without testing the products. To ensure the highest quality in the product, the products needs to have a pre qualified through manufacturers, purchasing, distribution that may involve by offices, and procurement agencies, but to get more support from the offices that account for quality assurance is crucial. Consistencies in the all activities in the procurement processes need more of the efficient standard procedures for approach to ensure the highest quality of Quality Assurance in procurement. Most of the time, some of the activities in each contract may be contr...

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...the opportunity to act in order to correct the situation. They can either repair the product, which consider a short-term remedial action, or “take long-term preventive action by adjusting the engineering processes to resolve and eliminate deficiencies” (TechWell, agile connection, 2011)

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Thomas, M., David, L., Niranjan, K., & Lombe, K. (2012, April). Quality Assurance in Procurement. Model Quality Assurance System for Procurement Agencies , p. 9.