The Effect of Supply Chain Management and Quality Management Assurance Case Study: Uganda Bureau of Statistics (Ubos)

Declaration

Approval

Dedication

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

List of tables

List of figures

Abstract

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Statement of the Problem

1.3 Purpose of the study

1.4 Objectives of the study

1.5 Research Questions

1.6 Scope of the study

1.7 Significance of the study

1.8 Conceptual Framework

CHAPTER TWO

LITERATURE REVIEW

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Introduction 7

Key Concepts of Supply Chain Management and Quality Assurance 8

Goals of Supply Chain Management

2.4 Types of Supply Chain Management

2.5 Classification of Supply Chain

2.6 Characteristics of Supply Chain Management

2.7 Activities in Supply Chain Management

2.8 The Key Supply Chain Process

2.9 Quality Assurance

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CHAPTER THREE

METHODOLOGY

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Research design

3.3 Survey Population

3.4 Sampling

3.5 Sources of Data

3.6 Data Collection Instruments

3.7 Data Processing and Analysis

3.8 Data Analysis

3.9 Limitations of the study

CHAPTER FOUR

PRESENTATION OF RESUl TS AND DISCUSSION

4.1 Introduction

4.2 General Information of the Distributed Questionnaires

4.1 Background information

4.2 Motivation strategies

4.3 Impacts/ effects of motivation on staff performance

4.4 Challenges facing motivation in SBU city branch

4.5 Conclusion

CHAPTER FIVE

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SUMMARY, OF THE FINDINGS CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

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5.2 Summary of the Findings

5.3 Conclusion

5.4 Recommendations

5.5 Areas for further Research

References

APPENDICES

Appendix 1: Questionnaires

ABSTRACT The research study was conducted to find out the effect of supply chain management on quality assurance in an organization, taking a case study of UBOS Headquarters. The study was to examine the effect supply chain management on quality of the products or service results in UBOS organization. It had the following specific objectives; (i) Examine the causes of poor flows of funds from government to donors; (ii) Identify whether there is SCM at UBOS; (iii) Identify the process involved in the SCM to suggest relevant solutions that can address the challenges and short comings of SCM at UBOS. Different methods were used to collect data; these included questionnaires, interview guides and observation. These were later edited, coded, classified, tabulated, and analyzed. The sample population was selected using stratified sampling. According to the research, the findings reveal that the staff in the organization understands the importance of SCM in relation to quality assurance and performance of the organization. The researcher then recommended the companies can improve their competitive advantage maintaining continuous supply chain. Management should lay foundation for increasing on income to produce additional products or services. Management should also streamline financial management and administrative systems and procedures to meet the requirement of basket funding modalities.