Authors: 1Eric Boafo Dadzie, 2Renas Ayebono Atanga, & 3Eric Ekow T. Ghansah (Ph.D. Candidate)
1Assistance Procurement Officer & 2&3Lecturer
1&3Takoradi Polytechnic, & 2Ghana Institute of Management & Public Administration
Email: boafodadziee@yahoo.com
Abstract
Outsourcing has indeed become part and parcel of many organizations in order to survive competition. Outsourcing therefore helps such organizations to be able to focus much on their core activities so as to give the non-core activities to third party suppliers. The study was therefore geared towards looking at how to assess the outsourcing activity in the production industry. The study was to establish the outsourcing activity that is carried out at WAMCO. Other objectives were to find out the benefits associated with outsourcing at WAMCO; to find out the challenges associated with outsourcing at WAMCO; to ascertain how the outsourcing improves the working conditions of employees at WAMCO; to identify on some of the measures to be put in place to ensure effective and efficient outsourcing activity at WAMCO. The analysis from the data collected showed that the personnel in West African Mills Company did not have full knowledge about the outsourcing and implementation could not be without problems. The Administrator in WAMCO had heard the promulgation of the outsourcing. Details of the document were however not known since no training programme had been held to sensitize them. The little that the workers knew about the outsourcing was heard in the media and seminars. In view of this, it was only a few officers in the management position who were a little abreast with the outsourcing.
Keywords: Outsourcing Activity, Production Industry, Procurement Contract, Procurement Outsourcing
