ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses control of external provision and describes the role of management team, plant manager, purchasing manager, and QA manager. The responsibility of the management team is: to identify the requirements for outsourcing processes, products and services and identify resource needs. The responsibility of the purchasing manager is: to identify external providers for the provision of necessary processes, products and services, communicate with external providers, and maintain a list of approved suppliers. Activities of external providers that are related to ABCCL’s business activities are included in the Integrated Quality, Food Safety and Environmental management system. The procedures include: approval of suppliers, purchasing information, purchasing, purchasing it, purchasing engineering items, offering contracts, inward goods receipt, and inward goods inspection.
