Effects of Supplier Development Programs on Procurement Performance of Tea Factories in Nyamira County, Kenya

Abstract

This study was an attempt to establish the effect of supplier development programs on procurement performance in tea factories managed by Kenya Tea Development Agency in Nyamira County. A total of 150 respondents were targeted from four departments namely: procurement, finance, administration and marketing. Stratified random sampling was used to get the target population. And out of the target population 135 respondent's participated. A questionnaire was used in data collection. And analysis was done using statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) version 17 because it is comprehensive system of analysing data and can take data from many different types of files and use them to generate descriptive statistics and tabulated reports .data was presented in descriptive form supported by frequency counts and percentages. From the research study it was concluded that supplier training, information flow, financial assistance and technical support enhance procurement performance.  From the findings the following recommendations of the research were made: there is need to align the information flow to supplier development policy and the need to have supplier treatment policy put in place. The following areas were considered for further research: state of information flow in tea factories, professionalism in procurement department and adoption of ICT in enhancing supplier development in government institutions.