The quality of work performed in incoming-material control applies both to effectiveness in screening out poor quality and to effectiveness in being able to recover increasingly higher percentages of vendor-associated losses. this recovery percentage is as low as 15 percent in some businesses and the total outside vendor-attributable losses as high as several hundred thousand dollars million dollars a year. This is another important measure for increasing profits through improvement of the effectiveness of work performed. The better the job done by the total quality program in the defect-prevention and
after-the-fact phases of incoming control, the greater the probability that Purchasing will be able to recover higher percentages of vendor