The quality of work performed in incoming-material control applies both to effectiveness in screening out poor quality and to effectiveness in being able o higher percentages 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 per formed. 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