Investigate and identify the factors affecting the quality cost management in the automotive industry

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Rozita Hadavand Ahmadi 1
Reza Ehtesham Rasi 2
1 M.A. Industrial Management, Tehran Central branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
2 Assistant professor of Industrial Managemnt, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran.
Abstract
In the automotive industry quality costs has been important and recognizing the need for quality and cost control and cost its impact on today's competitive market are very important. A more detailed understanding of factors influencing quality costs can take steps in order to control and reduce these costs. Evaluation and analyzing quality costs are leverage for reduction costs of companies, in order to identify the main sources of costs to achieve a certain level of quality. Obviously, this tool of quality management techniques improve and enhance the quality and finally with benefits that will follow, the Position of firms in competitive markets stronger and will improve. Main objective of this article is to recognition the importance of finance and accounting knowledge for mangers especially senior managers in automotive industries for reduction more quality costs.
Keywords
Quality
quality control
quality costs
preventice costs
inspection cost
and defect cost