Raw Material Procurement Research Articles

PERENCANAAN KEBUTUHAN BAHAN BAKU POT LESUNG DI UD. BANGKIT TIGA BERSAUDARA DENGAN MENGGUNAKAN METODE LOT SIZING

UD Bangkit Tiga Brothers is one of the SMEs engaged in the furniture manufacturing industry with antique products. The problem that occurs in this company is that it cannot estimate the exact number of orders for raw materials because the number of sales varies each period. So that every time you place an order, you sometimes exaggerate the product to be used as stock and save on ordering costs in the transportation section. At a certain time when there is a demand but the stock in the warehouse runs out so you have to reorder and excess orders for stock supplies. One solution that is applied to overcome this problem is the Lot Sizing method. By applying this method, the raw material procurement system can be identified by predicting the demand for raw materials and using the Lot Sizing method in order to obtain the optimum raw material procurement. Optimul forecasting results were obtained using the Exponential Smoothing method with a MAPE of 20.34%. The forecasting value obtained is 45.62 46 pcs in August 2022 with an accuracy value of 79.66% of the results then calculated using the Lot Sizing method. The results of the calculation of the Lot Sizing method obtained the optimal method, namely the Period Order Quantity (POQ) which is Rp. 58.130.923,-. The resulting difference with the value of the company is Rp. 4,217,240, - or 6.76%. From the figures obtained, it results in cost savings that are very profitable for the company.

The Story of the International Scientific Commission of the UISPP for Archaeometry of Pre- and Protohistoric Inorganic Artifacts, Materials and Technologies

The International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (UISPP), an organisation with over 90 years of history, includes all the fields and disciplines that contribute to the development of prehistory and protohistory. To achieve their goals, the UISPP organises periodically a world congress on prehistoric and protohistoric sciences. Based on proposals received, the general assembly decides on the creation of scientific commissions, following the advice of the executive committee of the UISPP. The main objective of these commissions is to promote and coordinate international research in a specific or specialised domain of the prehistoric and protohistoric sciences between each world congress. Based on the success and interest shown in a session of the 17th UISPP Congress, the need has arisen to create a new scientific commission in the field of archaeometry. This brief text describes the creation of this commission and its scientific activities to date. The commission aims at discussing and transmitting the archaeometric approaches to technologies in Prehistory and Protohistory concerning lithic technology, metallurgy, ceramics and glass making; gathering and organising the results, conclusions and circumstances of archaeometric case studies of artifacts; paying particular attention to production, procurement and characterisation of raw materials, and fabrication technologies; and discussing relevant interdisciplinary investigation methods and techniques.

A smartphone-based innovative approach to discriminate red pigments in roman frescoes mock-ups

• Frescoes replicas using red pigments were prepared to develop a smartphone-based methodological approach. • Colour properties were measured by spectrocolorimeter and smartphone. • Chemometric classificatory methods were used to identify red pigments colors. • Low classification errors were obtained employing LDA and SVC classifying methods. • A new and easy approach employing mobile phones to discriminate red pigments is presented. The characterization of red pigments in frescoes wall paintings has been of great interest for researchers to better understand raw material procurement dynamics, pigment receipts, stylistic evolution and to assess their conservation state. In this study a non-destructive colorimetric approach implementing a smartphone-based method was developed in order to be able to distinguish between three pigments made from minium, haematite and cinnabar minerals, and also mixed pigments, preparing frescoes mock-ups following the roman receipt described by Vitruvius. Portable FT-IR, Raman spectroscopy, portable XRF and visible reflectance spectra analyses were carried out as reference methods for smartphone colorimetry results validation. Employing a reference colour sheet to control changing lighting conditions, different chemometric approaches have been developed and tested, cross-referencing standard analytical results with the data obtained by smartphone. Overall, using only colour parameters from the smartphone, a Linear Discriminant Analysis and a Support Vector Classifier were tested to efficiently classify each sample based on the red pigment used, with low prediction errors. This work shows the potential of smartphones as cheap, fast and user-friendly analytical devices for the screening of frescoes, and as a prior selective step before carrying out further more expensive and specialized analyses.

Mapping Middle Stone Age human mobility in the Makgadikgadi Pans (Botswana) through multi-site geochemical provenancing of silcrete artefacts

Analyses of the distance over which lithic raw materials were transported for use in stone tool production provide important insights into early human mobility through prehistoric landscapes. This study combines the use of geochemical provenancing, chaîne opératoire analysis and geochronology to examine patterns of lithic raw material procurement at five single-use open-air Middle Stone Age (MSA) archaeological sites in Ntwetwe Pan, part of the Makgadikgadi Pans complex in north-central Botswana. Maximum ages of the five sites ranged from 106 ± 3 to 69 ± 7 ka, with site formation thought to have occurred before and after a lake high stand dated to c. 72-57 ka. Tool manufacture at all sites was largely confined to the production of MSA points, with silcrete used exclusively as the raw material. Geochemical provenancing investigations aimed to identify the specific silcrete outcrops used as lithic raw material sources. Analysis of contemporary pan floor deposits show that sediment (and hence silcrete) geochemistry in Ntwetwe is determined by the proportional sediment input into the pan from fluvial systems with different catchment geologies. Immobile trace element signatures for 46 waste manufacturing flakes were compared against equivalent data for 321 silcrete samples collected at outcrops within and beyond Ntwetwe Pan. Waste flakes were chosen to be representative of the main silcrete raw material types present within the artefact assemblage at each site. Fifteen waste flakes were shown to match specific outcrops on the basis of their geochemical signatures and petrographic properties; all matching outcrops were within Ntwetwe Pan, at distances ranging from 7 to 55 km from individual sites. Multi-site analysis of procurement patterns identifies common silcrete source areas, revealing a preference for silcrete from particular locations within Ntwetwe Pan. Given that the five archaeological sites were likely occupied at different times, this resource preference may have been a longer-term behavioural feature of MSA populations in the Ntwetwe region. The distances over which silcrete was transported in Ntwetwe Pan are smaller than identified in investigations at similar-aged MSA sites in northwest Botswana. The reasons for the different silcrete procurement ranges in the two regions are likely related to silcrete availability and/or raw material preference, but this requires further investigation.

Non-destructive characterisation of dolerite archaeological artefacts

A methodological proposal for the characterisation of dolerite rock aiming to test a non-destructive and non-invasive analytical approach has been developed. Geological samples were collected from several natural outcrops and studied together with seven archaeological stone tools found in a Chalcolithic site of the southern Valencian Community (Spain). The samples were analysed employing portable energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy, Raman microspectroscopy and Fourier transform near infrared spectroscopy. The obtained data were statistically processed in order to evaluate affinities and differences among the geological outcrops and to evaluate the possible provenance of the stone tools. The results of the different techniques were compared and evaluated. The three techniques showed results that were in most of the cases consistent one with each other, suggesting that combining multielement analysis and Raman could be a good way to identify stone tools raw material procurement, being the prior step for the reconstruction of ancient exchange networks.

Tracing Raw Material Sources of Prehistoric Stone Artefacts by Non-Invasive Techniques: The Case of the Early Bronze Age (3rd Mill. BCE) Site of Vathy, Astypalaia, Greece

Recent findings of archaeological research in the Vathy gulf area, Astypalaia Island, indicate its continuous habitation since prehistoric times, most importantly in the transitional period from the Final Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age (late 4th/early 3rd millennium BC). The evaluation of the prehistoric stone artefacts from Vathy using non-invasive analytical methods (Near Infrared Spectroscopy—NIR), in combination with the mineral-petrographic characterization of the main lithological formations of the island, is expected to provide important information about raw material procurement and possible exchange networks. The geological study of the island combined with the analytical methods applied to the archaeological artefacts and the geological samples led to the identification of both local and allogenic materials. The possible locations of raw material sources were established and the origin of allogenic materials was estimated. The stone artefacts made of local geo-materials consist mainly of calcitic sandstone, shale, marl, and limestone/marble, comprising the largest part of the lithological formations of the island, as well as pumice and volcanic rocks of varying chemical composition. By means of a portable microscope and NIR spectroscopy, we were further able to identify allogenic geo-materials including chalcedony, mica schist, bauxite and meta-bauxite, steatite, and paragonite. Based on the mineralogical and petrographic characterization of the stone artefacts, a first attempt is made to evaluate the possible raw material sources and to identify potential intra-island modes of stone exploitation.

Industri Tahu Rakyat dalam Tinjauan Life Cycle Assessment

Tofu is a type of food that is preferred and widely produced by Indonesian people. The existence of the tofu industry will have an impact on the quality of the environment. To reduce this impact, an analysis related to the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is required. The research aims to determine eco-friendly tofu products and the part of the process that has a high potential to pollute the environment in the micro tofu industry. The research method uses a cradle-to-gate approach, which focuses on the processing of raw materials into products in the form of white tofu and fried tofu. The stages of this research are based on SNI ISO-14040: goal and scope, inventory analysis, life cycle impact assessment, and interpretation. The results showed that fried tofu has a high potential to pollute the environment compared to white tofu, namely the contribution value of white tofu is 0.121 pt and the contribution value of fried tofu is 2.83 pt, this is based on the highest value on important issues (hotspots) related to the impact category, namely global warming potential is 154 kg CO2(eq), ozone depletion potential is 1.43.10-5 kg ​​CFC-11(eq), acid rain potential is 3.83.103 kg SO2(eq), eutrophication potential is 145 kg PO4 P-lim , energy use is 154 kg CO2(eq), and human health is 0.822 DALY. Based on the contribution analysis, hotspots on the results of the life cycle assessment of the micro tofu industry are in the frying process and the procurement of the main raw material used, soybeans. Alternative improvements can be made by changing the main ingredient of soybean seed into soybean slurry and replacing palm oil with soybean oil in frying firewood into biogas.

Preference for Porphyry: Petrographic Insights into Lithic Raw Material Procurement from Palaeolithic Kazakhstan

ABSTRACT Only a handful of stratified sites are known in loess, spring, and river contexts in the northern piedmonts of the Tian Shan, and the majority are dated to the Upper Palaeolithic. These sites have been studied from a geoarchaeological perspective; however, lithic procurement activities remain unknown. To address this deficiency, we present the results of the extensive field surveys aimed at locating prehistoric raw material sources in the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor of Kazakhstan. We also provide a detailed petrographic description of the lithologies exploited during the Palaeolithic of Kazakhstan. Based on the field survey results, combined with petrographic data, we conclude that the direct procurement strategy was the most common at the stratified sites. However, evidence of both direct and embedded procurement is found in the northern piedmonts of the Ili Alatau range at the site of Maibulaq. Additionally, we highlight the variation of chert lithologies within the larger Qaratau region, laying a foundation for future provenance studies.

The MSME Conundrum - COVID Troubles for an Already Troubled Sector

India is a land of small entrepreneurs. MSMEs in India - comprising over five crore businesses and employing over eleven crore people - sum for nearly half of India’s production. There are around 6.33 crore MSMEs in the country and they manufacture more than 8000 products.MSMEs have faced challenges ranging from inadequate access to markets, poorly skilled manpower, poor technology adoption, high cost of capital, challenges in raw material procurement, and inadequate infrastructure. While the Government of India understands it needs to play a greater role in supporting MSMEs - as is evident from schemes like the Atmanirbhar Abhiyan - more needs to be done.As if these challenges were not enough, MSMEs were hit hard by the COVID outbreak and the resultant lockdowns.In this research paper, we explore the challenges faced by Indian MSMEs and the support that the government can offer them to help take on a future that looks skewed in favor of large enterprises.

The Wider World of Writing. Networks of People, Practice and Culture Underpinning Writing in Late Bronze Age Ugarit

Writing is a social practice, and as such is fundamentally entwined with a wide array of other forms of human activity, professional categories and aspects of cultural life. However, this is often not fully reflected in scholarly approaches to writing practices, which tend to focus almost exclusively on the act of inscription itself, and on the practices of literates alone. Taking as its case study the Late Bronze Age Syrian polity of Ugarit and focusing on the social and cultural aspects of the procurement of raw materials for writing, this article aims to explore some of the ways in which groups of people beyond the urban, literate elite facilitated, contributed to and shaped the nature of writing practices.

ULTIMATE COMPOSITION OF NATURAL WORMWOOD IN VORONEZH REGION

Studies of the ultimate composition of wild-growing raw material are relevant due to the high efficacy and bioavailability of organometallic forms contained in plants. The available information on the abundance of elements in the medicinal plant raw material (Voronezh region) showed that studies were carried out mainly on several elements. It prevented from determining the complete chemical composition of plants and describing the accumulation of the entire mineral elements complex.
 The purpose of the paper is to study how macro and trace elements are accumulated in natural wormwood in Voronezh region.
 Materials and Methods. Raw material procurement was carried out during the blooming in the Voronezh State Nature Biosphere Reserve. The method of mass spectrometry was used to study the trace element composition of the samples, ELAN-DRC mass spectrometer.
 Results. The authors revealed that the trace element content was 4.4 %, 59 elements were determined. Macro elements made up 96.03 % of the total elemental composition of wormwood. Potassium (>25 mg/g) and calcium (>10 mg/g) were the main macro elements. Essential trace elements made up 3.49 % of the total wormwood complex. Among them, silicon (>1.2 mg/g) and iron (>0.1 mg/g) ranked the largest. The content of normalized heavy metals and arsenic in wormwood satisfied the regulatory requirements. Lead, mercury, cadmium and arsenic accounted for 0.0017 % of the total raw material mineral complex. The proportion of toxic and understudied elements in the total mineral wormwood complex was 0.48 %. The highest content was noted for aluminum (135.6 µg/g), rubidium (27.66 µg/g), strontium (24.95 µg/g), barium (11.98 µg/g), and titanium (9.52 µg/g). It was noted that wormwood also accumulated phosphorus, potassium, copper, zinc, cadmium, molybdenum, calcium, magnesium, nickel, arsenic, rubidium, tin and strontium from the soil.

Caching up with the study of the procurement of symbolic raw materials in the Upper Palaeolithic

A recommendation of: Solange Rigaud, John O’Hara, Laurent Charles, Elena Man-Estier, Patrick Paillet The management of symbolic raw materials in the Late Upper Paleolithic of South-Western France: a shell ornaments perspective https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/z7pqg

MECHANISMS OF STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT OF MILK MARKET DEVELOPMENT IN UKRAINE

Topicality. The relevance of the article lies in the fact that the research is caused by the need to provide food for the population in the post-war period of the formation of the economy of Ukraine, which is an extremely important problem.
 Aim and tasks. The purpose and task of the research presented in the article is the development of a complex mechanism for regulating economic processes in the market of milk and dairy products. To determine the initial provisions regarding the improvement of the system of strategic management of the milk market development process, which should first of all be laid down in the basic functions of the regulatory and management bodies for the production of dairy products, which will condition other elements of the organization of the management process (infrastructure, employment level, etc.).
 Research results. The initial provisions of the conceptual approach to the formation and implementation of a complex mechanism with a new understanding of the tasks of strategic management, planning and their interaction in the context of ensuring the development of the milk market in Ukraine are substantiated and defined. As a result of the imperfection of socio-economic relations, as well as due to certain shortcomings in the organization of procurement, transportation and storage of raw materials, the low technical level of most processing enterprises, significant losses in the production of dairy products are also allowed, and the existing resource potential is not used to a large extent. The concept of a complex mechanism is a holistic system basis for the development of a mechanism for the optimal combination of state regulation tools and the principles of strategic management of business entities in the milk market.
 Conclusion. In the article, as a result of the conducted research, it is determined that the mechanism of managing the development of the milk market in Ukraine is at the stage of its formation. It was determined that demand is an important factor in the formation and development of the milk market, which is represented by the level of consumption of this type of product and is one of the most important, influencing the development of the production process and the level of competitiveness of economic entities. The analysis of the balance of milk production and consumption also shows that the obtained milk production and consumption volumes are gradually decreasing. A decrease in purchasing power among the country's population, a reduction in the geographic size of the market by losing control over the corresponding part of the country's territory in a certain way affect the decrease in the total capacity of the presented domestic food market.

Living in the Mountains. Late Mesolithic/Early Neolithic Settlement in Northwest Portugal: Rock Shelter 1 of Vale de Cerdeira (Vieira do Minho)

Abstract In the 1990s, a research project was developed to identify, in the mountainous areas of the Northwest (NW) of Portugal, the existence of an occupation model associated with the last hunter–gatherer prehistoric communities in the region. Therefore, a set of consistent and detailed field surveys took place in the mountains of NW Portugal, leading to the discovery of the archaeological site named “Rock Shelter 1 of Cerdeira Valley,” a granite rock shelter situated in Cabreira mountain. The campaigns of excavations undertaken permitted the identification of two combustion structures, from which charcoal samples provided two C-14 dates, as well as a significant stone tool assemblage (around 30,000 pieces), that established the prehistoric occupation of “Rock Shelter 1 of Cerdeira Valley” between the Late Mesolithic and the Early Neolithic. This archaeological site and its body of evidences are being analysed within the context of an ongoing PhD project developed by one of the authors (P. Xavier), through two mutually related lines of research. The first one relates to the complete technological and typological study of the lithic assembly, identifying the objectives of the stone tool production, i.e. lithic production systems and related châines opératoires; and the second concerns itself with the classification and characterisation of different raw materials exploited by the prehistoric communities and, wherever possible, to make some additional considerations about raw material procurement. The goals of this article are the presentation of the methodologies adopted in the study of raw materials and the results obtained from the techno-typological study.

Characterising the pigment on a Mesolithic cranium from Corsica using ion beam analysis

Characterising thin mineral layers on heterogeneous media is a significant challenge in archaeometry. Nevertheless, obtaining such geochemical and mineralogical data can, in many cases, provide valuable information about the original raw-material procurement strategies and document the chaîne opératoire leading to the finished object. In this contribution, we report on the geochemical analysis of a thin layer of red mineral pigment found on a skull from the Mesolithic burial of Campu Stefanu, Corsica. A proton ion beam analysis was conducted at the New AGLAE facilities (Palais du Louvre, Paris) to determine major, minor and trace element compositions. Contribution from the pigment’s elemental composition is statistically differentiated from that of the bone and the sediment. Furthermore, the composition of the pigment is shown to be compatible with that of iron-oxide rich mineral blocks found within the mortuary deposits.

Coordination of Configurations of Technologically Integrated “European Green Deal” Projects

An analysis of the state of affairs in the theory and practice of implementation of technologically integrated projects in various applied fields was carried out. The peculiarities of the implementation of the technologically integrated projects of the “European Green Deal” for the production of ecologically clean fuel from agricultural waste were analyzed. The expediency of developing a method of coordinating the configurations of technologically integrated “European Green Deal” projects for the production of ecologically clean energy from agricultural waste on the territory of a given region, taking into account their specific project environments, was substantiated. As a result of the conducted research, a method of coordinating configurations of the technologically integrated “European Green Deal” projects for the production of ecologically clean energy from agricultural waste in the territory of a given region, taking into account their specific project environment, was developed. This method involves the implementation of five stages, which ensure consideration of the specific design environment of each region and the type of agricultural raw materials for energy production. This method involves the modeling of individual projects, which makes it possible to increase the accuracy of determining their value indicators, taking into account risk. The balancing of the technologically integrated projects of the “European Green Deal” for the production of clean energy from agricultural waste was carried out on the basis of maximizing value for stakeholders and minimizing risk. On the basis of the proposed method, the computer program “Balancing technologically integrated projects” was developed. The use of this computer program for the given project environment (conditions of LLC “Lutsk Agrarian Company” of the Volyn region, Ukraine) made it possible to forecast the specific value and risk of individual projects involving harvesting raw materials from corn waste. The statistical characteristics of the distribution of the projected specific value of the project of harvesting raw materials from corn waste were established: the estimate of mathematical expectation—EUR 9/ton; dispersion—EUR 25/ton; the estimation of root mean square deviation—EUR 5/ton. The technologically integrated projects of the “European Green Deal” for the production of ecologically clean energy from corn waste with the greatest interconnections in terms of value were identified. The ranking of raw material procurement projects from corn waste was carried out according to their specific values and risks. Among the considered projects, priority was given to project #7 and project #1, which provided the greatest values, 37.6% and 36.6%, respectively, of the total value of the considered projects. The obtained results made it possible to establish priority projects and carry out their balancing by value and risk.

Implementing a Green Business Model in the Indonesian Garment Industry

The increase in carbon emissions contributes to the growth of green business trends, as popularized by several climate change discourses. Ever since the Paris Agreement was established in 2015, Indonesia has declared its commitment to reducing carbon emissions. The Minister of Finance has also been elected as a co-chair of the 2021–2023 Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action. As a result, the Indonesian government has begun reinforcing its green economy agenda by optimizing the green business, one of which is through the garment industry. The Law no. 3 of 2014 on the Green Industry Standard and the Ministry of Industry Regulations no. 13 of 2019 on the Green Industry Standard for textile industry and products support this notion. Consecutively, the Indonesian garment industry and textile exports show progressive annual growth as follows; 3,8% in 2017, 8,8% in 2018 and 15,3% in 2019. In spite of the following regulations, not many garment industries have implemented a green business model, as unveiled in the 2018s National Textile Dialogue. The number of Green Industry Award recipients from 2010 to 2018 still does not compare to the total number of garment factories in Indonesia. As a labor-intensive industry with competitive price, the garment industry still has a long way before green business manages to successfully penetrate through. This study aims to implement of a green business model in the Indonesian garment industry. A throughout interview was conducted with six company leaders in the related fields in Boyolali, Klaten and Yogyakarta, one of which is part of considerably the biggest garment factory in Indonesia. The novelty of this research is mainly in the methodology used. This study uses a qualitative approach with Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA), which examines how participants build the meaning of green business in the social and personal world. So far, it is rare for green business research in the garment industry to analyze using IPA. The research reveals that the green business implementation requires high costs. Regardless, when implemented thoroughly, green business increases the level of efficiency and productivity within the factory. All company leaders agreed that sustainability becomes the main goal of green businesses. The role of the government remains important in the green business implementation, especially in raw material procurement, license simplification and green business subsidies.

Green Supplier Selection in an Uncertain Environment in Agriculture Using a Hybrid MCDM Model: Z-Numbers–Fuzzy LMAW–Fuzzy CRADIS Model

The goal of this research was to find a selection of green suppliers (GSS) that will, in the best way, help agricultural producers to apply green agricultural production using uncertainty in decision making. In order to avoid the possibility of uncertainty in the expert decision making, Z-numbers were used together with the fuzzy LMAW (Logarithm Methodology of Additive Weights) method and fuzzy CRADIS (Compromise Ranking of Alternatives from Distance to Ideal Solution) method. By applying Z-numbers and the fuzzy LMAW method, the weighting coefficients of the criteria were determined, where the experts, in addition to the criteria ratings, also defined the degrees of certainty in the criteria ratings they gave. The obtained results indicated that the criteria related to price and qualities are the most important during the selection process. To select the best alternative, the CRADIS method modified with Z-numbers and fuzzy numbers was applied. The results obtained by applying this method showed that suppliers A2 and A3 have the best characteristics and are the first choice for the procurement of raw and production materials. As part of the paper, the validation of the results and the sensitivity analysis of the model were carried out by conducting the procedure of comparing the obtained results with the results obtained by other MCDM methods and changing the weighting coefficients of the criteria. These analyses indicated that the model presented provides stable results. The conducted research showed how Z-numbers can be used to reduce uncertainty in decision making and how Z-numbers can be used with other fuzzy methods to perform GSS.

Savunma Tedarik Konusunda Yapılan Çalışmaların Bibliyometrik Analizi

The supply chain can be defined as the network that includes the procurement of raw materials needed in production, the conversion of these materials into the final product, and the distribution of these products to the customers. Supply chain management includes balancing supply and demand, procurement of raw materials and semi-finished products, production and assembly, storage, stock management, order management and distribution of products to customers, etc. Supply chain management is the process of executing all these activities and managing the necessary information systems. Defense procurement, on the other hand, can be defined as the process in which products and systems needed for national defense such as tanks, warplanes, unmanned aerial vehicles, helicopters, airplanes, missiles, electronic systems are procured. In the literature, especially in recent years, the subject of defense procurement is among the remarkable issues. There are many studies on defense procurement in the literature. In this study, bibliometric analysis was carried out for the studies on defense procurement in the literature. In the research, studies on defense procurement in the Web of Science database were examined. By using the publication information of the studies in the Web of Scienc database, bibliometric analyzes of the publications were made using the VOSViewer program. In the last part of the study, the results obtained were interpreted and suggestions were made for future studies.

Raw Material Procurement Process In Autoparts Company

The purpose of this study was to determine the process of procuring raw materials at the Autoparts company, to find out the obstacles faced in the process of procuring raw materials at the Autoparts company, and to find out the solutions that were carried out to overcome the obstacles in the process of procuring raw materials at the Autoparts company. The research methodology used is descriptive qualitative which aims to describe the conditions and analyze the production administration process at the Autoparts company. In this study, data related to the author's study are sourced from literature studies, field studies, documentation techniques. The results of the research on the Raw Material Procurement Process at the Autoparts Company are as follows: The raw material procurement process at the Autoparts Company is the user submits the procurement of raw materials. Then the specifications are reviewed by PPIC. After that, the user makes a Purchase Request (PR) and submits it to PPIC for signature. Then, the approved Purchase Request (PR) is submitted to the Purchasing section for a Purchase Order (PO). After that, submit the PO to the supplier for ordering raw materials. Then, the supplier sends the raw materials to the warehouse and is received by the warehouse. After that, the warehouse informs the arrival of raw materials to the user. Barriers found in the process of procuring these raw materials. First, there is a discrepancy between the requested raw materials and the actual condition of the raw materials sent. Second, there is unclear information from the supplier regarding the arrival of raw materials to the company. Third, there is damage to the forklift vehicle which is a means of transporting raw materials to the production area. The solutions to the obstacles that occur. First, before the purchase request is submitted to the purchasing department, the user checks again so that there is no incomplete raw material specification data. Second, the company asks the supplier for confirmation regarding the departure time and estimated arrival of the requested raw materials. The third, borrowing a forklift from another part that is not in use.