Peranan Analisis Biaya Kualitas dalam Meningkatkan Efisiensi Biaya Produksi

Industrial manufacturing is one of the tea industry which is currently still not well developed. Competition faced by a company not only from local and national competitors, but also include competitors from abroad. Therefore, companies must constantly strives to improve its product quality at an affordable price. Companies need to conduct quality control programs to achieve quality products that comply with the criteria established. By doing the quality control activities are expected to reduce the existence of failed products, which indirectly can reduce production costs. One way to direct quality control program is to analyze the cost of quality. Quality costs consist of prevention cost, appraisal, internal failure costs and external failure costs. With this quality cost analysis of the company should manage its quality control activities, especially those who are preventing the occurrence of product failure. If the cost is reduced without degrading the quality of the product quality, the cost of more efficient production. This is because the cost of quality is part of the cost of production. The author conducted research at PT. Perkebunan Nusantara VIII, a processing company tea, for the year 2009. The method used was descriptive-analytical method, whereas for data collection used interviews, observations, and documentation that supported the study of literature as a reference. Based on a study author and supported by literature study, the authors drew the conclusion that all this time on PT. Perkebunan Nusantara VIII, cost analysis, quality control activities have not contributed to the quality and cost efficient business production, even though the company has Quality Assurance section for the testing of raw materials, goods in process and finished goods. Results of quality cost analysis shows that the largest categories of quality costs incurred by PT. Perkebunan Nusantara VIII is an internal failure cost. Through analysis of quality costs, companies can focus more on quality control is prevention, so that internal failure costs can be reduced, so will the total cost of quality will be reduced which in turn will minimize the cost of production