ADANE MULUGETA2024-04-112024-04-112020-12Purchasing practice in Ethiopia is not recent phenomena Nowadays, it play curtail role by providing the necessary material to other department. The investigation conducted on challenges and prospect purchasing practice in Wolkite University. The major objective of this study was focused on improving purchasing mechanism of challenges enriching practice with the most relevant information and assessing the department. To do this both primary and secondary data is needed for successful achievement of the study. Primary data was collected from purchasing department committee and the manger though open and closed ended questioner. But secondary data was gathered from different document, books, purchasing department report, purchasing manual, regulation, training material. The study use judgmental or purposive sampling techniques. And also the research was used descriptive research techniques. The performance of the purchasing management activity is poor. The purchasing section follows the procedure of purchasing according to purchasing manual. But the qualification of the staff and training held is not well enough to fill the gap. As result user forced to compliant on quality, time and price of goods and service. Also specification management is poor. However, some of the observed gaps should be filled. This needs commitment from leaders of the University to improve the purchasing practice and resolve challenges for sound purchasing performanceenThesis