Procurement workflow, as the name suggests, is the specific steps of the procurement process, that is, what to do first, and then what to do.
The procurement process includes: collecting information, requesting quotations, comparing prices, bargaining, evaluating, requesting samples, deciding, requisitioning, ordering, coordinating and communicating, urging for delivery, accepting incoming goods, and organizing payment.
Purchasing: refers to the enterprise under certain conditions, from the supply market to obtain products or services as enterprise resources, in order to ensure that the enterprise production and business activities carried out normally a business activity.
The main process of competitive procurement:
1. The purchaser issues the procurement information (procurement notice or invitation to procurement) and procurement documents;
2. The suppliers prepare and submit the response documents in accordance with the requirements of the procurement documents;
3. The purchaser evaluates the response documents of the suppliers and preliminarily determines the successful candidates (the number of successful candidates is less than the number of suppliers submitting the response documents). The number of suppliers is less than the number of suppliers submitting response documents, the specific number depends on the procurement project).
Expanded Information:
Procurement outsourcing not only can get lower procurement costs, improve procurement efficiency, access to specialized procurement services, enterprises from the overall reduction in operating costs, improve procurement efficiency, the enterprise but also all of their own intelligence and resources to focus on the core business, to improve the competitiveness of enterprises in the new competitive environment. Enterprises to implement the advantages of procurement outsourcing is mainly reflected in:
1, accelerate the procurement business restructuring.
Enterprise business process re-engineering needs to spend a lot of time, to get the benefits will take a long time, and outsourcing is an important strategy for enterprise business process re-engineering. Outsourcing is an important strategy for business process reengineering. It can help enterprises to quickly solve the problem of reengineering the procurement business. For the implementation of procurement outsourcing enterprises, not only to do the existing core procurement capabilities and outsourcing suppliers core competencies of the integration.
More importantly, how to consolidate and enhance their core procurement capabilities. If the enterprise neglects to cultivate its own core purchasing power. Then the implementation of "outsourcing" procurement is only to cultivate potential competitors, and their own future development opportunities are lost.
2, the use of external resources.
If the enterprise does not have the resources needed to effectively complete the procurement business, the enterprise can outsource the procurement business. Enterprise procurement? [2]? outsourcing must conduct a procurement cost and profit analysis to confirm whether such outsourcing is beneficial to the enterprise in the long term, and thus decide whether the procurement outsourcing strategy should be adopted.
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