International purchasing is the most fully utilized of global production factor resources by purchasers, and it is the transaction process for them to obtain the products with the best quality and the best price by searching for the best suppliers all over the world. The large number and wide range of international procurement is an important feature. Data show that only the world's top 500 companies in the retail industry transnational corporations in the international procurement volume is as high as 2 trillion U.S. dollars or more, but also in the annual growth rate of 30%, buyers to buy a wide range of products is also extremely broad, only the United Nations one involves transportation vehicles communications equipment, office supplies, software, professional instruments, medical equipment, agricultural products, food, pharmaceuticals, and many other areas.
(2) become a new way to take the pulse of the market
Demand determines everything. International procurement is different from general demand, its large number and wide range of characteristics precisely reflects that it is a representative of the world's mainstream purchasing and consumption tendency of the effective demand, can best present the overall sales of a variety of commodities on the world market and the future growth of space. Take retail procurement as an example, if a company's products are valued by Wal-Mart or Carrefour, such as world-class buyers, it fully demonstrates that the product has a global sales, it is recognized and accepted by the world's largest number of consumers, it is universally welcomed by the marketable commodities. Therefore, the international procurement for suppliers, the significance of its not only in the sale of bulk products, more importantly, through the purchasing intentions of buyers can most accurately touch the global market supply and demand fluctuations in the pulse, the most rapid grasp of business opportunities and market.
(3) Promote enterprises to practice internal
International buyers on the quality of the product requirements are extremely demanding, and sometimes even on the production process of the production company, the employee situation, the health of the environment and other aspects of the stringent requirements, if it does not match, it will not be selected. International procurement certainly has a variety of benefits, but if the production enterprises want to become a real buyer's "favorite", to cross a number of assessment threshold is no easy task. Enterprises do not go through the "nine hundred and ninety-one difficulties", you can not get in the global competitive conditions for survival and development of the "true scriptures" do not have access to the world's mainstream market "pass".
(4) Promote the development of the logistics industry
International buyers sustained, centralized and batch purchases, promoting warehousing, transportation, distribution, information services and other logistics industry, especially third-party logistics, full logistics services, supply chain management is entering the fast lane.