Advantages
1. Centralized quantity advantage
2. Avoiding duplication
3. Centralized procurement forms large-scale transportation, thus reducing transportation costs
4. Reducing competition and conflicts among departments and units within the enterprise
5. Forming supply bases
6. Reducing procurement costs
Disadvantages
(1)
(2) Internal personnel recommend different units respectively, and the primary selection and bid evaluation are often discussed without decision, which leads to low work efficiency and will create or increase internal contradictions;
(3) If any link of the procurement process cannot be completed on schedule, it will lead to the failure to complete the procurement as planned, which will further affect the construction period and the claim of the construction unit.
(4) The competent purchasing department often induces the recommendation of the tendering units, which leads to the concealment of the better units.
in order to realize the business requirements of centralized control of group procurement business, centralized procurement includes the application of the following typical modes: centralized pricing and separate procurement; Centralized ordering and separate receipt and payment; Centralized ordering, separate receipt and centralized payment; Operation modes such as centralized procurement and post-allocation. Which mode to adopt depends on the group's shareholding control, taxation, material characteristics, import and export performance statistics and other factors. There may be several centralized procurement modes in a group at the same time.
centralized order, separate receipt and centralized payment mode
The branch submits a purchase application, and the former summarizes and adjusts it, and issues a purchase order and sends a receipt notice to the branch according to the adjustment result; Branches receive goods and put them in storage according to the receipt notice or purchase order; The former collects the receipt documents of the latter for payment settlement with external suppliers, and makes internal settlement with branches according to the receipt documents of each branch.
Post-purchase transfer
The branch submits a purchase application, the former summarizes and adjusts it, and issues a purchase order according to the adjustment result, while the former completes the subsequent receiving, warehousing and external payment settlement. After that, according to the purchase application of each molecular institution, the former starts the internal transfer process, formulates the transfer order and makes the transfer issue, the latter makes the receipt processing according to the transfer order, and finally makes the internal settlement processing.
Significance
Centralized procurement is a hospital drug procurement management mode that is compatible with the market economy system. It highlights the application of modern information network technology in the procurement management process, forcibly standardizes the separate management of procurement, sales and distribution, embodies the balance of interests between buyers and sellers under the guidance of the buyer's market, and reflects the trend of gradually realizing socialization of procurement management.