What's the difference between offline procurement and online procurement?

Traditional procurement is a routine business activity flow of an enterprise, that is, according to the production needs of the enterprise, at the end of the month, the end of the season or the end of the year, each demanding unit prepares an application plan for the materials to be purchased, which is submitted to the competent leader for approval and then organized for concrete implementation; Finally, after purchasing the required materials, check the warehouse and organize the supply.

Procurement in Internet trade: It is a new procurement mode that combines online information processing with offline heavy procurement work and seeks resources through the mature and convenient tool of the Internet.

2. Different settlement methods

Compared with traditional procurement methods, the main difference of online procurement lies in the adoption of modern computer network technology, especially the application of the Internet as a tool. The information announcement, bidding, bidding and calibration of procurement projects are all carried out on the computer network, and the data and information related to procurement are electronic.

3. Development is different.

Increase the selection range of online procurement; Shorten the procurement time; Get the best price and reduce the purchase cost; Increase the transparency of transactions and reduce the possibility of black-box operation; The possibility of providing enterprises with zero inventory.

Online shopping can reduce the purchase cost by 70% and the product cost by 5%- 15%. For example, the net income of Ford Motor Company 1999 is $7.2 billion, but the purchase amount is as high as $90 billion. If we control the cost in the traditional way, we can only save $2.2 billion, while Ford saves $65,438+by combining competitive procurement with online procurement. It can be seen that greatly reducing the procurement cost is the core driving force to promote enterprises to adopt online procurement.