What are the difficulties in purchasing?

First, the focus of enterprise procurement system work

In the environment of socialized mass production and commodity economy, procurement is an important part of the production and operation activities of industrial and commercial enterprises. Enterprises are increasingly dependent on procurement, which not only affects the normal business activities of enterprises, but also plays an extremely important role in improving the competitiveness of enterprises, reducing business risks and realizing various economic indicators of enterprises. Practice has proved that the scientific and advanced nature of enterprise procurement mode (system) is the key factor to determine the survival of enterprises. With the increasingly fierce market competition, in order to expand market share and maintain the advantage of commodity prices, enterprises have higher and higher requirements for procurement, mainly in:

1. With the application of advanced production methods such as agile manufacturing, procurement activities are required to better adapt to the business model of enterprises, meet the needs of continuous adjustment of business activities, and speed up procurement. Therefore, the timeliness of procurement becomes more and more important;

2. In order to adapt to the ever-changing market demand, enterprises constantly expand their business scope in the process of adjustment and introduction, so the requirements for procurement accuracy are increasing day by day;

3. Under the increasingly fierce price competition, enterprises have put forward higher requirements for reducing costs and improving sales profit rate, so the issue of procurement cost has been paid more and more attention;

4. In order to improve the overall competitiveness of enterprises, it is required that all links in the whole procurement management should adapt to each other, prevent mutual disconnection and realize resource integration;

5. The opening of the market has completely broken the concept of region, so timely and accurate information has become an important source of procurement.

Second, the difficulties of enterprise procurement system work

Compared with the modern procurement mode, under the traditional procurement mode, the administrative procurement of enterprises has the following problems:

1. The procurement process relies too much on labor. Purchasing behavior cannot form a unified management procedure, which consumes a lot of time and labor costs. At the same time, due to the slow response speed, it is difficult to grasp the ever-changing product information, supplier information and market situation in time, and buyers and sellers cannot communicate effectively, thus becoming mutually blocked.

2. There is no objective standard to measure the relationship with suppliers. Facing the changeable market, although enterprises attach great importance to the development of strategic partnership alliance, some purchasers still have constant friction with suppliers. The relationship between supply and demand is temporary or short-term cooperation, and competition is more than cooperation. Enterprises lack channels to develop new qualified suppliers. Even if a new qualified supplier is found, the cost of realizing supplier transformation is relatively high.

3. The procurement method is single. It is difficult for traditional procurement to adopt different procurement methods according to different commodities, so it is difficult for enterprises to use appropriate procurement strategies to obtain more price discounts and reduce the prices of purchased commodities;

4. The procurement process and cost are unreasonable. The approval of the procurement process is too complicated, the procurement information is not shared, and there are often independent procurement and unapproved procurement. The procurement process is opaque and it is difficult to eliminate human factors, resulting in low procurement efficiency;

5. It is difficult to summarize and analyze the purchasing data of enterprises. Due to the lack of systematic management and control of procurement, it is difficult to make forward-looking procurement, and it is not conducive to predicting and controlling unexpected problems in procurement and controlling safety inventory.