What is e-procurement?

E-procurement is defined as: through the Internet, finding and managing qualified suppliers and commodities, keeping abreast of market conditions and inventory, making procurement plans, purchasing needed commodities online, managing purchase orders and goods in transit, account management and inventory management, and realizing automatic statistical analysis and sunshine procurement.

E-procurement mainly includes public bidding, invitation bidding, competitive negotiation, inquiry procurement and single source agreement procurement. E-procurement is not only an important form of e-commerce, but also the necessity of procurement development. It is not only a change in form and technology, but more importantly, it changes the traditional procurement business, optimizes the procurement process, improves the procurement efficiency and reduces the procurement cost. Through the electronic catalogue, you can quickly find more suppliers; According to the supplier's historical purchasing electronic data, the best source can be selected; Through electronic bidding, electronic inquiry and other procurement methods, more effective competition will be formed and procurement costs will be reduced; Through the electronic procurement process, the procurement cycle is shortened, the procurement efficiency is improved, and the manual operation errors in procurement are reduced; Through supplier and supply chain management, we can reduce the circulation of procurement, realize end-to-end procurement and reduce procurement costs; Through electronic information data, we can understand the market situation and inventory situation, and make purchasing plans and decisions scientifically.

The convenience brought by e-procurement

E-procurement builds a bridge for information exchange between materials departments and suppliers, which will bring business convenience to buyers and sellers. For the procurement, management and implementation departments of materials:

1. The procurement execution process can be completely electronic through the Internet;

2. Support dynamic electronic management of electronic procurement catalogue;

3. Support the electronic management and relationship maintenance of suppliers;

4. Parameterized process customization and modification functions;

5. Electronic bidding procurement supports online bidding, invitation, sales, bidding, bid opening, bid evaluation and award, and supports bid evaluation experts and bidding fee management; Support multiple Zhong Zhongbiao methods such as unit price, total price and expert bid evaluation;

6. Bidding procurement supports open/invited bidding, bid award and expert bid evaluation.

7. Powerful statistical analysis function helps to analyze purchasing decisions and evaluate purchasing performance;

8. form a closed loop with the existing application software of the enterprise to realize seamless integration of business information such as supplier data, purchased material data and purchased result data;

For suppliers participating in the e-procurement platform, its convenience is also obvious:

1, adding a 24-hour online quotation platform;

2. Self-service catalog service enables suppliers to communicate product information including price with buyers in time;

3. Systematic and standardized procurement process has played a role in standardizing the trade business behavior of suppliers;

4. Timely, effective and cheap information exchange is an important value of Internet information application system. Based on various information transmission and communication methods of e-mail, we can know the information of the purchaser in time and communicate effectively.

Electronic bidding procurement method

For the procurement of important materials and the evaluation of complex procurement targets, the bidding procurement method is generally adopted. Bidding procurement based on the principle of "openness, fairness and justice" can fully consider and evaluate other commercial and technical factors of suppliers under the condition of ensuring competition, thus ensuring the procurement effect.

The traditional way to operate bidding procurement, because of its complex business process, the relevant procurement business personnel must have a good understanding of bidding business, thus increasing the burden of business personnel; And the traditional bidding operation cycle is long and the efficiency is low.

The procurement method of electronic bidding is designed and developed according to the Bidding Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) and the experience of industry experts. Its business process covers all the traditional bidding processes, realizes the electronic management and operation of the bidding process, and perfectly combines the bidding concept with information technology, so that ordinary business personnel can easily operate bidding projects, greatly reducing the burden on business personnel and improving work efficiency. Relevant data and documents of various bidding businesses can be stored in an orderly manner, effectively forming the knowledge precipitation of future business needs of enterprises. The adoption of electronic bidding can also greatly shorten the procurement business cycle.

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