The basic process of e-commerce procurement

Online procurement procedures mainly include: pre-procurement preparation, procurement in the supply and demand side of the consultation, contract formulation and implementation, delivery and liquidation and other links.

I. Preparation before purchasing

For buyers, the process of preparation before purchasing is the process of publicizing and obtaining effective information from suppliers. Under the conditions of the network environment, will evolve into a supplier actively put their own product information resources (such as product price, quality, company status, technical support, etc.) in the online publication, the enterprise is always on the Internet to query and master their own needs of commodity information resources.

The two sides of the push and pull interaction, *** with the completion of the commodity information supply and demand to achieve the process. In the network environment, the exchange of information is usually completed by logging in and browsing each other's websites and homepages, and its speed and efficiency is incomparable to the traditional way. The exchange of information before purchasing is mainly for enterprises to understand the price and quality of the supplier's products. Therefore, the price largely determines the purchasing decision.

II. Consultation between supply and demand

Process In a network environment, the document exchange of traditional procurement consultation can evolve into the process of transferring records, documents, or messages over a network. Various network tools and specialized data exchange protocols automatically ensure the accuracy and security of network delivery.

Once an enterprise has selected a suitable supplier who can guarantee the best product quality, the most reasonable price, and the best service, it can carry out consultation and negotiation with it on the Internet.

A variety of trade documents, documents (such as price lists, price lists, inquiries, offer, orders, purchase orders to answer, purchase orders to change the requirements, shipping instructions, shipping notices, payment notices, invoices, etc.) in the network transactions have become a standard form of newspaper, reducing the loopholes and errors, standardize the entire procurement process.

Third, the formulation and implementation of the contract

After the completion of the consultation process, the results of the consultations need to be finalized in the form of legal instruments to monitor the performance of the contract, so the two sides must sign a procurement contract in writing. This can, on the one hand, eliminate irregularities in the procurement process, and on the other hand, avoid economic disputes arising from invalid contracts.

Because network protocols and network business information tools can guarantee the accuracy and security and reliability of all procurement consultation documents, both parties can use the consultation documents to constrain procurement behavior and implement the results of the consultation.

Four, payment and settlement process

After the procurement is completed, the goods are stored in the warehouse, and the enterprise has to carry out payment and settlement activities with suppliers. Enterprises pay suppliers the purchase price of the way there are currently two main categories:

1, electronic money, including e-cash, e-wallets and electronic credit cards, etc.;

2, e-checks,

such as e-checks, e-transfers, electronic transfer of funds, etc.. The former is mainly used for small amount payment between enterprises and suppliers, which is relatively simple; the latter is mainly used for large amount fund settlement between enterprises and suppliers, which is more complicated.

Extended information:

The traditional procurement model has the following problems. p>The traditional procurement model has the following problems: procurement, supply and mutual blocking of news for their respective interests, asymmetric information game, procurement is easy to develop into a blind behavior; supply and demand relationships are generally temporary or short-term behavior, more competition than cooperation, easy to cause the consequences of lose-lose;

Smooth exchange of information, unable to track the supplier product quality, delivery date; response to user Insufficient ability to respond to user needs, unable to face the rapidly changing market; profit-driven backroom operations, good for second, cheap for expensive, close for far, resulting in a hotbed of corruption; design departments, production departments and procurement departments disconnected, resulting in inventory backlog, taking up a large amount of working capital.

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