How to solve the problem of purchasing management quickly?

Procurement is the source of enterprise supply chain. For enterprises, procurement is a very important behavior and activity, and any deviation in the procurement process will affect the expected procurement objectives. The following small series summarizes four problems in procurement and their solutions.

Question 1: Asymmetric supplier information increases the comparison cost.

There are many cooperative suppliers, and there is a lack of new information of multiple suppliers when purchasing. The asymmetry of information will directly lead to the increase of purchasing cost and the limitation of bargaining power in purchasing negotiation, which will make enterprises unable to make better purchasing decisions, sales decisions and business decisions.

In the ERP system, open Purchase Management-Purchase Add-Select Supplier-Select Product, and the selected product will appear in the product list. When the mouse slides to the small icon in the "Unit Price" column, the historical supply price analysis of the selected supplier, the historical supply price analysis of all suppliers, the suggested purchase price and the purchase price limit will be displayed, which perfectly solves the problem of supplier information comparison.

Second, the purchase price changes quickly, and it is impossible to prevent it.

The cycle of supplier contract price quotation is getting shorter and shorter, which seriously affects the profitability of manufacturing enterprises. Shorter and faster price fluctuations put forward higher requirements for real-time follow-up of market price changes, and the traditional procurement model obviously cannot meet the demand of price control in the new economic environment.

In ERP, you can set purchase price control, reservation price control and inquiry price control. If the price is higher than the price limit and cannot be entered, it means that the price of the product at the time of purchase is higher than the price limit set in product management and cannot be entered; You can also set to display historical prices or suggested prices.

Problem 3: It is difficult to process a large amount of purchasing data accurately and efficiently.

There are a lot of information and transaction data in enterprise procurement and supply that need to be recorded, classified and analyzed. Many traditional manufacturing enterprises need to invest a lot of people's time and cost to do basic data collection, sorting and analysis, which not only has high time cost and manpower, but also has difficulty in ensuring data accuracy, low efficiency, large error and low support for decision-making.

Open the column of purchasing statistics and analysis in ERP management system, and you can classify, summarize and analyze the purchasing data according to each dimension.

Question 4: The analysis and calculation of costs and profits are complicated.

If manual cost calculation in manufacturing enterprises is quite complicated and inefficient, then how to determine a reasonable purchase price for purchased products through market analysis, cost analysis and business negotiation often puzzles purchasing managers.

Click Purchase Profit Details under Purchase Data Summary to view the purchase profit details in the list. Choose the option to analyze and confirm the data at a glance.

ERP system aims to continuously save costs, ensure the efficiency of contract execution and shorten the period of value realization. Through the end-to-end process, optimize the procurement development, operation and maintenance, execution, monitoring and other links in the procurement process, help enterprises gain profitability beyond the value itself, and change from empirical procurement to scientific procurement.