Disadvantages of traditional procurement by purchasing agents

The traditional material procurement mode refers to the establishment of a procurement department within an enterprise to purchase the production materials needed by the enterprise, which is the most common material procurement mode in China at present. Although this model has advantages in protecting the trade secrets of raw material supply, and there is no need to worry about honesty, the cost is too high. As we all know, material procurement is the most prone to corruption in all the work of enterprises. In the buyer's market environment, the enterprise's material procurement personnel are often the object of material suppliers' competition. Therefore, most enterprises, especially state-owned enterprises, have set up supervision departments to supervise the whole process of material procurement in order to prevent corruption in material procurement. In addition, for the purpose of clean government, many enterprises restrict material procurement positions in the system. For example, a rotation system is implemented, and people are changed once every two or three years. Often a person has worked in this position for two to three years, and when he is familiar with the business of material procurement, he has to jump ship again. In this environment, the problems of low efficiency and high cost inevitably exist in the material procurement of enterprises.