What are the strategies of purchasing cost control?

There are six strategies for purchasing cost control, namely, supplier strategy, material quality strategy, purchasing price strategy, purchasing time strategy, purchasing batch strategy and purchasing strategy under supply chain mode.

1, select the supplier strategy.

Supplier selection strategy: Generally speaking, supplier selection should include the following steps: establishing an expert evaluation team to define the scope of supplier selection, establishing an index system, evaluating item by item, comprehensively scoring and determining suppliers.

2. Material quality strategy

The so-called material quality refers to the material quality components that meet the needs of the buyer within a certain production standard, including material, function, life, stability, safety, popularity and so on. The agreement process of material quality refers to the agreement of material quality in the design process, manufacturing process and use process.

3. Purchase price strategy

The purchase price refers to the sum of the material cost and various expenses consumed in the purchase process. The purchase price directly affects the profit of the purchasing enterprise. The composition of purchase price includes purchase cost, purchase process cost, acceptance cost, transportation and handling cost and material cost.

Basic ways to reduce purchasing price. ① Select the material supplier. ② Reasonable use of procurement methods and methods. ③ Modify or improve the design of raw materials. (4) Looking for substitutes for original materials. ⑤ Choose a reasonable mode of transportation. ⑥ Strengthen the standardized management of purchasing process. ⑦ Using network technology.

4. Purchase time strategy

Purchasing time refers to the time spent from purchasing materials to material inspection and warehousing. Generally, it includes the time for processing purchase orders, the time for suppliers to manufacture or provide materials, the time for transportation and delivery, and the time for inspection and warehousing.

5. Purchasing batch strategy

There can be three types: high, medium and low. These three materials have different effects on the occupation of inventory funds, so the purchasing strategies adopted cannot be exactly the same. Once there is a backlog of high-value materials, the occupation of inventory funds will increase, which will affect the use of working capital. Generally, the principle of ordering on demand is adopted.

In order to reduce the cost of each purchase, the principle of minimum batch size is adopted for median materials, and the conventional consumption in balanced production should be considered when formulating the minimum batch size. Because the storage of low-value consumables has little influence on the funds occupied by inventory, the principle of fixed batch or economic batch is adopted, and the size of batch should consider the balance between material consumption speed and procurement cost.

6. Purchasing strategy under supply chain mode

The difference between the procurement strategy based on supply chain management mode and the traditional procurement strategy is mainly for order procurement, not for inventory procurement; From general trade relations to strategic partnership; Change multi-source supply into less-source supply; Change large-batch and small-batch procurement into small-batch and multi-batch procurement.

Procurement cost control refers to the control of logistics costs related to the procurement of raw materials and spare parts, including purchase order cost, management cost of procurement planners, management cost of procurement personnel, etc.

Facing the global economic recession: the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States, the continuous recession in Europe, the appreciation of the renminbi, the rise in raw material prices and the rise in labor costs? Survival first and development second have become the first strategic policy of many multinational companies. Cost competitive advantage is very important.

But purchasing cost control is not only a simple cost reduction, but also a systematic project. Simply cutting procurement costs will also bring many risks to the company, such as quality risk, timely delivery risk and technical risk. Therefore, the procurement cost management must comprehensively consider the company's strategy and develop long-term sustainable core competitiveness.