How to carry out procurement work?

First of all, it is strongly recommended to be familiar with the company's products. If you are lucky enough to be hired by a company because of your own quality, congratulations on getting an opportunity to become a qualified purchaser. The first task is to get familiar with the company's products as soon as possible. The reasons are as follows: 1. Knowing all the production links of the company's products can help you understand the "role" of raw materials and semi-finished products to be purchased in the products, so as to know their quality requirements and corresponding quantity requirements (only need to know here, as for the requirements at a higher level, they will not become the content of qualified procurement, and will be explained in detail later) 2. When you are familiar with the company's products, by the way, get a preliminary understanding of the various departments of the company and related contact information, including sales, production, technology, quality, finance, logistics and so on. Depending on the company's operation, these will help you integrate into the team as soon as possible. Secondly, it is recommended to be familiar with raw materials, semi-finished products and trade goods. As the basis of your main work in the future, it will generally be divided into the following aspects: understanding 1 and understanding the market situation of purchased products. Now that you have known the quality requirements of raw materials and semi-finished products that the company needs to purchase before, you can know them through Ali, Google and various search engines (notably, you can't subjectively locate the purchased products because you don't know the production process, which is our usual jargon "cost accounting"), then you can only get a general understanding of the market through other aspects (I didn't mention colleague consultation here, which is a breakthrough). After all, people will know the market before you, which is a shortcut. However, it should be noted that poor use of shortcut keys will hinder you. Now that you have the basic qualities and abilities, why not talk about your own experience? 2. Keep abreast of the price fluctuations that affect the purchased goods. Some purchased commodities, such as non-ferrous metals, minerals and textile raw materials (to name a few), fluctuate greatly, even one price per day, which directly affects the purchase cost, while other purchased commodities, such as imported products, will also fluctuate the purchase cost. Understanding the above two points can help you understand the market situation more comprehensively and provide essential for the future "price conversion value". In addition to the company's existing business contacts and supplier assessment, this situation also needs to be understood from the side (such as contacts, peers, etc.). ). Generally, enterprise suppliers will be assessed in terms of quality, delivery time and emergency handling. , so this aspect is relatively simple. I can master it myself. Thirdly, I learned about the specific procurement practice, procurement process, examination and approval procedures, inquiry, negotiation and contract signing, procurement, acceptance, warehousing and handling of quality complaints. Enterprises have a thorough understanding of the procurement process, and different enterprises have different processes. It is no problem for a person with basic purchasing quality and ability to obtain this information. This is not the point. 4. Maintaining a good or higher-level relationship with your suppliers will be of great help to your future procurement, whether in terms of purchase price, delivery deadline, payment method, claim work, etc. A qualified procurement is only a procurement executor or operator, but it is not difficult for qualified procurement to involve the relationship with suppliers (the relationship referred to here is only to maintain the relationship) because it has in-depth ability and is very small. Personally, if you do the above, congratulations on becoming a qualified buyer. Need to be reminded that qualified employees can only show that you are familiar with your work and become a familiar hand, but will your position in the company fluctuate? When you become a qualified buyer in a foreign-funded enterprise, it is no accident that you can continue to do this job until you retire, but those employees in other private enterprises may not be so lucky. On the other hand, friends who meet the conditions of (1) and (2) will not be limited to being procurement executors or operators. It should be the wish of every procurement professional to be promoted to "a good procurement and an excellent procurement staff". Next time I will talk about how to upgrade from a qualified procurement to a good procurement, which mainly involves various details, such as case analysis of domestic procurement and international procurement.