Purchasing Agent in China

Centralized and unified commodity procurement is the supermarket chain to a

chieve the premise of large-scale operation and the key, only the implementa

tion of unified procurement, in order to truly unified display, unified distributi

on, unified marketing planning, unified accounting, can really play the advanta

ges of chain operations. Help to improve the bargaining power of supermarke

ts and suppliers. Today, China's retail industry is not profitable industry, it is n

ow the size of the monomer is quite obvious. Such as Wanjia Department St

ore in 2000 to do the province's first, it is only 1.62 billion yuan in sales, onl

y equivalent to Wal-Mart's global sales of less than one thousandth. Therefor

e, we must dig in the old shop at the same time continue to open new stor

es, continue to expand the scale of operation, and constantly expand the mar
ket share of enterprises, so that the scale of operation to maximize the prosp

ects of China's national retail industry is promisin, Product Sourcing Agent, ,

And centralized procurement is the implementation of large-scale operation of

the basic guarantee. Chain retail enterprises to implement a central procure

ment system, large quantities of purchase, you can fully enjoy the purchase o

f goods discount the amount of discount prices to ensure that the supermark

et in the price competition in the dominant position, but also to meet the ps

ychological needs of consumers seeking honesty.

(2) is conducive to reducing the cost of procurement of goods. Large quantiti

es of centralized purchase, you can significantly reduce the cost of purchase,

supplemented by supporting the unified distribution agencies and systems, wi

ll be able to effectively control the chain of retail supermarkets the total cost

of procurement. The same time as

(3) is conducive to regulate the procurement of supermarket behavior. In the

decentralized procurement system, due to the decision to subordinate the pur

chase of goods to the branches, the procurement behavior is difficult to impl

ement effective constraints, so the procurement of all kinds of non-standard

behavior repeated. And the central procurement system is conducive to stand

ardize the procurement behavior of enterprises, for the supermarket to create

a good order and conditions of the transaction.

Decentralized purchasing model

Decentralized procurement model is the supermarket will be distributed to th

e distribution of various branches of the store, by the branch within the appr

oved amount of money, directly to the supplier procurement of goods. From

the development trend of the supermarket, decentralized procurement is not

desirable, because it is not easy to control, there is no price advantage and h

igh procurement costs. The decentralized purchasing model has the following

two specific forms: fully decentralized procurement

Completely decentralized procurement form is the supermarket headquarters

according to their own circumstances will be completely decentralized to the

branches of the store, according to their own stores flexible implementation o

f their procurement, its biggest advantage is flexible, able to respond to cust

omer needs to respond effectively Is conducive to competition, such as: Franc

e's Carrefour company has been in a very long period of time to implement

decentralized procurement, because of its large single store size, also effective.

However, the biggest drawback of fully decentralized procurement is that it c

an not play the advantages of scale procurement, is not conducive to lower p

rices, is not conducive to control procurement, so even Carrefour supermarket

companies such as the gradual change to the centralized mode of purchase.

part of the scattered procurement

Part of the scattered procurement form is the supermarket headquarters of th

e branches of the region's strong goods (such as some regional specialties ar

e only suitable for sales in the region), and some need to diligent sales of fr
esh products to implement decentralized procurement, by the Branch to orga

nize their own purchase, while the headquarters of other goods on the centra

lized procurement. www.dongsourcing.com

Such as: a branch of the target consumer has a special diet, and the headqu

arters do not understand the market conditions, in this case, by the store for

commodity procurement decisions on the more appropriate. This system has

a strong flexibility, so that the store can be based on their own characteristi

cs to adopt a flexible marketing strategy to ensure that the store to achieve t

he goal of efficiency.