Purchasing center

(1) The so-called procurement refers to suppliers who can provide these resources in the process of obtaining resources from the resource market, forming a resource market. In order to obtain these resources from the resource market, it must be through procurement. In other words, the basic function of procurement is to help people obtain the various resources they need from the resource market.

(2) Purchasing is not only a business flow process, but also a logistics process. The basic function of procurement is the process of transferring resources from suppliers in the resource market to users. In this process, one is to realize the transfer of the physical entities of resources from suppliers to users. The former is a business flow process, which mainly realizes the transfer of commodity ownership through commodity transactions and equivalent exchanges. The latter is a logistics process, mainly through transportation, storage, packaging, loading and unloading, circulation processing and other means to achieve a complete combination of the spatial position and time position of the commodity, it is indispensable. Only when these two aspects are fully realized can the procurement process be considered complete. Therefore, the procurement process is actually the unity of the business flow process and the logistics process.

(3) Purchasing is an economic activity. In the entire procurement process, on the one hand, resources are obtained through procurement, which ensures the smooth progress of normal production of the enterprise, which is the benefit of procurement; on the other hand, in the procurement process, it is also Various expenses will occur, and this is the procurement cost. We must pursue the maximization of the economic efficiency of procurement, which is to continuously reduce the procurement cost and obtain the greatest benefit with the least cost. To achieve this, the key is to strive for scientific procurement. Scientific procurement is the basic source of profit to maximize the economic benefits of enterprises.