Four core competencies necessary for professional procurement

The four core competencies necessary for professional procurement are: 1 Understand product technology and have technical background; 2 buyers must have certain financial knowledge; The purchaser must know the supply market information.

The value embodiment of the buyer:

First, reduce costs;

The second is to ensure quality;

The third is to improve productivity;

Fourth, there are vast procurement resources to make the purchase price clear.

Fifth, we should form a healthy competition mechanism in our own supply market.

Purchasing is not just a simple business transaction, but a professional subject that needs constant research and accumulation.

Understand product technology and have technical background;

More and more enterprises pay attention to technical background when recruiting procurement positions. Because in the process of communicating with suppliers, procurement will involve many technical problems and use many technical terms.

If the purchaser knows the relevant product knowledge, process knowledge and even lean production expertise, the communication with suppliers will be much smoother and more professional.

I know the boss of a die casting factory. He told me one thing:

A purchasing engineer from a foreign company called them and said that they needed to produce a new product with stainless steel die casting.

The boss asked the buyer, "Are you sure to use die casting?"

"ok!" The other party answered in the affirmative.

"Excuse me, why don't you ask your technical engineer to talk to us?"