In what ways can purchasing improve itself?

Up to now, procurement has been subdivided into many positions, and different positions have different responsibilities and requirements. And different companies have different settings and requirements. As for how to understand the procurement positions of five people, it is to make full use of the recruitment network to collect information. Refer to the requirements and responsibilities of many famous companies at home and abroad for procurement and recruitment. Through the collection of this information, we can not only understand the responsibilities and requirements of different procurement positions, but also understand our favorite procurement roles and determine our own procurement career development direction.

With the enthusiasm and pertinence of promotion, the next step is to get back to the topic-how to improve yourself through procurement.

Improvement of purchasing theory knowledge: It is not an exaggeration to say that domestic purchasing teams are all "eight roads", but it should be in recent years that domestic universities set up purchasing and logistics or supply chain management majors. In other words, most of the current on-the-job procurement personnel have not received formal procurement education, and most of them have received the experience of their predecessors at work or gained it by groping at work. Even short-term on-the-job procurement training has a low penetration rate. Although the actual combat experience is very important, the Tubo Road finally won the world, but after liberation, the generals of the Tubo Road were sent to study the theory of war. Similarly, it is very important to learn theoretical knowledge if purchasing wants to improve itself. You need to master the most basic theories and methods.

Today, we have reason to believe that there are still many wrong or unprofessional ideas and methods flooding in many enterprises. Small enterprises can do things well by relying on Tuba Road, but their development and growth need many professional purchasing managers, especially going international. The theoretical knowledge of procurement can be improved by self-study or participation in CPM, CPIM and other training, as well as the training of domestic procurement personnel. There is specialization in the industry, and there will be specific responsibilities and requirements after purchasing a specific position. Procurement within the requirements of responsibilities needs to improve the corresponding professional knowledge to complete the work well.

Professional knowledge can be improved by participating in the company's internal training, learning from predecessors or peers, inviting suppliers for training, industry exhibitions or supplier product display, etc. Secondly, the improvement of professional skills, such as bargaining power, inventory control ability, supplier development ability and so on. Improving yourself in the field of vision, enriching your knowledge and broadening your horizons are conducive to improving your ability to judge, analyze and solve problems, and also conducive to future career development.

The improvement of vision includes two aspects. On the one hand, as a purchaser, you can't just understand purchasing, but always look at the problem analysis from the perspective of purchasing. We also need to know the basic knowledge and processes of planning, production, sales, SQE, etc., so as to better cooperate, communicate and handle internal relations.

On the other hand, purchasing cannot be limited to some laws and experiences of one's own industry or company. When I was studying CPM, I found that many students were limited by previous industry experience or the company's existing practices. They always talk about what our company did before, and I don't know what the company's practices may be just right for this company, or what the company's practices are not the most suitable, or even wrong.