Purchasing Management Applied In Enterprise

Purchasing management is the act or skill of directing the purchasing work of a company, which is not only the base of a company's inner supply chain, but also a bridge of supply chain between enterprises. Therefore, it plays an effective role in cutting cost and the improvements in efficiency to enhance competitiveness.At present, purchasing management in enterprises has not been paid full attention to yet. And it can not, to a great extent, get a comprehensive understanding. The present thesis looks chiefly into the connotation and the importance of purchasing management, and puts forward some suggestions of how to carry out purchasing management, how to improve the processing management and merit system as well. Then with the analysis of supplier selection and purchasing strategies the author concludes his new theory of supply chain management, which has a direct bearing on purchasing management, and makes an approach to such a theory, so as to discover its basic qualities that importance must not be attached to purchasing conduct ,but the strategic co-operation relationship with supplier. Furthermore, grounded upon the above discussions, Just-In-Time Purchasing Strategy has been carefully defined and pored by expounding its features, its effect to reinforce the competitiveness, and its implementation. In the case presented in the thesis we get some details about suppliers' check-up and election process under the thought of supply chain management. In the end, the author proposes how to improve purchasing management level to face the future challenge.