Study On The Purchasing Management Of Chain Store In China

Chain store management includes 2 important parts: purchasing management and operation management. With running through the whole process, purchasing management is the core of the chain store management. Purchasing management could further be divided into several parts: organization structure design, plan management, suppliers'evaluation, category management, and performance assessment, improvement of which could bring positive effects on chain store management. Considering the domination of purchasing cost of overall cost and the tight industrial profit margin, improvements of purchasing management could produce revenue more easily and faster than product sale. In conclusion, purchasing management will not only link to the running cost of the chain store, but also directly determine the payoff statue of the chain store,so as to impact the core competitive power.Combining the advance experience in foreign chain stores and my working experience in department of purchasing in a famous domestic chain store, the paper first introduces the common organization structure of department of purchasing in both foreign and domestic chain stores; After emphasizing the importance of supplier evaluation, it is suggested that more attention should be paid to supplier evaluation in consideration of the current relation between domestic shops and suppliers; in the following, the concept of category management is introduced and further discussed in terms of the process and significance. Concerning the popular problems often occurred in category management, possible solutions are illustrated; at last, to avoid the common problem of performance assessment in domestic chain store, a new method for performance assessment of purchaser is designed according to the practical situation of chain stores.