Research On The Procurement Management Of JD Automatic Storage & Retrieval System Project

The research and practice of project procurement management start late in China, plus some objective reasons, which have a large gap compared to the world's advanced level. Because lacking of advanced project management theory and methods of guidance, JD Automatic Storage & Retrieval System project procurement management also has many problems, such as lacking of purchasing management scheme, contract management,production process quality supervision, acceptance, follow-up service and other sectors of the management needed to be strengthened. The development and evolution of these issues will become the bottleneck for enterprise development.Through the case of the JD Automatic Storage & Retrieval System project procurement, this thesis researches the Automatic Storage & Retrieval System procurement management including the project procurement, project procurement bidding program, project management, procurement tender follow-up management and so on.First, this thesis selects the project procurement management mode. By comparing and the analysis the advantages and disadvantages of five kinds of common project procurement management, proposed JD Automatic Storage & Retrieval System overall D-B project procurement management mode. In the traditional D-B mode, the owners built model design and generally used lump-sum contracts form, once the construction period, cost and quality changes, disputes always happened between the owners and the general contractor. To make up deficiency of the D-B models, in the JD Automatic Storage & Retrieval System project procurement management, the owner only proposed project concept and basic needs, the bidders involved in developing project-specific requirements, designed implementation of the program, determined construction of models, equipment modeling, project budget and so on through the project. Meanwhile, confirmed the contractor separately for the part of civil engineering, but construction management is still talked charge by the general contractor. In this way, we can ensure the quality of civil engineering, control the outsourcing cost of general contractor, and don't influent the enforcement of project management as well. Through selecting the mode of D-B procurement management in the JD Automatic Storage & Retrieval System project, we can turned construction management into procurement management, and the professional general contractor will deal with the specific issues, which can give full play to designer's wisdom, reduce the dispute because of the understanding difference between owner and contractor, and resolve the problems in the stage of programme design to the full. For the enforcement of the project management, JD Automatic Storage & Retrieval System project hired procurement professionals to set up a project team involved in project design and equipment installation and to coordinate control equipment installation and technical training for construction and commissioning process.Second, this thesis design of the bidding program about project procurement. On the basis of the project management mode, this thesis designs the project procurement organizational structure, clarifies the project procurement process, confirms the procurement methods and establishes the evaluation index system. As equipment and software that have higher maturity of the market and more brands required by JD Automatic Storage & Retrieval System project, to save effort of the tender, JD Automatic Storage & Retrieval System project procurement of equipment adopts selective tendering to implement procurement. The project procurement team is in charge of learning about the market situation, finding out features and difference in the mainstream product, choosing the appropriate production enterprises to participate in the bidding process, adopting the comprehensive evaluation method.The evaluation criterions about equipment procument of JD Automatic Storage & Retrieval System project include two parts of commercial affairs and Technology. About designing the index of bid evaluation, the parts of commercial evaluation aims at examine the qualifications and quotation. In the qualifications, bidder should accord with the prescribed requirements of bid invitation, especially possessing the qualification of general contractor in construction. So, the bid submission of organization as designer will not be accepted. In the quotation, the tenderer who quotes the lowest price will get the full marks (30), and the marks of other tenderer will decrease according to the relative value. Technology evaluation will give overall check to design and construction of tenderer, laying emphasis on the programme of design, type selection of equipment, the demands of civil engineeringFor the part of JD Automatic Storage & Retrieval System civil engineering, as more construction team, construction budget more transparent, using inquiry procurement, review rationality of all construction enterprises offer according to engineering scale, using the lowest evaluated bid price to determine the construction business.To ensure the openness, fairness, impartiality in bid invitation and bid submission activities of JD Automatic Storage & Retrieval System project, the thesis puts forward the management measures of the bid evaluation process from the preparation, procedures, and supervision.Third,this thesis researches the follow-up management of the invitation of bids. From the reality of JD Automatic Storage & Retrieval System project procurement, on the basis of researching the project procurement contract management, quality management and contract closeout, this thesis proposes that acceptance and after-sales service should be included in the scope of management. As a key focus of follow-up management about the invitation of bids, author establishes implementation standards, makes certain of management contents.(1)When it comes to JD Automatic Storage & Retrieval System projects with more than one contractor, the general contractor usually takes all risks since lump-sum contracts is used, except for some special ones, such as owners change their requirements, the law is changed or some unpredictable difficulties occur. Contract management should focus on the management of relations between the contractors.(2)Procedure quality control is the most crucial factor in determining the quality of the equipment procured. The quality deficiency of the equipment is usually invisible, some of them will gradually reveal themselves only after being put into use. Besides, repairment is difficult to do. Therefore, preventative measure is the best way to guarantee the quality of the equipment procured in JD Automatic Storage & Retrieval System project. We should comprehensively control the procurement procedure during the stage of designment, manufacturing, transportation, installation, test and acceptance.(3)Acceptance of the project is the final step in concluding the contract and improve the quality. In this stage, the quality of the project could be thoroughly checked, the quality standard of designment and specifications could be quarantined, and potential deficiency that may inhibit the normal usage can be detected and solved in time. When the project is concluded or comes to one certain stage, the in-time acceptance of the project is beneficial and meaningful to not only the project owner and contractor, but also the project itself.(4)The basic function of after service is to demonstrate the value of the product as comprehensively as possible, and to provide customers with valuable add-on service. Most factors of after service are very abstract and hard to describe, which makes it difficult to objectively estimate the quality of the service. A large portion of the JD Automatic Storage & Retrieval System project is to test the equipment and train the operator, and the demanding requirement of equipment quality means regular maintenance. Thus, the procurement after service management in the JD Automatic Storage & Retrieval System project should firstly clarify the service boundary, stipulate the rights and obligation of both sides, and demand contractors to build comprehensive user archive and after service system in training, maintenance and components supply and technical consultation.