| Under the trend of economic globalization, a cost efficient purchasing process isextremely essential to a company’s core competency. For the cost that is reduced, thecompany’s revenue increases. The global purchasing department could be the potentialsource of cash flow incomes. In order to face the challenge of economy globalization, acompany or enterprise needs to focus on how to cut down costs, increase revenues andits core competency. Therefore, an advanced information technology managementprocess is very important for companies to upgrade their efficiency and methodology toan upper level to shorten their purchasing cycle, cutting down their costs, realizingenvironmental concept and increase the ethical standard in the trading process.The petroleum industry is the pillar and basic part in our country’s economicactivities, the China National Petroleum Company spends hundreds of billions Yuan onmaterial purchasing. For the raw material purchasing cost has a great proportion in thetotal costs, it is very important in cost control and revenue realizing.This article focuses on the result of a deep research on petroleum industry’sdemand on purchasing and managing. After a systematic research on the relevantinformation technology, a petroleum industry raw material purchasing managementplatform is developed. The system is based on Eclipse J2EE’s three layers distribution.By using the solution originated on B/S structure, JavaBean component technology andOracle relationship database working background. The platform can be used to realizepurchase planning, purchasing plans’ inquiry, changing of purchasing plans, purchasingresults management and purchasing contracts’ drafting. There are also some otherfunctions. The using of this platform can cut down purchasing costs, prevent unethicaltrades during the purchasing process, and improve management level and efficiency andso on. It can also simplify the purchasing cycle and operating difficulties. |