The Procurement Service Analysis Of IBM

Procurement strategy is very important part of enterprise operation, and has been widely concerned by more and more enterprises and related departments. As the phenomenon of economic globalization has been presented so far, the customer service and products demanded with higher requirements. Procurement, simplily, is to change the products or service with money. In the buyer’s market, such a flow almostly without any difficulty, but in recent years, more and more enterprises and supply chain workers realize the important meaning and rich connotation of the procurement strategy. In the procurement of products and services most enterprises have been accounted for 60%~80% of enterprise capital, and thus the procurement decision-making plays a very important role in the cost of corporate control. In addition, half of the company’s products problem are related to the substandard raw materials and services.IBM is the world’s largest company with information technology and business solutions, the employees reached about 300000 people all over the world. The business has spread to more than 160 countries and regions. IBM as a leader in the industry, as a stand firm for one hundred years, has been a model for many companies to learn. In terms of procurement strategy, IBM provides two types of procurement services: one is for business customers to provide procurement solutions services, the other one is to provide customers with procurement outsourcing services. Procurement solutions, through consulting and platform for enterprise customers to provide a set of global procurement solutions, so that customers can accurately identify their own needs, select the most appropriate suppliers, and effective management of supplier performance; procurement outsourcing, IBM ueses their own procurement center and a complete supply chain procurement system, directly provide the products and services to customers.Firstly, the author studies the domestic and foreign procurement strategy and related theories, as well as status quo and problems in domestic and foreign enterprises in the procurement field. It is very urgent and important for enterprise to use professional globalization procurement strategy.Secondly, the paper analyzes the status quo of IBM in the global scope, provides the global procurement solution for the customers, and provides the reference and help for the enterprises to choose their own procurement strategy.Finally, learn from IBM procurement service, tell the good and bad and look forward.This paper is based on IBM procurement process, specification and platform, doing a thorough analysis for the procurement service which IBM provides. It is a good paper for those enterprises which need the professional procurement service to learn, but also a better learning and reference for those people who work for procurement service or related.