Authors: Liu bao-hong

In 2012 February, I went to Shanghai Jiaotong University, MBA to have training in purchasing and supply chain management. This MBA Jiaotong University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, focus on global operations and supply chain management, it can be said that the domestic this domain "Whampoa　 military academy ". Two days of training, echo is good. After the conversation, there are several MBA mentioned, this training from the top surface to the procurement and supply chain management, but if you can speak more orders operation level things just fine.

The order operating level? The company a year to spend hundreds of thousands, call you MBA to, can not let you go under the orders. But suddenly think, also figured out: the order is supply chain management is an essential molecule (the other being the supplier ), although look vulgar, actually otherwise. Procurement and supply chain issues, mostly from the two molecules of the negligent treatment. The MBA had done, not familiar, but know ask questions; professionals to do every day, but " just because in the mountain ", busily Kanjia, expected to recover, really can do, can solve the two dimensions of scanty.

We start from the two triangles is mentioned.

On the left side of the triangle is a lot of the current situation of the company: most of the effort in order to purchase dimensions, such as documentary, place an order, expected to recover, inspection, delivery, payment, all in fire condition, press played a dipper gourd, the result is diverted the supplier management dimensions of time, leading to the supplier has important but not urgent nothing can be completed in time, or simply have no time to do. These important but not urgent matter, for example the supplier selection and performance management, if processing is undeserved, later to the order level, has become an important and urgent matter, further eroding the supplier management dimensions of time, forming a vicious spiral, the result is that the whole procurement organization in the daily operation of the mud. There is a company, with annual revenues more than 10000000000 yuan, but from the Chief Procurement Officer, down to the buyer, half the time on the road, at the supplier site Dundian, shortage and quality problems in busy be scorched by the flames, for example. Benign circulation from the right hand s