Purchasing means a lot within the enterprise. In China, procurement is often the department with the most extensive internal management of enterprises, and there is a lot of room for improvement and potential for cost reduction. At the same time, procurement is also a bridge and link between enterprises and supplier resources, which has a huge impact on the efficiency and quality of the supply chain.
Undoubtedly, if an enterprise wants to achieve digital transformation, procurement must be the first fortress that needs to be overcome.
How Enterprises Can Realize the Landing of Procurement Digital Transformation
Recently, Deloitte released a CPO report, showing that the two topics of efficiency improvement and cost reduction have always been ranked in the top two, and the third is procurement digital transformation. Therefore, the digital transformation of procurement plays an increasingly important role in the transformation of the supply chain
I have summarized some requirements of the procurement director for the procurement system, a total of 6 points.
The first point is that it is easy to use, because the entire procurement system is end-to-end, from procurement application to financial settlement, it will involve many departments, including demand departments, procurement departments, warehousing, quality, and finance. There are suppliers. If you are not an easy-to-use system, it will be difficult for you to make this procurement system usable, and everyone will complain a lot.
The second point is to improve efficiency. During the entire procurement system construction process, we must focus on improving the operational efficiency of procurement and the entire supply chain to consider how to make it more efficient. Only in this way can the procurement system be brought into full play. Maximize value.
The third point is that it must be applicable. This is the most critical point in our procurement system, because our business processes for purchasing different procurement categories are different. If the procurement system you establish is a process, you must not use it. To start with, you have to define different end-to-end business processes based on your different procurement categories and different procurement strategies, so that the same procurement system like yours can make it maximize its value.
The fourth point is visibility and intelligence. We won’t focus on this part, but we must remember that there are many intelligent tools in the procurement system, which does not mean digital transformation. We should pay more attention to whether the enterprise has realized the value and value it wants. asked for.
The digitalization of enterprise procurement needs to be used first, which can really optimize the enterprise process and realize comprehensive data connection.