What are the core competencies of professional procurement

20 years of rapid economic development, but we still have limited understanding of the procurement. In China university is not the original purchase this professional, it is the current self professional. But in the United States, there are 147 colleges and universities are the purchase of this professional. A comparison, we will find that the gap is relatively large.
As a professional procurement need to have four core competencies:
-1. why did you choose this supplier?
-2. why is this price?
-3. control of procurement risk through contract management
-4. win-win negotiation skills
Purchasing department as one of the functions of the company, if you can not meet the company's strategic development, it is certainly not. At this time we must think about the strategic decision of the purchasing department to meet the needs of the company's overall development.
The strategy to perform on a daily basis to select suppliers who usually low price I would choose who, if the time to do this thing from the strategic level, we need to consider the supplier's long-term planning and our long-term planning is not the same.
Procurement from strategy to implementation to have three guarantees:
-1. organizational guarantee
-2. process assurance
-3. personnel guarantee
“ 266 purchase strategy ”
- two methods: pricing strategy and purchase strategy
- pricing strategies six specific practices
- purchase strategies six specific practices