Importance of strengthening material procurement management

Material procurement is an important link in material management of construction enterprises. Effective control of material procurement process is of great significance for reducing project cost, saving expenses, increasing profits, improving market competitiveness and improving economic benefits.

1. Situation

With the development of socialist market economy, the mode of material procurement and supply has undergone profound changes, and the traditional planned supply system has been broken, but the new procurement and supply mode has not yet been established. What kind of procurement and supply mode to adopt is an important topic that many material workers have painstakingly explored in recent years.

2. Main problems

At present, due to the imperfect market system, imperfect legal system and inadequate management, there are some problems that cannot be ignored in material procurement and supply, such as delegating the power of material procurement to the construction project department. It is said that this can mobilize the enthusiasm of the project manager, reduce the intermediate links of supply, be flexible and convenient, and greatly streamline the management personnel of material supply and reduce the cost of material management. However, from the actual situation, this practice does more harm than good, and there are the following disadvantages.

2. 1 centralized procurement of materials, construction enterprises must have a professional team with proficient business, certain theoretical knowledge and practical work experience and excellent ideological style, pay more attention to quality and price when purchasing materials, and give full play to the role of the professional team, which is conducive to the development of enterprises. The price difference generated by purchasing materials is an important part of the comprehensive benefits of enterprises, which embodies the overall interests of enterprises. Decentralized procurement weakens the construction and role of professional teams, and the benefits of material price difference are only reflected in the local interests of project management departments, which cannot highlight the overall strength and advantages of enterprises.

2.2 The outline of the Ninth Five-Year Plan and the 20 10 long-term plan have clearly stated that actively developing new marketing methods such as distribution center, agency system and chain operation, and changing the circulation mode in the traditional planned economy period, centralized procurement of materials can form the group's material batch advantage and obtain preferential prices. However, some project managers purchase in bulk, so they are not a batch, and often purchase from the market in the form of retail, so it is difficult to enjoy the most favorable price of the manufacturer when purchasing. In the transportation of materials, due to the small quantity, it is easy to happen that the railway is less than one load or the tonnage of automobile transportation is not enough, which increases the procurement cost and affects the economic benefit of the construction project management department.

2.3 Many current engineering quality accidents are caused by unqualified materials. Through centralized procurement, because there is a procurement team with high professional level and good comprehensive quality, which has strong adaptability to the market economy, it is possible to choose the best factory, identify and compare the products of various material manufacturers, compare the quality and price, make fewer mistakes, reject counterfeit building materials products and ensure the quality of the project. However, if the construction project intends to purchase materials by itself, it is easy for non-professionals to purchase materials for local interests or even selfishness, and there is no quality guarantee or material certificate from time to time, which can not guarantee the quality of the construction project.

2.4 centralized procurement of materials will inevitably form a pattern of complete separation of material suppliers and users within construction enterprises, thus improving the quality of building materials? Double control? First of all, material buyers control the quality of the materials they purchase and accept the supervision of the warehouse manager. Second, it is supervised and controlled by the project department of the user unit, which can further control the quality. However, some project managers purchase in bulk, which leads to their own purchase for their own use, lack of supervision and control mechanism, quality problems are easily covered up, and on-site opinions cannot be reflected, making fake and shoddy products easily flow into the construction site, leaving hidden dangers for construction quality.

2.5 The cost of building materials accounts for more than 70% of the total capital investment, which takes up a lot of money. If you want to buy all the materials of each project in the early stage of construction, the construction project management department can't afford it financially, but when construction is needed, temporary procurement loses its advantages in quality and price. Centralized procurement and supply, from the perspective of the whole company, from the overall interests, according to priorities, reasonably and emphatically organize supply, balance funds, co-ordinate enterprises, and minimize the inventory of each project management department.

3. Effective procurement methods

3. 1 Bidding procurement is a common procurement method in the international market and is favored by business colleagues all over the world. Bidding procurement means that the procurement unit informs the public of the bidding conditions such as the variety, specification, model, quality and quantity of the materials to be purchased, and all bidders participate in the bidding according to the bidding requirements. Under the principle of openness, fairness and impartiality, the bid evaluation committee of the purchaser will select the supplier with the best conditions as the winning bidder and sign the supply contract or agreement. Purchasing materials by bidding for infrastructure projects is the continuation of project bidding and the objective requirement of orderly competition of production materials. In today's material buyer's market, the application scope of bidding procurement is wider and wider, and its advantages are more obvious. The main advantages are as follows.

3. 1.65438+ This provides excellent opportunities and conditions for reducing the cost of direct procurement. In addition, there is more room for selecting suppliers, and manufacturers with closer transportation distance can be selected to win the bid, which reduces the number of purchasers going out, which also provides space for reducing indirect procurement costs.

3. 1.2 Before bidding, the enterprise should conduct a credit investigation on suppliers, fully understand and evaluate their performance, and make a qualified or unqualified judgment on suppliers according to their performance, so as to control the quality of purchased materials in advance.

3. 1.3 Bidding procurement can change the situation of layer-by-layer procurement and layer-by-layer reserve, reduce the backlog of materials, speed up capital turnover, improve capital circulation and improve capital utilization.

3. 1.4 Because suppliers have a fair competition environment, unfair competition will be greatly reduced, and material circulation will operate according to the laws of market economy, which is conducive to the rational allocation of social resources and the establishment of market economic system.

3. 1.5 Due to bidding? Trading in the sun? , avoided? Black box homework? So as to put an end to and reduce the breeding and spread of corruption in material procurement.

3.2 Key work

At present, bidding procurement is still in the exploratory stage, and there are still some problems to be solved urgently. Therefore, in the process of implementing the bidding management mode, we should focus on the following work.

3.2. 1

From the practical point of view, the promotion of bidding procurement can not be achieved overnight, and it is necessary to take advantage of the situation. Through briefings, news media, meetings and other forms, we can introduce and exchange typical cases of domestic enterprises' bidding and procurement and the bidding and procurement situation of our own units, gradually form a momentum and raise people's awareness.

3.2.2 Summarize the experience of bidding and purchasing, determine the types of materials suitable for bidding, define the scale and scope of bidding and purchasing, and implement compulsory bidding according to the Bidding Law and other relevant laws and regulations and market supply and demand.

3.2.3 The fund management of bidding materials is related to the success or failure of bidding work. Therefore, for the funds needed for bidding and purchasing materials, the fund demand should be approved according to the bidding plan and consumption quota, and this part of funds should be settled in a unified and centralized way after bidding to avoid the influence of self-purchase caused by fund allocation on bidding.

3.2.4 Departments related to materials subject to tender should strengthen communication and cooperate closely, and give priority to the funds needed for materials subject to tender; To overcome the phenomenon of design and construction; Material planning management should give priority to checking the demand and arrange as soon as possible; The bidding department shall formulate strict planning and upgrading procedures and measures.