Can shopping exercise people?

Purchasing is a very popular job. Many people want to be buyers, because it gives people a lot of imagination. Zixing has been engaged in purchasing in foreign companies for many years. Today, I want to tell you something about purchasing.

1. What does the purchasing work do?

Purchasing, as the name implies, is to buy things. Procurement work, according to different customers, can generally be divided into two categories:

1. Employees in charge of purchasing employed by enterprises, ranging from the lowest purchasing assistant to the highest purchasing director and vice president in charge of purchasing, all belong to this category.

This kind of purchasing personnel are employed by a specific enterprise, and as employees of the enterprise, they purchase various materials for the enterprise.

The procurement staff of these enterprises purchase a wide range of goods, including production procurement of raw materials for production, procurement of machinery and equipment maintenance parts, and administrative procurement of some daily office supplies (printing paper, ink, office supplies, folders, purified water, etc.). ).

2. Enterprises and individuals that provide procurement services to customers. This kind of procurement is an independent enterprise and individual, providing customers with various procurement services.

For example, overseas purchasing, which we often come into contact with, belongs to this type.

For another example, many foreign merchants will entrust some domestic trading companies to buy some designated products. Then, these domestic trading companies that provide procurement services for foreign investors also belong to this kind of procurement.

Second, what knowledge and ability do you need to do a good job in purchasing?

Purchasing seems simple, but doing it well is not easy. A good purchaser needs to master these knowledge and skills:

1. The purchaser must be very familiar with the purchased goods, not only the knowledge about the goods themselves, but also the market quotation, price and suppliers of the goods.

For example, a buyer who is responsible for purchasing machine parts must have sufficient mechanical knowledge and have a full understanding of the number of suppliers in the market and the types, quality and prices of products provided by these suppliers.

In fact, many enterprises require corresponding professional background when recruiting procurement personnel.

For example, the procurement of mechanical parts generally recruits graduates majoring in machinery, and the procurement of chemical products generally recruits graduates majoring in chemistry and chemical engineering.

After recruiting these college students with relevant professional backgrounds, they will be trained in business negotiation, psychological skills and enterprise business, and then the old buyers will take them to work.

2. Purchasing personnel must have certain knowledge of business and contract law, and know how to negotiate prices and contract terms with suppliers.

3. Purchasing personnel need to have certain interpersonal skills and negotiation planning skills.

Like salespeople, buyers often have to deal with all kinds of people. We should deal with all kinds of suppliers externally, and often contact with the personnel of various departments internally to understand the purchasing needs of various departments.

Therefore, purchasing personnel must be good at dealing with all kinds of interpersonal relationships, especially when dealing with suppliers and negotiating, they should know how to grasp each other's psychology and buy the goods they need at the most favorable price.

Purchasing personnel also need strong planning and coordination ability, which is conducive to making reasonable purchasing plans, buying back goods in time and supplying the needs of various departments.

3. Is there any gray income from purchasing? Is there any risk? Is it stressful? What are the advantages and disadvantages of purchasing?

Many people want to be buyers, because they think that the buyer holds a lot of purchasing funds and has the opportunity to get kickbacks.

In reality, this phenomenon does exist in some small enterprises with irregular management.

However, in some large enterprises with standardized management systems, whether they are state-owned enterprises, foreign enterprises or private enterprises, there are rules to follow in purchasing, and suppliers and goods to be purchased are determined through public bidding or other standardized means. This greatly reduces the possibility of purchasing personnel getting repurchase and gray income through purchasing work.

Although purchasing work may not necessarily have gray income, in any enterprise, the status of purchasing personnel is relatively high. Procurement has the following advantages:

1. Eat by experience, the older you get, the more valuable you are. The longer you are engaged in purchasing, the richer your purchasing experience and the greater your competitiveness in the workplace. When you are old, you are not afraid of being excluded by new people.

He has a high position in the workplace and is respected in the enterprise. In front of various suppliers, he is sought after as a god of wealth, and suppliers dare not offend purchasing personnel.