Chemical industry: one of the most suitable industries for e-commerce

　　When it comes to e-procurement, many people feel that it is a very abstract concept.

　　In fact, e-procurement is a kind of technological innovation of traditional material procurement business of enterprises. Just like telephone and fax machine, it provides a tool for enterprise procurement personnel to complete the pricing process.

　　From the perspective of global procurement development trends, with the rapid development of the Internet, electronic procurement will be more and more widely accepted by business managers.

　　Fang Xingdong, chairman of the Internet Lab, believes: "The premise of the development of e-commerce in the traditional field is the standardization of commodities, and pharmaceutical and chemical products are undoubtedly the most suitable industries for e-commerce."

　　At present, many multinational companies have obtained a considerable part of the items they want to purchase through electronic procurement, and some companies' electronic purchase amounts to tens of billions of dollars a year.

　　Someone has done such statistics, and the benefit obtained by reducing the purchase cost by 1 yuan is equivalent to selling 5-15 yuan more products. It can be seen that the purchase cost largely determines the ability of the enterprise to "bid". Especially for the chemical industry, due to its complex product types, close supply chain relationships, large number of enterprises, and large number of transactions, it is necessary to introduce an open, fair, and fair e-commerce management platform to effectively implement electronic procurement.

　　Electronic procurement, as an important form of e-commerce, is the inevitable development of procurement. It has changed the processing method of traditional procurement business, optimized the procurement process, improved procurement efficiency, and reduced procurement costs.

　　In 2006, CNPC stated that since the launch of e-commerce, the purchase volume has exceeded 70 billion yuan, which has saved the group more than 3 billion yuan in procurement funds. And pointed out that the final price obtained through e-commerce transactions is about 5-10% lower than the market price on average.

　　Another large domestic group recently signed a contract with Bilian Procurement Network, hoping to innovate the traditional procurement model through e-commerce platform, realize fast procurement, reduce production costs, and build a good platform for the timely communication and coordination of branches .

　　Nowadays, under the reality of different sizes of chemical industry enterprises in my country, experts point out that informatization has become a bottleneck problem that restricts the further development of chemical enterprises. An Internet procurement management platform similar to Bilian Procurement Network not only provides procurement management services for enterprises, but also helps enterprises achieve strategic procurement, improve order management procedures, and expand market exposure.

　　On the one hand, through the electronic procurement process, shorten the procurement cycle, improve procurement efficiency, and reduce manual operation errors in procurement; through electronic bidding, electronic inquiry and other procurement methods, form more effective competition and reduce procurement costs; on the other hand, according to the supply You can choose the best source of goods through the historical procurement data of the supplier; through supplier management, you can reduce the circulation of procurement, achieve end-to-end procurement, and reduce procurement costs; at the same time, with the help of the entire electronic information data, judge and understand market conditions and Inventory situation, scientifically make purchase plan and purchase decision.

　　It can be seen that the third-party electronic procurement management system is an effective platform to solve the bottleneck problem of chemical enterprises, and the chemical industry is one of the most suitable industries for e-commerce.