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Author Liu Baohong is the founder of the supply chain Management column (www.scm-blog.com) and executive director of Sith International. Has more than ten years of supply chain management experience. Graduated from Tongji University in Shanghai with a master's degree in project management, then went to the United States to study in the Business School of Arizona State University with an MBA degree in supply chain management.

Liu Baohong has written a series of supply chain books. This book focuses on the role of procurement in supply chain management from the perspective of procurement and supply chain management. The first part is the overall view of the supply chain, which introduces what the supply chain is from the perspective of horizontal function division (procurement, production, operation, logistics) and vertical flow (information flow, product flow, capital flow). And pointed out a lot of pain points in supply chain management, the examples are very approachable, can really reflect the problem. The second part is to manage the supplier well in order to manage the supply chain, and the third part is from "small purchase" to "large purchase", which affects the total cost. I haven't read these two articles yet, but I can also feel from the title that the focus is obviously on the purchasing side.

The overall View of supply chain

Only by managing the supplier well can we manage the supply chain well.

From "small purchase" to "large purchase", affecting the total cost

The real solution, however, lies in "difference", that is, changing practices. For example, if you manage the demand well and plan well, there will be less urgent demand, so you don't have to rush the goods with the supplier every day; if you dock the product design and process design, the cost will be low, so you don't have to bargain with the supplier once a month. To strengthen the construction of information systems, the degree of informationization is higher, and more trivial chores are done by information systems, so that you do not have to work overtime until late at night, and put resources into places with higher return on investment, such as demand management. "

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