Procurement will enter the digital era in an all-round way. What changes will it bring to the procurement industry

1n the future, “cost reduction and efficiency increase” will remain the same theme of the purchasing industry. Around this theme, what kind of new purchasing methods can help enterprises make scientific and intelligent purchasing decisions quickly? What are the new changes and developments in the purchasing industry in the future< 1n the past 10 years, the purchasing industry has gradually changed from the traditional offline transaction mode to the online transaction mode, and the emergence of e-commerce platform has made more enterprises achieve remarkable results in cost reduction and efficiency improvement. From traditional procurement to online intelligent centralized procurement, the procurement service always revolves around "cost reduction and efficiency improvement" in the future, “cost reduction and efficiency increase” will remain the same theme of the purchasing industry. Around this theme, what kind of new purchasing methods can help enterprises make scientific and intelligent purchasing decisions quickly? What are the new changes and developments in the purchasing industry in the future according to Deloitte’s 2017 global CPO (Chief Purchasing Officer) survey, most CPOs in the Asia Pacific region believe that digital technology will play an irreplaceable role in the procurement field in the next three years at the same time, in China, a few leading enterprises have started the transformation of digital procurement. Lenovo Group, for example, has implemented and used SAP Ariba cloud procurement solutions in business departments in more than 70 countries around the world. 1t has successfully simplified the procurement process and visualized the data, greatly reduced the procurement cost and effectively avoided procurement risks. Domestic leading enterprises are also involved in the transformation of digital procurement, developing digital procurement products and solutions. This means that the purchasing industry is about to enter the digital era powerful digital technology has quietly spread throughout all aspects of our work and life. Among all digital technologies, cloud computing, industrial 1nternet of things, data analysis, mobile technology, and advanced A1 / VR technology are all important elements in the development of purchasing industry< 1n the future, cloud computing will play a powerful role in the field of procurement. Through the transformation of the new cloud solution, it will provide users with a simple, friendly and intuitive interface and convenient and intelligent operation background to improve the office efficiency of enterprises, Enhance the user's sense of good experience in addition, VR technology can be widely used in online e-commerce procurement platform. By simulating virtual scenes, buyers can be placed in the scene and directly provide trial services for buyers online. For example, a business needs to buy a batch of labor protection clothing. Through VR technology, it can enter the customized scene of the seller, and immediately experience the effect of physical fitting, so that buyers can browse 360 degrees Experience products, identify product details, bring a new sense of online shopping experience. 1n addition, VR technology is also applicable to supplier management, which can complete supplier visit and on-site audit by generating virtual scene, simplify management process and achieve efficiency the intervention of the 1nternet of things can significantly improve the procurement performance people and objects can have a “dialogue”, and objects can also have a “dialogue”. This is the most magical part of the 1nternet of things. 1magine what magical effect the 1nternet of things will have when it comes to procurement. 1t is like a sensor, which acts as a conductive component in the whole supply chain flow, tracking the whole supply chain links such as materials, components, products, suppliers and even end users, helping enterprises to supervise, and also enabling enterprises to grasp the practical data of the whole procurement process in real time. 1n case of any accident in the process, the program will respond immediately, High transparency and order traceability are realized for the supply chain catalog based procurement shows more value of category data through big data analysis, digital procurement will launch catalog based procurement, which is based on the automated process of category, similar to “trusteeship” procurement, but with differences. Catalog procurement is a combination of customized product and service codes of enterprise procurement categories to build a huge category database. 1t can quickly bring supplier products into the procurement catalog, help enterprises strengthen the whole process control, realize differentiated category analysis, find sustainable cost savings in complex categories, and fully tap the data value of products the above description is based on the existing development trend of science and technology and industry, and these development trends are just the tip of the iceberg in the era of digital procurement. We always believe that in the future, there will be more unexpected intelligent and technological mode of digital procurement, and it is just this expectation that has been “luring” us to digital procurement and moving forward! Digital purchasing has waved to us, are you ready