Displaying the Unique Role of E-commerce in Supply of Raw Materials

摘要

The cornerstone of the steel industry's survival and development is a stable, continuous, efficient and high-standard raw material supplying system. Along with the severe competition in the international steel market, steel enterprises face mighty pressures in the aspect of improving quality and reducing cost. Therefore, it is necessary and inevitable for the steel enterprises to pay more attention to stable quality, low cost, balanced supply and minimum capital tie-up. In order to meet above-mentioned demands, steel enterprises are confronted with higher requirements in the raw material supplying system and its management, which are generally as follows: Making more rational plan for raw material supplying and inventory reduction; Optimizing the distributing structure of raw materials, guarantee the stable quality of raw materials; Extending the scope of suppliers, and reducing purchasing cost; Carrying out bidding practice in purchasing, and improving transparency in purchasing to check down on corruption; Strengthening information exchange between buyers and sellers.