Electronic components buyers five importance capabilities

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Some strong negotiation ability and communication ability may have the opposite effect when purchasing components, and the cause of excess inventory may also be that you don't pay attention to these jobs. The accumulated resources and contacts of buyers can play a key role in what period? Today we're going to talk about purchasing.


Does negotiation ability mean blindly striving for interests?

• if just strive for favorable conditions for enterprises will cause the supplier to lose all profits. Maybe will cause the supplier to retreat and supply inferior products to maintain cooperation.. Therefore, the ability to negotiate components should be more about win-win.

• And you should know how to judge the price and supply situation of components. While trying to strive for favorable conditions for the company, you also need to remember to reach a win-win cooperative relationship with suppliers. This is a healthy procurement and supply ecology.

The key to communication ability turns out to be listening

• Coordination ability is not only the ability to supply with suppliers or other partners, but most importantly the ability to communicate and coordinate with the team.

• Communication skills are not about being eloquent and making others unable to refute what they say, and not about suppressing subordinates forcefully, but about ensuring what the team needs most at the moment and meeting the team's most urgent needs. And find the essential cause of the problem and solve the source problem for the team.


Ability to allocate funds reasonably

• Component procurement often need a lot of money，, which requires the procurement manager to make a reasonable allocation of project costs, including seeking more favorable payment terms with suppliers.

Warehouse scheduling capabilities

• The excess of components leads to a large amount of expired inventory, or the failure to purchase in time leads to shortages of components purchased at high prices. this is the reason why costs cannot be reduced.

• When purchasing components, you need to plan based on your own warehousing situation. The warehouse situation is also based on your own production plan, material requirements, and the storage and consumption cycle of components. Therefore, this is also a very important job for the purchasing manager. 

Adaptability

• When component shortage How to solve the problem? If you have stable and trustworthy suppliers and reliable supply, then your procurement work will not be a big problem.

• At that time, if there was a shortage of production capacity, or if materials were unavailable due to policy changes, then the purchasing manager would need to use the resources and contacts accumulated in daily life to quickly find a new solutions, so adaptability is very important.