Analyse And Study On Purchasing Management Of Shandong Wal-Mart Supercenter

Supermarket is one of the most important format in the retail industry, it has very important significance to the level of national price regulation and the daily lives of ordinary people. Currently, with their financial strength, advanced management concepts and experience ,foreign supermarket companies are actively expanding the business scale and market share in China. The local supermarket companies are disturbed due to various factors and faced great challenges and financial difficulties. Among them, the procurement management capacity and level restricted local supermarket chains to enhance the overall business management. Therefore, how to enhance the purchasing management level of our local supermarket becomes an important issue for the retail industry. Meanwhile, there is huge difference between urban and rural and regional in the Chinese retail market, foreign supermarket chains have taken place more or less management problems. With the retail industry and supermarket chains in China continues to develop, foreign supermarket chains begin to pay more and more attention to Chinese consumers and conduct in-depth research and constantly revised their own problems, improve procurement to better meet different consumer needs of consumers in China. Wal-Mart is the world's largest retailer, has become the first Fortune 500 companies. In 2010 it is topped the Fortune Global 500 companies again . Wal-Mart has the advanced management concept, retail technology and management experience, as the objectives and role model to retailers to learn. At present,Wal-Mart is actively developing the Chinese market .The author based his working experience in the retail business, combined with study on supply chain management and category management theory, carries out detailed analysis and study on procurement management for Shandong Wal-Mart supermarket as a simple, especially combining the applications in supply chain management and category management, summed up the advanced experience and methods in procurement management of the foreign supermarket, trying to establish a theoretical model in procurement management for the supermarket chains ,searching for suitable procurement theory and practice systems to provide references for the Chinese supermarket companies.