Research And Development On Centralized Procurement System Based On E-Business

With the development of the era and the progress of thinking ideas, procurementmanagement is becoming the most valuable part of supply chain management andattracting the attention of the academic circles and enterprises. Electronic commercehas left a deep imprint in the current era. The traditional procurement mode can’t meetthe need of the survival and development of enterprises. Then the centralizedprocurement is arising and becoming a major bright spot in the electronic commerce.At present, large enterprises and the government can carry out the centralizedprocurement system alone and they can achieve economies of scale, reduce thepurchase cost, promote the construction of professional procurement staff and realizethe goals. Most small and medium-sized companies cannot carry out this procurementmodel.But the third-party sourcing company can provide procurement services to smalland medium-sized companies. It can collect the needs of the customers and depend ona number of advantages to get suppliers’ discount.For the third-party sourcing company, how to obtain the biggest profit is theyshould consider. When they are faced with a single kind of demand, they can easilychoose the best supplier. But faced with a variety kinds of demand and multiplesuppliers’ situation, they should think about how to get the best choice in the complexproblem. Due to the preferential conditions for each suppliers provide may be different,the results obtained are more uncertain. It requires the use of an algorithm to help thecompany to choose, so as to solve the problem of the company.The paper is to develop a centralized procurement of steel platform.The Companythrough its activities to get the order and carry out the centralized procurement by theirown system which is to manage and select suppliers. They should ensure the quality ofthe products which suppliers provide and at the same time, they obtain a better discount.Thus they can increase their strength and provide better service for customers. Thecentralized procurement system through the steel is developed by the.NET technology, the WinForm development framework, Visual Studio2010development tools, SQLServer2005database software and the UML modeling tool. In the stage of the supplierselection, the improved genetic algorithm is used to find a good solution which isproposed in a multi-product portfolio selection with multiple supplier’s problem.