In the context of the financial crisis, more and more enterprises are beginning to try new modes and new channels of e-procurement, which can not only solve the black-box operation problems in the traditional human procurement process, but also greatly reduce the procurement cost of enterprises and promote enterprise procurement. Innovate with supply chain management to create new competitiveness for companies.

It coincides with the implementation of this survey in the “post-crisis era”. The China E-Commerce Research Center found through surveys of global online buyers that online buyers have shown the following ten trends:

(1) Online and offline combined procurement trends Today, although online procurement has been favored by major companies. However, in the traditional procurement method, the company still plays a big role by virtue of its many years of procurement experience and accumulated suppliers. At present, many companies adopt online and offline procurement methods to complement each other's advantages. It can be seen that this approach will become a major mainstream purchasing trend in the future.

(II) The trend of combining specialized and integrated B2B platforms For buyers, how to choose an electronic trading platform is crucial. At present, all major enterprises prefer the B2B procurement platform with extensive industry coverage and more supplier resources. The professional e-procurement platform, with its natural advantages such as the number of suppliers in the industry, is gradually favored by enterprises. Both have their own advantages, and no one can replace them. Therefore, the combination of specialization and integrated e-procurement platforms will become a trend.

(3) The micro-foreign trade platform is favored by buyers' purchases and is affected by the financial crisis. The purchasing behavior of overseas buyers is changing. Foreign short-selling wholesalers have short-term and small orders with high frequency, replacing the long and large orders of the original large and medium-sized wholesalers. The emergence of a large number of overseas grassroots buyers is driving the transformation of the “Made in China” trading method, which brings opportunities for rapid development of e-commerce platforms with micropayment online transactions as the core.

However, since the small amount of foreign trade is traded as “selling goods”, the normal goods that originally received foreign exchange and commodity inspection and quarantine were sold as “samples”, in the four major foreign trade fields of customs, foreign exchange, taxation and intellectual property. E-commerce platforms are likely to have large legal risks.

(IV) The ASEAN Free Trade Area has gradually become a buyer procurement trend. On January 1, 2010, the world-wide free trade zone, the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area, was officially launched. More than 90% of China and 10 ASEAN countries will implement zero tariffs on more than 7,000 products. ASEAN e-commerce is developing rapidly. With the opening of the free trade zone, ASEAN will undoubtedly become an important channel for buyers to purchase.

(5) Personalized customization into the procurement trend In the history, consumers only passively accept product designs, functions and features that others think are appropriate. In the future consumer world, what we see is that consumers are increasingly involved and devote themselves to determining their own needs, and there is a growing trend toward product customization. Many products are not produced in large quantities like today, but in small batches, produced according to specific design requirements.

(VI) Small and medium-sized buyers show the trend of becoming the main body of online procurement in the future. Under the profound financial crisis, the China Electronic Commerce Research Center found that the foreign trade pattern has gradually undergone profound changes, and the pattern of a few importers controlling the foreign trade market has been loosened. Some new small and medium importers have begun to try import trade. The purchasing behavior of overseas buyers has changed from large-value, centralized, and long-term procurement to small-to-medium, decentralized, and short-term procurement.

The short orders and small orders of foreign small wholesalers have replaced the long and large orders of the original large and medium-sized wholesalers as the mainstream trend in the future.

(7) Buyers show that the trend of commodity procurement trends that favors cost-effectiveness finds that consumers at home and abroad are increasingly demanding the price/performance ratio of goods. Therefore, buyers must constantly search for new products, thus distinguishing themselves from competitors, thereby maintaining a high profit margin and avoiding the homogenization of products between buyers and buyers. A vicious price war.

(8) The network procurement method has been unitized to diversified. The traditional procurement methods and channels are relatively simple, but now it is gradually favored with network procurement. The network procurement method is also rapidly diversifying. Firstly, it is combined with global procurement and localized procurement. That is, enterprises choose a more suitable supplier in the global market, rather than being limited to a certain region.

(9) Social responsibility environment with a general focus on purchasing goods According to statistics, more than 200 multinational companies around the world have formulated and implemented corporate social responsibility codes, requiring suppliers and contractors to comply with labor standards, arranging company employees or entrusting independent review bodies to The contract factory conducts on-site assessments on a regular basis, which is often referred to as factory certification or factory inspection.

(10) Conditions for low-carbon and environmental protection into international procurement With the advent of the “low-carbon era”, people's awareness of environmental protection has increased, especially in Europe and the United States, which attaches great importance to environmental protection. Products entering the European and American markets must pass a series of strict Certification. Therefore, whether the product is environmentally friendly and low in carbon has become a necessary condition for buyers to choose suppliers. And ensuring the environmental protection of the production process is an entry point for Chinese suppliers to pay special attention to and strengthen in the future production of enterprises.