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Procurement Practices and Procedures
Procurement Practices and Procedures
Omkar Sawant
Omkar Sawant
Receipt of MPRM (Material Procurement Request Memo) from the concerned businesses. Review on the requirement, understanding the specification. Floating enquires to respective vendors. Select vendors based on those whose offer is in line with the requirement.
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Based on best price and delivery the order is placed on selected vendor. Receipt of material at site and processing the bills for the same. Ensure payments to the suppliers made in time. Evaluation and revaluation of vendors whether end customer is satisfied.
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Project Planning: Includes the project layout, resource allocation. Material Planning: As per the project plan, purchase requisitions are generated and forwarded to purchase team with technical specs. Floating enquiries: Detailed technical enquires to be floated to the vendors.
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Evaluation of offers: A special system window is maintained wherein the vendors can upload the offers online and the same can be evaluated. Offers are basically classified as technical offers and commercial offers. Detailed Engineering Consultants (DEC)can be appointed to evaluate the technical offers, wherein a check can be made whether the offer is in line with our requirement.
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DECs add up to the cost, but expedite the process and help for efficient procurement. The commercial scope is with the buyer and negotiations can be made accordingly. Order Placement: Once techno-commercial offers are finalized, order is placed on vendor who is technically ok and price competent along with the best delivery.
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Order placement: This process has various levels of approvals involved. - Commercial concurrence (Audit) - Approval to Division Head/Project Head. - Issuance of order to vendor as per the hierarchy.
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Expediting: Once order is placed a follow up is required to ensure on time delivery. Some companies appoint separate expediting team to follow up the vendor, to frequently visit his works and evaluate whether the vendor has enough capacity to meet the requirement and supply in time.
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There are many standard practices that can be absorbed such as commercial audit at time of order placement, involvement of DECs. The same have a cost impact but can help to streamline the process and improve productivity.
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