Purchasing Alliance Perspective on Development Trend of.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 11 Purchasing Alliance Perspective on Development Trend of A, purchasing alliances Development Status A, purchasing alliance conditions for the emergence recently, the ‘coalition’ to become the hottest in terms of retail medicine. It is clear that the retail pharmaceutical industry so far, the Alliance has become a trend. Has arisen due to the procurement alliance, I believe that there are two main aspects: First, the big chain drug stores across the pharmaceutical companies and medicine a generation, directly asking the manufacturer to supply, commonly used to do around the branches concentrated in the headquarters of United Mining (joint purchasing), or to adopt unified (unified procurement) methods, resulting in a stronger the purchase price advantage, but because throughout the small chain stores and small in scale, do not have the ability to buy directly from the manufacturer, so the only way to become an alliance. The second is the parity pharmacy price war, leading to a sharp decline in profit margins drugstore chain, making par after the other profit model has not yet formed, coupled with our pharmaceutical distribution has the reserve price, cash price, wholesale, retail price of the unspoken rules issues of Chain Drug Stores from the pharmaceutical companies, the procurement of goods, at least for the fare increase with a few links, the high purchase price. Of Chain Drug Stores from individual agents (cash reserve price getting goods from the manufacturer), or the hands of getting goods from the vendor salesman (generic medicine manufacturers is to upset the same way most salesman from its own factory getting goods), pharmacy received only pharmaceutical company and a generation of liquidity in advance only. The two procurement methods, chain drug stores to get the price in fact generally high, meaning that their margins on the low side. In this context, two major chain stores springing up as the procurement alliance came int