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The Choice of Material Procurement Mode of Beijing Metro Company

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In recent years, the development speed of the Beijing subway system has increased, So an efficient scientific procurement and supply mode is needed. This paper starts with the current situation of the Beijing Metro Company. It investigates the status of the material procurement mode and the problem with this mode. Then the thesis use multi-criteria ABC classification to classify materials to apply the mixed procurement mode. For important materials, use centralized procurement mode. And keep the original scattered procurement mode for unimportant materials or the materials which is not suitable for scattered procurement mode. This mixed procurement can not only reduce cost, improve the effectiveness, but is also easier to carry out.

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This paper is supported by Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 713900334), “EC-China Research Network on Integrated Container Supply Chains" Project(Grant NO.612546)” which is from EU Seventh Framework Program(The People Program), Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University(Grant No. NCET-11–0567)and the Lab of Logistics Management and Technology.

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Zheng, Y., Shi, X. (2015). The Choice of Material Procurement Mode of Beijing Metro Company. In: Zhang, Z., Shen, Z., Zhang, J., Zhang, R. (eds) LISS 2014. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43871-8_25

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