Materials management policy
The materials management policy is an area of corporate policy. It "includes all efforts, actions and measures that aim to organize, influence or directly define and control the materials management process."
The materials management policy is divided into the three areas of planning, organization and control. Your tasks are the formulation of the goals aimed at by the materials management, the determination of the resources to be used, the determination of the use of resources and the control of the achievement of goals.
Functions
Commitment and control function
The company management is obliged to formulate or approve the materials management policy. Materials management is then both the carrier and target group of materials management policy. This means that they have to design their own area ( self-design ) as well as that of the suppliers and consumers ( external design ). The results of the materials management activities can be controlled by comparing them with the goals anchored in the materials management policy.
Harmonization function
On the one hand, materials management policy must be coordinated with company policy; on the other hand, it should avoid differences between materials management and other company areas.
Information function
It is particularly important to inform suppliers and consumers about the materials management policy.
Motivation and activation function
The explicit formulation of the materials management policy underlines that materials management is a management task.
Target groups
In addition to company management, materials management is the primary carrier of materials management policy. If it becomes the target group itself, it is called self-creation . Internal external design exists when the users are selected as the target group. If the suppliers are the target group, one speaks of external design .
Levels of action
Materials management policy at the bonus level means influencing the flow of goods from the supplier to the consumer and vice versa. The monetary level of action includes the financial flows: both the flow of money between the buyer and the supplier as well as internal value flows. The dispositive level means information and decision-making processes. The levels of action can be influenced individually or in combination.
Policy fields
By combining the target groups and the levels of action, different policy areas can be derived.
| Target group \ level of action | monetary | bonetär |
|---|---|---|
| Materials management | ||
| Suppliers | ||
| Consumer |
Depending on the stage of development of materials management policy, only certain policy areas are active. For example, the monetary and bonus-related levels of action in materials management (self-design) and the monetary level of the target group suppliers are active in the procurement of supplies.
Selected materials management policies
A distinction is made between selective and holistic materials management policies. The difference is that with holistic all target groups and all levels of action are addressed. Selective forms of materials management policy are z. B. the stock procurement and the individual procurement if necessary . The production-synchronous delivery (just in time) and the delivery-synchronous production belong to the holistic materials management policies.
See also
literature
- Oskar Grün: Industrial materials management. In: Marcell Schweitzer (Ed.): Industriebetriebslehre. 2nd Edition. Munich 1994, pp. 447-568, ISBN 3-8006-1755-2 .
- Rallis M. Kopsidis: Materials Management: Basics, Methods, Techniques, Politics . 3rd revised edition. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich / Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-446-19163-1 .
- Hermann Witte: Materials Management . Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-486-25519-3 .