How to become a professional cosmetics packaging buyer

As a buyer cosmetics packaging material, how to shift from amateur to professional, need to understand the basic knowledge of what? The brief analysis of small make up to you, in the purchase of cosmetics packaging materials need to understand at least three aspects: one is the cosmetics packaging product knowledge, second, supplier development and management, three is the common sense that packaging material supply chain. Cosmetics packaging products is a foundation, supplier development and management of actual combat, packaging material supply chain management to improve, knowledge under the below small make up briefly recounted the three aspects:

need to know one, procurement, cosmetics packaging product knowledge

1, raw materials, raw materials is the foundation, cosmetics packaging material without good raw materials, there is no good packaging materials, packaging materials products quality, cost and raw materials has a direct relationship. As the raw material market continuously rise and fall, packaging costs will rise to float, therefore, as a good packaging materials procurement staff, not only should understand the basic knowledge of raw materials, at the same time to understand the market of raw materials, thus effectively control the cost of packaging material core. Cosmetics packaging materials mainly raw materials such as plastic, paper, glass, plastic and is given priority to with ABS, PET, PETG, PP, etc.

2, basic knowledge of mold: mold are the keys to good in cosmetics packaging material molding, tooling is the mother of packaging products, packaging products, the quality of the capacity has direct link with the mold, the mold from design, material selection, manufacturing cycle is longer, so a lot of small and medium-sized companies are all like choose male die products, on the basis of the regeneration design, and rapid development of new packaging materials, after packing, are listed. Die basic knowledge such as injection molding, extrusion blowing mold, bottle blowing mould, glass mould, etc.

3, manufacturing process: packaging products molding, combined by a variety of craft, such as pump head packaging materials by combining multiple parts, each parts are manufactured by multichannel manufacturing process, such as injection molding, surface spray treatment, by hot stamping, finally more accessories in automated assembly, forming a finished product packaging material. Packaging material manufacturing process is mainly divided into three stages, molding process, surface treatment and graphic printing process, finally the combination process. Commonly used manufacturing process has injection molding, spraying, electroplating, screen printing, thermal transfer, etc.

4, product basic common sense: every packaging products, is through the full range of packaging materials factory organization, by making the multi-channel working procedure, we according to the character of the cosmetics industry, packaging products can be divided into skin packaging, cosmetics packaging, wash protect packaging materials, packaging material and auxiliary material perfume, skin care packaging plastic bottles, glass bottles, hose, pump, cosmetics packaging materials are air box, lipstick tubes, cartridges, etc.

5, product base standard: small packets, directly determine the brand image, but also directly decided the consumer experience, therefore, the quality problem of the material is very important, at present the country or industry lack of related packaging product quality requirements, so each enterprise has its own product standards, this is also the focus of the debate over the industry.

2, purchasing will need knowledge of supplier development and management of

when you learn the material, process, quality, the below is accepted in actual combat, from resources began to understand the company's existing suppliers, then for new supplier to find the source, development and management. Purchasing and suppliers, there are both game and coordination, the balance of the relationship between processing is very important, as an important part of the supply chain in the future, the quality of the packaging material suppliers, directly determines the brand enterprise battle end market one of the important factors. Now has a lot of channels for supplier development, the traditional offline channels, there are also emerging network channel, how to choose, this also is the embodiment of the professional.

3, purchasing the couple need to know the packaging material supply chain knowledge

products, suppliers are an integral part of the packaging material supply chain, and improve the material supply chain both external suppliers, and the company's internal procurement, development, warehousing, planning, processing and filling etc. Chain to form a packaging product life cycle. As a packaging material purchasing, not only should connect with external suppliers, also want to with the company's internal cohesion, so that the package material stead fast, forming a new closed loop.

as can be seen, there are specializing in, an ordinary purchasing into a professional procurement, not three to five years, it is not realistic. From this also can see, cosmetics packaging material purchasing is not rich enough to buy buy buy just casually, this as a brand owner, they should also change concept, professional respect, respect for employees. As the mix of Internet technology and packaging industry, cosmetics packaging materials procurement will enter a professional purchasing managers' age, purchasing managers will no longer rely on the traditional gray income to support their own pockets, more will be based on their own procurement performance to prove their abilities, so that the job income and ability to match.