Abstract: In recent years, e-commerce platform companies have gradually become the leaders of the supply chain, and have empowered the upstream and downstream members of the platform supply chain from multiple dimensions such as procurement, brand, and data. Among them, procurement empowerment refers to the behavior that e-commerce platform companies integrate supply chain resources and various basic services with the help of digital intelligence technology to provide intelligent selection, centralized procurement and other procurement services for retailers, so as to reduce procurement costs, enhance procurement efficiency and improve the overall performance of supply chain. For example, Yunji selects a number of hot-selling products, integrates the orders of a large number of merchants, and uniformly purchases from high-quality brand suppliers. While ensuring product quality, it has resulted in a 30% reduction in total purchasing costs and a consumer repurchase rate of over 80%.

Key words: procurement empowerment; risk sharing; supply and demand uncertainty; platform supply chain