Wal-Mart: "secret agent" investigate procurement corruption

The world brand laboratory (http://brand.) Message: in retail trade, commodities and entering the link purchase is corruption-prone areas, almost all companies have headaches. As in single combat before pursuing "" decentralization model of Carrefour, due to long from store class, Director, managers, and other aspects are different degrees of power possess orders, large and small moth. And other enterprise procurement "big corruption" have also emerged.

But at Wal-Mart, buyer is on the word "rot". At Wal-Mart headquarters of asset protection Department has a dedicated investigation unit, such as the "secret agent" General survey company internal procurement and other aspects of corruption.

"Secret agent": an invisible hand

At Wal-Mart, procurement staff share a common consciousness is "do not make themselves in suspected edge."

A Wal-Mart purchasing senior told reporters that the new employee, the company began to manufacture a tense atmosphere. If the company will tell you in headquarters Asset Protection Department has a dedicated team to investigate corruption, there are many "secret agent", usually in the company is not seen, who do not know who, but they may be monitored for you.

This is an "invisible" here is the tangible effect, in many enterprises, procurement staff and customers to dinner is not unusual, but Wal-Mart employee will automatically avoid company and supplier contacts.

If the original Wal-Mart procurement senior met once in embarrassing. On one occasion, he requested a Wal-Mart serving senior purchasing manager for dinner, at the same time he also requested a vendor friends but with Wal-Mart has no business. Results of the Procurement Manager informed of each other is the vendor identity, half-way to find an excuse to leave in a hurry, for fear of causing "secret agent" suspicion.

This reporter has learned that the "secret agent" will take a variety of means to monitor and control the procurement staff. They will pretend to Wal-Mart buyers go suppliers to buy things, and then compare the prices of the procurement staff on to see if there is a rebate of space. They will also ask directly to suppliers, procurement officers have no Kickback, almost all of the buyer are such investigation. In addition to the tracking in stages. Such as in procurement staff after hours, you may be tracking for a period of time, you know you have privately, and supplier contact, etc. They will investigate procurement staff and vendor relationships.

In addition, Wal-Mart will use special techniques, such as communication equipment monitoring. It is said that Wal-Mart has the filing of the Public Security Bureau, the staff of the call can be listening for.

Internal corruption is detected, the "secret agent" will go to the survey, and shall transfer to public security. According to the former Wal-Mart procurement senior revealed that once, Wal-Mart Engineering Department employees are found to be received by the supplier of bribery, "secret agent" will allow vendors to assist in the investigation, provided that, if the vendor assistance on mitigating or aggravating. It is said that when they set up a Bureau for bribery of employees "noon", vendor took the money and the procurement officer connectors, the "secret agent" hiding in the secret service, the transaction time caught the employees.