Homepage > CMRC understandings > 【CMRC understanding】After the purchase of low value medical consumables, what are the opportunities for foreign pharmaceutical and mechanical enterprises in the Chinese market?
Hits:1746 Createtime:2022-04-03 15:07:11
Low value medical consumables mainly refer to disposable sanitary materials (such as gauze, cotton swabs, gloves, syringes, etc.) often used by medical institutions in the process of carrying out medical services, which can be divided into medical sanitary materials and dressings, injection and puncture, medical polymer materials, medical disinfection, anesthesia consumables, operating room consumables and medical technology consumables. Procurement with quantity refers to the direct bidding between the state and pharmaceutical machinery enterprises, and the required procurement quantity is publicized in the bidding announcement. In the bidding process, we should not only consider the price, but also consider whether the enterprise can bear the corresponding production energy. The bid winning enterprises exchange low prices for greater sales, make small profits and sell more, and save huge sales expenses. In order to make the price of medical equipment return to a reasonable level, the state successively carried out the procurement of medical consumables in various provinces and cities in 2019. The scope of implementation is also expanding, from the initial provincial alliance to the inter provincial Alliance (four provincial alliance, eight provincial alliance, etc.).
Thanks to the growth of medical demand, China's low-value medical consumables market will maintain a high-speed growth trend. According to the market research results, it is predicted that it will exceed 100000 million yuan in 2021. Under the national policy of volume procurement, the market share of volume procurement in the future needs to reach 60% - 70% of the total procurement, which means that the market share of non volume procurement only accounts for 30% - 40%.
Therefore, the current low-value medical consumables market has both opportunities and challenges for foreign pharmaceutical and mechanical enterprises. Basically, there are two choices: one is to compete for the market share of volume procurement; Another option is to compete for market share of non volume procurement.
China's volume procurement policy treats foreign-funded enterprises equally, and foreign-funded enterprises can compete with other brands. However, due to the particularity of the volume purchase market, foreign-funded enterprises need to focus on three points if they want to enter this part of the market: first, the overall market share of medical consumables has maintained growth, but affected by volume purchase, the industry profit margin is declining. How to reduce costs and increase benefits is the core issue; Second, the cycle of purchasing with quantity is usually one year. Whether the production capacity and quality of products can meet the purchasing quantity during the purchasing period, and whether the bid can continue after the expiration of the purchasing period, the enterprise needs to layout in advance; Third, when selecting the shortlisted varieties, volume procurement has the tendency of mainstream brands, and the brands that are admitted first have more advantages in winning the bid. Striving to enter the medical insurance catalogue and strengthening hospital cooperation are the key to ensure the screening advantage.
Of course, foreign-funded enterprises can also compete in the non volume market. This part of the market is mainly decided by the hospital itself. Before the implementation of volume procurement, well-known imported brands had high distribution coverage and large market share in public hospitals above level II. Compared with other domestic brands, this part of the market share is more competitive for foreign-funded enterprises. Due to the confidentiality of the bid winning price in the volume purchase market, the product cost in the non volume purchase market is no longer the focus of foreign brands. If foreign-funded enterprises want to strengthen the recognition of hospitals and occupy a larger market share, they should focus on R & D and quality.
At present, China's medical consumables market has gradually changed from a "seller driven" market to a "buyer driven" market under the policy of volume procurement. Although foreign-funded pharmaceutical machinery enterprises can compete with other brands, if they want to improve their competitiveness, they need to layout the non volume market in advance, focusing on improving the popularity and coverage of the brand in the hospital. (source: Zhongyan Century Market Research Co., Ltd. the opinions in this article are for reference only and are not used as investment suggestions!)