Abstract: In the process of deepening the reform of the medical and health system, purchasing process as an important link to control health care costs, has an important influence on the formation of drugs and medical consumables value chain. Compared with drugs, medical consumables have the characteristics of complex and diverse models, varieties, manufacturers, etc. So the purchasing system of medical consumables is urgently needed to establish and standardize the procurement. This paper, regarding the classification of procurement as the research object, analyzes the necessity of material classification, and referring to the typical medical consumables purchase mode, probes the existing problem and puts forward some suggestions and solutions to improve the classification system of medical consumables.