A Reseach Report Of Changhong Multimedia Group’s Suppliers Management

With the flat-panel TV age’s coming, the TV products life cycle become short andshort. The supplier management, be seen as an important value-added process, attractedconsiderable attention from the senior executives. Changhong Multi-midia Group(CMM group) believes that an efficient supply chain should be part of the corecompetitive power of this group.Since the TV industry be more like IT industry, the competition became fiercer andthe TV manufactures need more effective procecure cost management and lead-timecontrol. The electronic commerce (B2B mode) make the revolution of the suppliermanagement be passible.Firstly, this paper analyse the tremendous change of the TV industry’s influence tothe CMM group, point out that procurement management and lead time control shouldbe the key performance index to evaluate the competitiveness of CMM group suppliermanagement and put forward that electronic procecure is essential for updating themanagement level.Then, this paper use the supplier grading and classification tool of Ronand Bergerto analyse the procecurement price decision process, and put forward CMM group’sown supplier grading and classification project.Thirdly, this paper use the schedule management method of project management toanalyse how to control the lead time of the procurement, and put forward usingimformation system to partly solve this problem.Finally, according the reseach and analyze above, this paper proposes the supplierrelationship management (SRM) imformation system’s framework and model, andanalyse key funtions such as procurement price decision, supplier evaluation, purchaseorder management and stock management, shows the achievements of SRMimplementation and summarizes the experience of the processing.