The Research Of AM Company Material Supply Management Stratege

The purpose of this thesis is to help AM Company to improve their supply management, ensure supply continuity, reduce material and purchasing cost, enhance quality of purchased material, increase the flexibilities of supply chain and core competence. The object of this research is AM Company which is a U.S. invested automotive gauge manufacturer.The thesis consists of four main parts. First of all, it introduced the background, significance and approaches of the research as well as the theory of supply management and discussed the disability of traditional purchasing management and the request and the difference of supply management under the environment of supply chain management; then, the thesis briefly introduced AM Company and analyzed in detail the current status and problems existed in supply management; aiming at AM Company high material purchasing cost, lack of purchasing strategy, material supply interruption, low material standardization, excess material items, high inactive material inventory and severe end-of-shelf material obsolete, the thesis developed supply management positioning strategy, total cost reduction strategy and supply risk management strategy to solve these problems; and then, the thesis developed supply base rationalization strategy, tiered supplier management strategy, supplier relationship strategy and supplier evaluation and motivation strategy to solve the problems caused by excess suppliers, lack of sound supplier selection and evaluation process as well as supplier relationship management; finally, the thesis summarized the problems existed in AM Company supply management and the according strategies the thesis developed, and also suggested AM Company to put scorecard approach into practice to smooth out the implementation of these strategies so as to help AM Company improve supply management and enhance the capability of supply chain.