Six Sigma Management Applications Study In Supplier Management

With rapid development, the competition is more and more severe especially in electronic products, only low cost and high quality to make sure the top rank, so suppliers'selection and management are very important. Normally, the selection rules are Quality, Cost, Delivery, Flexibility, Technology and Service, however, most compliance are caused by poor material, so quality is much important than others, it's the key to success.Previous method such as incoming inspection or on-site inspection can't control material's quality and manage suppliers well, so, in order to improve this situation, to introduce Six Sigma method to manage suppliers, to dig out every detail process, to find key process factor, to improve yield rate and quality, to establish cooperative win-win supplier relation, then to reduce purchase cost.Six Sigma is an improved way and compensation in supplier management compared with current method: ISO9000, QS9000 and TQM. Introduce the method to find root cause, make improvement, reduce material failure rate and establish win-win relation with supplier based on DMAIC procedure of Six Sigma via providing an actual example (Supplier A).