Global Mould Purchasing Management Research Of Ficosa Group

Purchasing management is an important section for manufacturing enterprise development and routine operation. Globalization makes opportunity to Chinese mould makers which have capability to supply moderate qualified moulds to Ficosa Group. At same time, Ficosa is search-ing source to meet harder cost pressure from most of car maker. For this strategic mould cost saving program, Ficosa established global mould purchasing department. How to establish an efficient purchasing organization? How to evaluate mould cost difference between European makers and Chinese makers? What kind of relationship will Ficosa establish and maintain with Chinese mould suppliers? Those questions are main topics of thesis.By searching management thought within these three questions, this thesis compare advan-tage and disadvantage of all kinds of costing method, centralized purchasing and distributed purchasing, Relational purchasing and transactional procurement. Based on status report which includes Ficosa profile, main product introduction, current target costing, distributed purchasing and transactional purchasing relationship with Chinese mould suppliers, Analysis and improve-ment action are main body of thesis. In this part, conclusion is proved out by customer demand, interior needs and demonstration. Ficosa will use Life Cycle Costing as measurement tool in global mould procurement team. It is really time to establish centralized purchasing department and build long term relationship with suppliers for costing saving. Following up with several ex-amples to compare the cost saving, there are data of European mould maker and Chinese mould maker comparison, different Chinese mould supplier comparison as well. That is evidence of Chinese mould is competitive. Conclusion section briefly summarized all of standpoints of the-sis.