Supplier Selection And Relationship Management

When the companies select suppliers, they should study many system factors. Only when the companies have an overall and comprehensive supplier estimating selection system, they can judge the suppliers in an overall, proper and impersonal way. According to the long-term development strategy and core competition priority, the companies should select their own practical theory and method, and establish the corresponding working procedure and working regulation.This paper introduces the supplier classified matrix, based on that, the companies can select the appropriate suppliers and establish the corresponding supplier estimating system. Only in this way, the companies can evaluate the suppliers in a complete, proper and impersonal way. In the management of supply-chain relationship, the cooperation model of the supply-chain is the strategic cooperation relationship. The same strategy which is applied to the management of supply-chain ought to be used in the supplier management. The management of suppliers should concentrateOn how to set up and keep the strategic cooperation relationship with the suppliers. At the same time, according to the material classification of the enterprises and the corresponding relationship between the producers and suppliers owing to the relationship of supply and need, I create this paper and put the theory into practice, through combining the theory of supply chain management and analyzing some examples especially the model of the supply chain management experience of the company of TOYOTA.