China's Auto Manufacturing Parts Procurement Management Studies

Automobile parts are the foundation for the development of the automobile industry. If the parts industry is not as a powerful backing, it is impossible to have international competitiveness of the automobile industry. It can be said to some extent that competition in the automobile manufacturing industry is the competition between automobile parts. Automobile parts purchasing management is an important component of logistics management. Scientific purchasing management can reduce the operating cost of production and assure product and service quality, which bring huge economic benefits to the enterprises. Although purchasing management is so important, there are many issues to be resolved in China's automobile parts industry. This paper is focused on this issue.This paper based on the views of present study summarizes the concept and features of purchase and purchasing management, the contents and objectives of the purchasing management. Secondly, in order to reflect the problems that exist and quo status of China's automobile manufacturing parts purchasing management, this paper compares the characteristics and advantages of auto parts purchasing management between Japanese, American and European purchasing management from the angle of automobile parts purchasing model, formulation of automobile parts purchasing strategy, cost control and vendor management and cost control in automobile parts purchasing system. Finally, this paper proposes countermeasures on how to improve the purchasing management of China's automobile parts from automobile parts purchasing model, key components of automobile parts purchasing system: automobile parts purchasing strategy, purchasing information management, purchasing inventory management, logistics and transport and purchasing performance evaluation.