Research On Improvements Of Purchasing Management For S Automotive Parts Company

With the steps of the 21st century, the automotive industry in China springs up rapidly that enjoys a blowout market of automobile. Owing to the division of labor based on specialization, a tendency that the automotive parts manufacturer separates from an automobile group company emerges in the industrial chain. On purpose of the lower cost and the better competitiveness, the automobile company purchases the automotive parts worldwide by a preferential program on the basis of a comparison on quality, service, price and technique, while the automotive parts manufacturer is no longer confined to the original group company.Aiming at the purchasing management for S Automotive Parts Company, the author supplies a serial of measures to optimize internally or improve externally by case-study research in light of purchasing management theory, such as establishing a strategic status for the purchasing department in the whole organization, adjusting the purchasing team and reporting lines in the framework, introducing the project management idea in the purchasing program, reconstructing the relationship with the suppliers in the routine business, completing the purchasing contract clauses in the annual purchasing agreement, utilizing the various approaches to reduce the purchasing cost in the price control.Neither completely copying the purchasing management experience in a multinational for automotive parts from Europe and U. S., nor simply following that in an original automobile group company, the author insists on selecting the essence to adapt to S Automotive Parts Company for optimization or improvement, which can help itself increase the viability in the market.