The Study Of The TD Supplier Management

The supplier management in an effective way is very important for the stability and development of procurement. Supplier qualification determines the level of service; Effective management of the supplier's stability and development of procurement is very important. Supplier qualification, supplier determines the quality of service; the materials prices from suppliers seriously effect the product's cost; the materials quality seriously effect the quality of the product; the lead time of materials also seriously effect the product's manufacturing time. The supplier management mainly includes supplier selection and evaluation, supplier performance evaluation, and to establish strategic partnerships with best suppliers, and so on. The supplier management is the foundation of supply chain management and important content. Suppliers are the best resource for the procurement of sustainable development.This article takes TD corporation's supplier management as example, and tries to make profoundly research from five aspects as below:Firstly, it analyzes the background and purpose about the study of the TD supplier management, combines correlative research fruit of Chinese and foreign countries. Secondly, it analyzes the relative theory of supplier management, including supplier selection and survey, supplier classification, to establish strategic partnerships, etc; Thirdly, it analyzes the status of TD supplier management. Fourthly, combining the theory of supplier management, it analyzes deficiencies of TD supplier management and main reasons; Fifthly, it puts forward some resolutions of the TD supplier management, and suggests establishing supplier management organization and improving management process, construction information exchange and sharing system with suppliers, introducing JIT, VMI systems, and strategy cooperation with excellent suppliers etc.