The Research On Supplier Management Of A Company

Enterprise competitions are becoming more and more intense in pace with the increasingly widespread business activities cross nations around the world. Who own the competition superiority, who will own market. To strengthen their own competition superiority, more and more companies have realized to emphasize developing and utilizing resources from outsider, especially from the suppliers besides using their own resource efficiently. Since it is one of the best ways to utilize out-side resources for companies, more and more companies began to emphasize supplier management and to put it on the position of enterprise strategy.On the basis of consulting with lots of materials and discussing with related management officers of A company, this paper studied the status of supplier management and its major contents in A company, pointed out their outstanding issues and root causes on supplier management activities:over quantity of suppliers, poor supplier service, poor suppliers quality. It also lays out improvement solutions for these issues by applying the relevant knowledge of supply chain management and supplier management, such as supplier development, classification theory and relationship management, etc. These solutions include:supplier strategic orientation, supplier development procedure, supplier classification management, supplier information management system build-up, relationship management to different suppliers, risk management on supplier management. In the end of this paper, it lays out the act steps and some notes on implementing these solutions, as well as having prospects to these actions implementation result.In the age of supply chain management, supplier management level determines the ability of companies utilizing outside resources and forming their own competition superiority. To achieve the target of enhancing the whole supply chain competitiveness and company strategic goal, we ought to form the strong sense of supplier management and supplier relationship management, setting up supplier management method and system suitable for ourselves.