The Research On Supplier Assessment And Selection Of GAC-FIAT

Most of products are supplied by the suppliers. It has become an important subject for the automotive company, how to ensure the supplier is high qualification, and how to establish the relationship with supplier. The supplier assessment and selection has become one of the key factors for automotive company.The essentiality of supplier management and the method of supplier assessment and selection in Auto industry are expatiated, and take the example of GAC-FIAT company, including parts purchasing planning, supplier assessment standard established, supplier audited on-site, technical review, commerce negotiation, supplier nomination, components development, and analyze the strength and weakness of GAC-FIAT. From this analysis, it tell us that we need to have a long-term purchasing strategy plan, good relationship with supplier and a reasonable assessment system (including Quality, Cost, Delivery, Development, Management, Service) for the supplier assessment and selection if we want to get a strong competition, not just only quality, cost and delivery. Finally, it also brought forward some suggestions of supplier assessment for local automotive company according to the actual situation of automotive industry.