Potential Risk And Prevention Strategy Of Supplier Management Of Flextronics Co.,Ltd.

Supplier and manufacturer are going forward hand by hand under the drive of targeting resource sharing, cooperating and developing, benefiting and win-win result. They are depending on each other more and more and have become a close unit. Supplier’s relations with enterprise are critical to enterprise’s survival and are as important as customer’s relations. It is very necessary for enterprise to strengthen risk management and prevent harms caused by all kinds of opportunism when fast responding to market changes and cooperating with supplier to enjoy convenience.Flextronics is a large electronic manufacturer and enjoys a perfect supplier management system by the global resource deploying and the long time game playing with supplier. As economic competition condition become increasingly fierce and market demand become much more complex and varied, it requires more flexibility and stability of supplier. Under this background, this article aims to study supplier risk management of Flextronics and minimize the loss caused by unsure supplier risk, thus operating and managing enterprise effectively and promote whole supply chain efficiency.This article combines theory of supplier management and supply chain management and supply chain risk management into the research of potential risk analysis and prevention strategy of supplier management of Flextronics. Firstly, analyzes present supplier management status and introduce problems and causes of supplier management, thus figure out potential risk source. Secondly, use causal method to identify the quality guarantee risk, technique research and development risk, supply and operation risk, price and cost risk, business credit risk that influence supplier management of Flextronics. Thirdly, establish risk evaluation model to quantify risk through expert grading and the fuzzy comprehensive analysis method. Fourthly, work out effective risk control and prevention strategy on supplier developing, selecting, cooperating on the basis of risk influence factors. Lastly, review passed supplier risk cases of Flextronics to provide real reference and train of thought for coming task of supplier risk management.Hope preliminary research, exploration and practice in this article could provide guide direction for supplier risk management of Flextronics and provide some help and reference to push forward risk management application for whole electronic manufacturers...