Supplier Quality Management Research

Because of the rapid development of the global economy, not only haveintense competitions between Chinese companies, but also have serious competitionsamong enterprises in China, India, Southeast Asian countries for manufacturing field.The development of China’s wind energy industry is rather fast, now the wind energyindustry has a lot of restrictions, such as power transmission limitations. Now theentire wind energy industries enter into the re-shuffle stage, the price competition isquite fierce. Many domestic state-owned enterprises, private enterprises have aintense battle with foreign-funded enterprises The domestic state owned enterprisesand private enterprises have a obviously price advantage, so if a foreign-fundedenterprises still want to keep the leader position, have to enhance the supply chainmanagement with high efficiency and low cost, especially for the supplier qualitymanagement. If the supplier quality performance is not good, will make customerslose confidence, companies will lose market share, so supplier quality managementis very important.The present paper discusses supplier quality management related basicconcepts and theories, analyzes supplier quality related content, purpose andmeaning. Mainly focus on Wind Energy equipment manufacturer Company C ‘ssupplier audit, first sample qualification and supplier mass production. This articleanalyzes the current situation of Company C with Porter’s five forces model, andthen analyzes the supplier audits status of Company C, provides improvementstrategies for new supplier audit and corporate social responsibility guidelines andprocess auditing system improvement. Also provides specific improvement plans forCompany C for supplier samples question. Currently C company implements LeanSix Sigma, also derives supplier to use Lean Six Sigma. This article discusses how touse Lean Six Sigma DMAICL methods to help supplier to solve quality issuesthrough actual cases, then can promote company’s competition. The present paperutilizes graphical method, Platonic method, cause and effect diagram, MSA,ANOVA, two sample analysis with T distribution etc.This article focus on the supplier quality management of wind energyequipment manufacturers, that is different from Car industries, because the quantity of mass production is less, the first sample quantity is more, so the supplier qualitymanagement is not easy. This article focus on the whole major supplier qualitymanagement process include supplier audit, first sample qualification and suppliermass production, focus on the research on the three critical process. In addition,there are a few paper to do the research for supplier corporate social responsibilityguideline, this article have some research on that, also will be a trend in future.