Research Of Process Enhancement For Supplier Quality Management In Company U

Globalization in economy has become increasingly blurred the boundaries of customers and suppliers which leads to the dependence of both also. To obtain advantage in the fierce market competition, any enterprise must have a core competence that has its own characteristics. In many factors of the core competitive capacity of enterprises, there is no doubt that the quality of the product is the most one. With the steady growth of enterprise outsourcing business, especially for manufacturing companies, both internal quality control and supplier quality management contribute product's final performance at customer side. To win in the environment which has many homogenous products, the enterprise has to make innovation on the product design details all the time. While that is not the end.To upgrade its quality level by effective supplier control and reach a win-win situation, has become an important topic of the enterprises'quality manager.Company U is affiliate of a large multinational group belonging to Taiwan ASE, a wholly foreign owned enterprise. It is the world leader in the industry of EMS (Electronics Manufacturing Services) which has excellent quality performance recognized by tycoons such as Apple, IBM, Lenovo etc. Product diversification has become a normal phenomenon as affiliates around the world has been established increasingly which leads to its huge supplier chain. Company U has to build a differentiated quality management system based on its differentiation of criterion from different customers.The article, by means of analysis based on some key factors of supplier quality system in company U to find the possible solution for many actual problems it encounters now and also this is for reference of decision-making for company's high levels. At the same time, I hope it can bring some management tips to peers in EMS.