Optimization Study Of M (China) Company's Suppliier Management

With the economic integration and procurement globalization,supply chain management has become one of the core contents of modern enterprise management.Supplier management is the starting point of supply chain management.Suppliers determine the price and quality of products,and further affect the comprehensive competitiveness of enterprises.Therefore,how to optimize the supplier management is not only the key work of the current enterprise,but also one of the urgent research topics of experts and scholars word-widely.The headquarters of M(China)company is a century-old American automobile company,whose main business has always been the research and development,manufacturing and sales of passenger vehicles.With the changes in the global automobile industry,especially the rapid development of the Internet,AI and new energy technologies,new competitors keep emerging.As the world's largest auto market,China has led the world in the application of new technologies such as green manufacturing and electrification.M(China)must keep up with the Times and shape itself that's the only way to survive in the future.M(China)company has been using the supplier selection and evaluation system developed by the headquarters in the United States.Its current supplier evaluation and selection focuses on price,quality and delivery.The purchasing department will evaluate the supplier's price,and the SQ management department will evaluate and rate the suppliers on-site,and then summarize to determine whether the supplier is qualified or not.There are risks in this evaluation process: first,the process is not reasonable enough and lacks the participation of engineering department.Second,the supplier evaluation index system is too simple and fails to incorporate relevant indicators of green development and electrification.In addition,M(China)does not pay enough attention to key suppliers,and the supplier classification management needs to be improved.This paper introduces the theoretical knowledge of supply chain management and supplier management through a large number of literature review and collection,and then analyzes the macro environment and automotive industry environment of M(China).Finally,according to the current situation of M(China),the main problems are sorted out: the supplier evaluation index system is not perfect,the supplier selection and evaluation process is not standardized,and the supplier classification management method is not reasonable.The corresponding causes are identified: the supplier evaluation index system is not objective and comprehensive enough,the supplier selection and development is dominated by a single department,and the key suppliers are not paid enough attention to.And its optimization suggestions were put forward: the process optimization of potential supplier selection and evaluation,with the actual case by using Analytic Hierarchy P rocess(AHP)to improve supplier evaluation index system,further to given the current supplier classification management advice.I hope this paper can provide guidance for the transformation of M(China)company,and also hope to provide reference for relevant manufacturing enterprises.