Study On Supplier Of Strategic Material Selection &evaluation Of U Company

Supply chain management is to manage the value chain of products from suppliers to customers.It manages the information flow,product flow and capital flow in the whole value chain.In modern enterprises,due to the division of labor,enterprises can't complete all production activities by themself.Under the trend of global integration,the competition of enterprises has evolved into the competition of enterprises' ability to manage supply chain,especially for the foreign trade industry which the author is engaged,the management ability of enterprises to supply chain directly affects the core competitiveness of enterprises.In the supply chain management,it is an important part identify the strategic materials of an enterprise,select the appropriate suppliers among the strategic materials suppliers to establish a strategic partnership,evaluate and manage them,which can reduce the cost of the whole supply chain and improve the efficiency of the supply chain.This paper analyzes current management situation of U company where the author works.Through the analysis of U company's operation data,author found that the company is in the stage of high growth and low profit.The sales volume of the company keeps a high growth while the profit margin continues to decline.The reason is that the growth rate of procurement cost is higher than the sales volume.Through further discussion and analysis,the author proposes that U company needs to establish centralized procurement of strategic materials and established strategic cooperation with suppliers of strategic materials to reduce procurement costs and increase the sustainability of the supply chain.The premise of strategic cooperation is to establish a scientific selection and evaluation system of strategic suppliers.Based on the data and management status of U company's suppliers,this paper uses Kraljic model to identify four types of strategic materials for U company,and then determines the strategic suppliers in the four types of strategic materials.This paper extensively refer to the research of scholars,also based on the current situation of U company,use export scoring method to set up six kinds of evaluation indexes of strategic suppliers,including product quality,price and sample,supply level,service level,enterprise qualification and cooperation willingness.In addition,AHP is used to set the weight of each evaluation index.At the same time,the new selection and evaluation index system is used to select U company's color box strategic suppliers.