The Supplier Criteria Of Supply Chain Management

Impact of supply chain management have changed the relationship between the supplier and the purchaser, shifting from hostility to closer cooperation. In the recent years, many foreign researches about the supplier selection criteria of supply chain management has been conducted. But few researches are conducted in this area in China. Therefore this research will investigate the supplier selection of medical device criteria used by domestic industries. In this research, the disposable product and other product of medical device are investigated. The first purpose of this research is to find out the new supplier selection criteria used by domestic industries under the supply chain management. The second purpose of this research is to investigate the differences of the weights of the new supplier selection criteria between the disposable product and other product of medical device.Based on the 23 indicates of Dickson's research and the indicates of other research, and the opinions of experts in supplier selection in China, the research summarizes the new supplier selection criteria and develops the questionnaire. Experts in the above mentioned industries were asked to fill the questionnaire. The investigation results were first analyzed by the Factor analysis to extract the critical criteria, and to build the criteria hierarchy. Then another questionnaire based on analytic hierarchy process (AHP) was developed and used to investigate the weights of the criteria in the above mentioned industries.This research finds out that all of the mentioned industries are considering "Quality" as the important supplier selection criteria. However, all of the mentioned industries are considering "Information" as the unimportant supplier selection criteria.