An Empirical Study On Lean Supplier Management Model Of K Company

A drastic change on business environment has brought forward a stringent requirement to the manufacturing enterprise on cost and quality of product. With a purpose of eliminating wastes, reducing cost and continual improvement, these enterprises have adopted lean theory as a strategy tool to keep the competency of the company. The supplier management based on supply chain management has been a critical step to a successful business operation, additionally cooperation between strategic partnerships and the changes from tough competition by price to lean supplying has been a inevitable trend, which requires manufactory and supplier build the competency so that they can achieve the goal of win-win.This thesis start from the lean production and supplier management ,then bring a concept that using lean theory to the supplier management to get the gapless combination of lean supplying and lean production, and the thesis is creating a model of combination of lean thinking and supplier management with a systematic expatiation on the implementation of strategic supplier management, which cover the supplier selection, supplier relationship management, supplier performance evaluation and supplier certification. Following, the thesis has given out a example of K Company as a demonstrated model of good implementation of lean supplier management as a summarized supplier management frame, it will give some guideline on supplier management to the company which is implementing lean production. Also, the thesis is effort to prove out that a successful supplier management; JIT purchasing and supplier innovation will bring the direct benefit to the company that is implement lean production. Finally, the thesis has discussed the crisis and it's countermeasure to the lean supplier management.