Study On The Supplier Quality Management Of KSTAR

Today, quality is becoming a focus of sociate, let's take a look at an important section of company business operation - Supplier quality management. Supplier quality management is a part of company supply chain, at the same time, it is belong to quality management of company operation as well. The level and perfomance of supplier quality management will conduct effect to company surviving situation and development. So, supplier quality management is an important theme to all kinds of company, whether the company is a manufacture or a transfer, whether labor force oriented company or intellect oriented company.From the whole sociate environment, any company or orgnization is on a middle position, company should be someone's customer, and another someone's supplier. The company management scope has been extened from company internal to external, both to customer side and supplier side. In most cases, company owns strong power in selecting supplier, so it will be no reason that company would not choose a supplier who is able to build a long and stable cooperating relationship. Meanwhile, in all selecting criteria, quality is absolute decisive condition, same as other important condition, which including engineering, manufacturing, cost, and delivery. Putting quality requirement into selecting criterion at the first beginning of choosing supplier, will be the most effective method to conduct quality assurance. Single source in selecting supplier is a quite worth strategy to be considered, though it often regard as a source of some kinds of potential risk.Evaluation to supplier quality through quality audit is an effective method. From company side, the key of quality audit will focus on product and manufacturing process, it will be different from thrid party audit, focus on quality management system. Enhance control force to supplier manufacturing process will strightly conduct effect to supplier outgoing product quality, and the confirmation to supplier manufacturing process will be great helpful to judge the validity of supplier quality management system running. The main part of quality control in supplier quality managment, is building a data collection system which reflect supplier quality status/performance and quality related process operation result in supplier. For handling critical and important quality issue, corrective action report will provide an excellent logic and methodology about problem analysis and solving procedure.KSTAR company is a fictitious organization which focus on high technology product manufacture in this thesis, which main product is industrial sensor. The discussion will talk about above items, according to situation in KSTAR, the method mentioned in discussion have been used in practice sucessfully.