Partnership Automotive Industry Parts Supplier Evaluation And Selection Study

As the fast development of both global economics and the mode of supply chain management, it brings the Chinese automotive industry both opportunities and challenges, and the importance of strategic partnership between automotive manufacturers and their accessories suppliers becomes more and more obvious. Facing numerous accessories suppliers, it is the focus of automobile manufacturers to learn to appraise and select partners scientifically, all-around and effectively, and later establishes favorable partnership.Based on comprehensive literature review on supplier evaluation criteria and methods, the paper proposed an evaluation criteria model according to the characteristics of the automotive companies. Through interviews, some criteria were canceled, and then questionnaire survery began within about ten automotive companies. Then the data collected was analyzed with the statistic analysis software SPSS. Factor analysis was conducted with the data from the first stage questionnaire survey using SPSS, and 11 factors were identified. In the second stage of quesionnire survey, the paper applied AHP for weighty analysis about every factor using the data, so that it formed a set of new and systemic evaluating criteria for the automotive industry, which contains 13 first class criteria and 45 second class criteria. After all that, the author analysized and summerized the results.Through the empirical research it indicates that, the criterion of the supplier company's credit is very important for the auto company in selecting a supplier, getting the second place of all the criteria. Meanwhile, the previous experience of their cooperation is also a very important criterion as hypothesized in the model.Based on the previous methods, the paper applied the fuzzy integral to evaluate the suppliers using the criteria achieved above, and gave a case as example. It's verified the effectiveness and feasibility of both the evaluating criteria and the method.At last, the paper summarized the whole and looked up the deficiency, then pointed out the way of future research in the field.