Research On The Local Supplier Selection And Evaluation Of Electronic Manufacturing And Multinational Corporation

In recent years, with the global economy development, the international competition among enterprises is more and more fierce. A large number of multinational companies have come to China to find new chance of growth, especially those manufacturing center have been kept transferred to china by and by. The local purchasing activities of these companies have been taking the great effect on the economic growth, technology advancement of the area and the country. In the past several years, the local suppliers have made tremendous progress not only the quality of the product, also the management level under the market economy conditions. Even though they still have outstanding disparity compared with the big multinational companies, the local suppliers still have some relative advantage that the multinational companies lack of, such as the cost of the human resource, response rapidity, location and so on. If the multinational companies could make use of the advantages of local suppliers effectively, they will certainly to obtain the new sources of the advantage in the competition. Therefore, the research on the management of local supplier will be greatly useful on the cost reduction, overall competitiveness of the company.This thesis briefly summarized the background, fundamental conditions of the local sourcing for electronic manufacturing and multinational corporation, reviewed the research results of the supplier management up to now, discussing the research of supplier relationship management theory, including the supplier relationship classification and future development trend of new supplier relationship management,; Local supplier selection and evaluation methods, including supplier database establishment, supplier information management, supplier selection in process, supplier evaluation system; supplier performance management, including purpose and method of supplier performance evaluation and establishment of supplier performance evaluation system. Finally, this paper gave a demonstration of local supplier management for Hualu Panasonic, introduced the economic significance of localization, analyzed the present situation and existing problems of local supplier management and proposed the measures and suggestions.This thesis expects the research of local supplier management for multinational corporation could provide valuable theory and method to the multinational corporation who is to make strategy for their local procurement management. Local enterprises be in cooperation with multinational corporations, to know about the process and strategy of multinational corporations about procurement in product localization, to improve the comprehensive strength of itself and become a strategic supplier of multinational corporation, eventually to improve ability to participate in international competition.