Research On Management Of Contract Manufacturer

With the entering to the 21st century, in the intense market competition, many companies have their own market positioning on core technology and products. Enterprises'development counts on the success of core competence. Outsourcing non-core but important business units to those specialized suppliers is an effective approach to free up themselves to fixate on the construction and development of their core competence business.Leica Geosystems outsource parts of research and development of product, production and assembly, quality management, procurement and logistics distribution through cooperation with Contract Manufacturer. Meanwhile, invest more time and money into the core technology development, market channel expansion and brand marketing.This thesis mainly illustrates the elementary concept and theories of contract manufacturer and supply chain management, focuses on the discussion of the selection and management of contract manufacturer as supply chain's strategic cooperation partner, how to select and evaluate supply chain's strategic cooperation partner, try to establish a evaluation criteria system and so on. This paper is based on the practice of Leica Geosystems Ltd. in China, describe the procedure and approach to select contract manufacturer in Leica, and analyze the current condition and existing issues in the contract manufacturer, finally , put forward the suggestion and solution according to author's point.