A Company Supplier Quality Management Study

Nowadays, the auto market competition has been increasingly fierce in the global. Moreover, the more competition is gradually turned from traditional pure price competition to the quality oriented direction. The quality has become a key to keep competitiveness for all the carmakers.Under the environment of supply chain, quality management is no longer confined to the enterprise internal management.Only if getting a close cooperation from the partners of the supply chain, executing a good job on supplier quality management, or it could not be possible for the carmaker to ensure a good product quality from the source. Therefore, the research on supplier quality management has important practical significance.Focusing on the subject of A company, this article deploys its study of supplier quality management. It first summarizes the development course and current situation of the supplier quality management in our country,then expounds the basic theory and tools that is usually used in the supplier quality management activity.After that, the paper analyzes current situation of A company’s supplier quality management, focuses on its supplier quality management system (ASM).And then, this article analyzes the problems existing in the supplier quality management of A and its cause. Finally, using related theories and tools, the paper puts forward some countermeasures to improve the supplier quality management of A, including strengthening supplier project feasibility study process; increasing PPAP process audit in supplier early serial production after SOP; pushing supplier to implement "change point" management in production process; supporting the ascent of supplier management ability; optimizing the structure and responsibilities of ASM, taking improvement actions on ASM training, implementation and supervision; changing supplier performance management philosophy from "score" oriented to "result" oriented, and so on.