Research On The Improvement Of Supplier Management Of Zoomlion Mobile Crane Branch Company Within An Industrial Cluster

China is a manufacturing country and trying to become a manufacturing power. From the successful experience of other manufacturing powers, like Germany, the United States, Japan and etc, single enterprise is not powerful enough to support the revitalization of the industry. Therefore, it’s significant to develop industrial clusters and seek a better position in the global economic by improving supplier management. Construction equipment industry cluster is the most important part of Changsha’s industry. But Changsha’s construction equipment industry cluster has been developed unevenly. The specific performance is the leading enterprise is developing rapidly, while the matched enterprise is not strong enough to provide the corresponding support. Now the rate of local supporting, especially the supporting of those major critical component, is too low. Most of these components need to be import. In the long run, it will restrict the development of enterprise itself and the whole industrial cluster seriously. Now the enterprise, industry and government have paid more attention to this phenomenon. The thesis attempts to improve it by supplier management. The research results are of great important practical value.The supplier management of Zoomlion Mobile Crane Branch Company, which is the most important part of Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science&Technology Development Co., Ltd, is studied. The present situation and the main issues of the supplier management and the importance of the improvement are discussed firstly. And then the improvement methods, including selection of supplier, management of critical component supplier, evolution methods, implement of the supplier management, supplier management informatization and collaborative innovation are studied refer to the experience of typical enterprises in industry cluster. The key points during the implement are also considered. Contemporary modern theory like industry cluster, supply chain and supplier management are used in the thesis. Finally, the detailed security countermeasures are proposed.From the research, we can get the following collusions. In order to achieve expected effort, the project should be implemented in the form of system engineering. The support of leaders is also necessary. After the program is adopted, detailed implementation steps, executive team and resources are important for the implementation of the program. Supplier management is not only the important part of business administration, but also the important element of the supplier chain in industry cluster. Therefore, the improvement of supplier management needs the great efforts from the supplier and the demander. It also needs support from other organization like government, university, industry association and etc.