Research On Strategic Purchasing Of FD Company

With the economy globalization, new technology emergence and margin space being squeezed, the environment of company is facing has become more and more complicated. In order to obtain and maintain continuous competition, the company will have to focus on internal resources and make full use of external resources. So, strategic sourcing implementation will be significantly important in improving the company’s competitiveness.Strategic sourcing is a must of which the company uses to cope with the complicated environment. And also it is a must to improve the company management. It is pointed out in the balanced sourcing that strategic sourcing is organization capability in a broader range that is6organizational capabilities. They are total cost model, creating sourcing strategy, building and maintaining supplier relations, restructuring the supplier net work, encouraging supplier innovation and also to developing global supplier base. Actually, there is no organization of which has developed all of the6organizational capabilities. The first3capabilities are the core processes to define the development the supplier base and applicable for any company. The total cost model is the base of the whole sourcing process. Creating the win-win sourcing strategy pushes the changes from traditional sourcing to strategic sourcing. Building and maintaining supplier relation focuses on the cooperation of win-win sourcing pattern. However, how to deliver key suitable capabilities is significantly important in maintaining the company’s unique competitiveness.Then how to implement strategic sourcing so as to improve competitiveness? FD company is cited as an example. Upon the strategic sourcing process, method and management introduction,3key successful factors are identified on how FD company develops its unique competitiveness. And then issues and lessons for strategic sourcing are summarized and accordingly, the countermeasures on resolving the issues are proposed so as to improve the result of strategic sourcing implementation. Car manufacturing industry has been leading the new strategic sourcing pattern. Sourcing is becoming a strategic, cross-functional activity. However, local China companies are still at traditional sourcing stage of which depends on "traditional bidding". The implementation of strategic sourcing of FD company has provided very good lessons and experiences for quick shift from traditional sourcing to strategic sourcing.