A Company’s Raw Material Supplier Selection And Evaluation System Research

With the market intense competition and E-commerce rapid development, the businesscompetition among enterprises have been transformed from the traditional commoditycompetition to the supply chain competition. Suppliers are the source of the supply chain, andplay the key role among the supply chain competition, thus the supplier selection andevaluation has become the important element in the supply chain management. How toestablish the appropriate supplier selection and evaluation system based on A company’scurrent situation, how to execute correctly, have become the important topic in the enterprisemanagement.First, the paper explains the supplier selection and evaluation theory history, analyzes thedomestic and foreign academic research on the supplier selection and evaluation, andsummarizes the relative theories. Secondly, the paper does the in-depth study on Acompany’s current raw material supplier selection and evaluation system, points out thepotential problems in the raw material supplier selection and evaluation index, methods andprocess. Based on A company current situation, the paper raises up the improvement proposal:establishes the new raw material supplier selection and evaluation principle, sets up theshort-term and long-term selection and evaluation criteria, introduces the updated rawmaterial supplier selection and evaluation methods of DELPHI, defines the raw materialsupplier selection and evaluation index, standardizes the raw material supplier selection andevaluation process, analyzes the market situation, does the raw material and supplierclassification, makes the reasonable control of the raw material supplier quantity, sets up rawmaterial supplier selection and evaluation team and so on. Finally, the paper analyzes andverifies the proposal feasibility by the example of four kinds of raw material.The proposed raw material supplier selection and evaluation system not only solves Acompany’s current problems, but also provides the suggestions to other multinationalcompanies on the supplier search in the China market.