Supplier Audit Criterion Establishment And Improvement Analysis Of X Company

In today’s world of economic globalization, customer demand is being changed frequently, product life cycle is getting short, relevant laws and regulations are constantly improved, hence, requirements to supplier also are gradually increased.Enterprises in order to be kept in a dominant position in the fierce market competition, more and more enterprises have realized the importance of supplier management, supplier audit on the selection of supplier is particularly important.How to conduct a comprehensive, objective and reasonable supplier audit, it is a problem that enterprise urgently needs to solve. Most enterprises are concerning in Quality Management System(QMS), while ignoring the supplier’s ability of Environmental Management System (EMS), Occupational Health and Safety Management System (OHSMS) and Corporate Social Responsibility Management System (CSRMS). Suppliers’weak ability on these aspects, which directly or indirectly affect the product quality delivered to the enterprise, increase the enterprise’s resources of supplier management, and affect the image and the social responsibility of enterprise and customer.Therefore, the enterprise needs to establish a set of effective and reasonable system of supplier audit. Analyze existing problems in audit mode of X company, analyze the root cause of product quality which is delivered from supplier, some quality issues are not caused by quality control factors, because the supplier does not provide a good working environment, use unsafe equipment and take long working hours etc. according to the knowledge of EMS, OHSMS, and CSRMS, design new supplier audit criterion, the criterion not only focuses on supplier QMS, but also blended in the elements of EMS, OHSMS and CSRMS. And put those indexes into supplier quality performance evaluation system, adopt Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) tool to set the weight of each index.With this new designed criterion applies to audit and select suppliers for ED project, to verify its feasibility and effectiveness.Comprehensive assessment on supplier QMS, EMS, OHSMS and CSRMS can help enterprises to select suitable suppliers, deliver stable quality products, and increase market competition. Norm supplier’s code of conduct, to comply with laws and regulations, guarantee the immediate interests of the employees of supply chain, help to increase staff to enterprise’s identity.Through subsequent supervision and audit to promote the continuous improvement of supplier management system, which provides strong support for the enterprise to strengthen the ability of supply chain management.