Reseach On Selection And Evaluation System Of Suppliers For TP Corporation

With the increasingly keen social competition, Manufacturing industry has to be confronted the increasingly difficult situation, such as the shorter for product life cycles, more and more trend of customized order, higher expectation on products and service. Every enterprise has to handle difficulties such as how to satisfy customer’s requirement better so than they are able to survive in the fierce market competition and obtain better profit based on cost down. Social division requires enterprises to focus on how to improve the supplier chain management. The tide has turned the competition between companies to the supply chains they have owned. But on the top of supplier chain management, how to pick up a proper supplier is the first thing for enterprises to take into serious consideration, including evaluation methods and audit and so on, which can produce a win-win situation for both sides.The main point of this article is to study on both the theory and practice of evaluation and selection of suppliers. This essay firstly describes the internal problems of purchasing department through analysis on the current situation of suppliers chain management of TP, such as information asymmetry, poor-quality-oriented for suppliers, weak awareness on evaluation of suppliers. We learn that the responsibility for purchasing is not clear, the extensive management exists in the supplier’s classified management, over emphasis on prices, not getting suppliers involved in the early days of new products, especially in the shortage of evaluation system and mutual communications, which caused quality deterioration and development slowness.On the basis of the weakness as above, TP company reestablished the principle and classification of supplier selection, set up information system and proper evaluation systems, improved the quality and then got more profit. In the last parts of this article, the Analytic Hierarchy Process(AHP) is introduced to strengthen the evaluation and selection of supplier because of its scientific and rigorous characteristics, which is able to help company establish strategical relationships with suppliers and obtain important resources from outside for rapid development.