Improvement Of Suppliers' Management Of Zound Industries AB

With the development of technology, the technique is improved dramatically. The electronic products come out with the fast speed which out of people's imagination. At the same time, the shorter the lifespan of the electronic products are, the fiercer the competition among enterprises occurs. People are used to facing with the war of price and the war of brands among enterprises. However, what hide behind these wars? It should be the products'development cycle and core-competitiveness. Who can produce the best products soon, which will take the advantage of the market. Therefore, It's far from enough for enterprises themselves to do so, they must depend on suppliers who have a good relationship with them. Good relationship between suppliers and enterprise are critical for enterprises to survive. The fate of enterprise is affected by suppliers'location, price and development ability. So, the reach on Suppliers'management has certain extent significance for enterprises'development.Firstly, the author objectively analyzes not only the status of the suppliers in electronic industry, but also the Zound Industries itself. Also the suppliers, the suppliers'relationship, the suppliers'relationship management and the ways of suppliers'evaluation such as qualitative analysis, quantitative analysis and combining quantitative and qualitative methods are all reviewed.The significance and values of suppliers'management is analyzed and discussed as well. Secondly, The author enumerates the different types and characteristics of suppliers in Zound Industries, and lists the suppliers'problems during management. Then the author finds a way to solve the problem with suppliers management after deeply finding out the root of the problems in research. That is setting up a system of suppliers'choosing and evaluation management, which includes the suppliers' introduction, the suppliers'evaluation, the content of KPI, the ways and results of KPI, suppliers'category and rewards and punishment for suppliers with different KPI results. Finally, the author gives a conclusion about evaluation system of suppliers' management. And the potential problems, which will be faced with during system carries on, are solved with proposals, and the achievement is showed in the end.During improvement of suppliers'management, not only organization and internal management are clearer, but also responsibilities among departments are enhanced. Suppliers well know about self-value and begin to strengthen their completive, at same time company will be benefitted by this kind of actions.