The Study On The Supply Chain Of Small And Medium Sized Orthopaedics Manufacturer In China

Medical instruments are basics of the National People’s livelihood,and the department of orthopedics is especially support key projects of "Thirteen Five Plan".At present our orthopedics implant manufacturing industry mainly are small and medium enterprises,which are small,scattered,chaotic and disorderly competition fierce.Due to the orthopedic medical device market maturity is far higher than that in industrial technology maturity,so most of the enterprises often get the market by copying multinational enterprise’s pruducts.Business operations and supply chain management for these domestic companies are only imitate the way of big corporations,follow the beaten track,and lack of serious research and development of new products.These SMEs(small and medium-sized enterprises)has no core competitiveness.The concept of supply chain management(SCM)has been deeply in our country.However,the SMEs,which are the biggest group of Chinese firms,are confused in actual operation of the advanced management idea.SCM makes the enterprise have a quick response to meet the customer needs in the fierce competition through the coordinating operation,so that the entire supply chain from supplier to the manufacturer and then to the distributor.These advantages of SCM are not fully played in SMEs,on the contrary,many of SMEs suffer from the management thought.This article will explore the current situation and main problems of the SMEs in the Chinese medical industry in the operation and supply chain management by studying Chinese typical SMEs—— CL orthopaedics manufacturer.