Research On Supplier Management Of XYZ Civil Aviation Maintenance Company

Since 1903,the Wright brothers form the United States of America test flown their invention of "Flier" successfully,after more than and 100 years of rapid development,now the civil aircraft has become an important transportation choice when people travel.Compare to other traditional vehicle,it is fast and efficient,however high casualty rate when incidents happen in aviation,it always reminds civil aviation authority,air operators and civil aviation maintenance organizations that safety is the first priority in all aviation related activity.The suppliers especially the aviation parts suppliers of civil aviation maintenance organization who affect dramatically to the quality of maintenance activities at civil aviation maintenance organizations.How does civil aviation maintenance organization manage suppliers in order to avoid invalid products penetrating internal maintenance operation system and resulting the risk to aircraft safety operations is a common subject among numerous civil aviation maintenance organizations.The thesis studies the existing problems of supplier management in details include insufficient supplier management system,imperfect supplier non-conformance reporting system and backward supplier performance evaluation.The thesis also analyzed the primary cause of these problems.Through the basic quality management theory and combine with the supplier control requirements of civil aviation authority,the thesis provide some specific measure and method for the optimization of supplier management.The measure and method include that establish the optimization of supplier management,improvement of supplier management process(Optimization of supplier approval,supervision and category process),enhancement of supplier non-conformance control system(improve non-conformance reporting process,detail non-conformance category,update non-conformance reporting system and statistics method)and establishment of real time supplier performance evaluation system.The thesis is trying to establish a set of consummate supplier management optimization scheme.The research achievements of thesis have been applied by XYZ company and obtain some achievement.It is hoped that these optimization measures can provide some useful reference for other civil aviation maintenance organizations.