Research For C Company's China Strategic Supplier Development

Supplier development and management are critical parts of purchasing.In automobile industry,raw material can component purchasing cost shares about 70%of the total cost,suppliers'technical and quality capability impact the final customer quality,even safety,supplier development and management are critical parts of purchasing.As a large number of foreign automobile company invest in China since 1990s,drive the raid growth of Chinese automobile industry suppliers.However these foreign companies also meet new challenges in technology,quality and other areas when they cooperate with Chinese local suppliers.This research selects a foreign automobile company C Company as an example,start from the specific problems which occurred during C company's China strategic supplier development,go through the management process of purchasing strategy set up,strategic supplier management and out sourced project management,by using the methodology of Literature Analysis,Case Analysis,Failure Mode Effect Analysis,and combine interview other company' s procurers,to investigate the problem of C company's current process,and carry out the improvement plan for strategic supplier development and management.