| In recent years,most of Chinese companies have experienced significant growth in exports by virtue of low manufacturing cost and population dividend.China has also been recognized the biggest manufacturing country.However,with the continuous accumulation of huge trade surpluses,some serious problems are beginning to draw people’s attention.Many foreign manufacturing companies are moving to the lower cost areas like Southeast Asia.With the deepening of the reform in the structure of supply side,the sustainable development of the company depends more and more on the optimization of supply chain management which has the characteristics such as cost advantages,short production cycle and agile response.Supply chain management is the centralization management of product flow,information flow and capital flow,which consist of purchasing/supply management,production operation management and logistics management.The purchasing/supply management is the foundation of supply chain management.With the improvement of Chinese manufacturing companies,they expect the purchasing function can directly contribute to their competitive advantages and have more requirements in terms of strategies.Based on this situation,the definition,meaning,role and implementation rule of strategic purchasing are introduced and sorted out in this paper.An automotive interiors company A is evaluated by several measures including the general information introduction,raw material and supplier characters analysis.Combing with the analysis of current status of strategic purchasing management in Company A,prominent problems are revealed,like loose purchasing organization,single purchasing strategy,lots of outsourced items without clear scope definition.By applying the fundamentals about the supply chain management and strategic purchasing as well as the management status of Company A,a systematic optimization proposal is raised in this paper to align with the long term development target.The proposal includes the optimization of organization structure,purchasing strategy and category procurement,supplier performance evaluation,supplier management and so on.It is helpful for company A with Strategic purchasing concept to improve its management of supply chain and become more competitive in the market.By implement of above mentioned improvement measures,it’s hoped that other private enterprises in manufacturing industry can get some helpful references and indications from the practices of company A during their supply chain management transition and upgrading. |
