Research On Supplier Management Optimization Of Non-production Procurement In Senri Steering Column Company

For today’s OEMs,the product technology and product quality of component suppliers are not the only evaluation factors to measure component suppliers’ competence.At this stage,the requirements of OEMs have been extended to evaluate component suppliers’ rapid response ability,resource management level and integration ability whether can meet the whole supply chain standards,and the requirements of management level to component suppliers are also increasing.Under the rapid development trend of the overall automobile industry,component suppliers also need to maintain the rapid growth of their own management ability.Therefore,the supplier management has risen to the level of enterprise strategic development.Enterprises’ management level to suppliers directly determines the competitive position in the component supply market.Senrui steering column company,as a joint venture established in China by a fortune 500 group company,is one of the leading auto parts suppliers in Jilin Province.Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020,the growth rate of domestic automobile sales has decreased year by year,and the competition in the auto parts market is more and more fierce.Senri company can still maintain a good market share,with annual sales of nearly 1.4 billion RMB and annual procurement amount of non-production is about 50 million RMB.However,during the annual procurement audit in 2020 and 2021,the company found that there were many problems in supplier management method and policy in non-production procurement,which can not meet the requirements of the enterprise’s business development to non-production procurement supplier elaborate managementFrom the perspective of objective factors,the company has many procurement contents and a wide range of non production procurement,involving 15 categories.With the continuous expansion of the enterprise scale,procurement demand is more complex,purchase orders increasing,and procurement process become longer.From the perspective of internal factors,the company focuses on production procurement supplier management and pays insufficient attention to non production procurement supplier management,resulting in low maturity in non production procurement supplier management.From the perspective of the company’s long-term development,effective non production procurement supplier management can play a key role in reducing costs and increasing efficiency for the operation of the company,and plays an important role in improving the core competitiveness of the company in the fierce market competition environment.Therefore,this thesis mainly takes Senrui steering column company as the research object,and expects to analyze the defects and deficiencies of the company’s non production procurement supplier management with the help of supplier management theories,processes and tools.And provide targeted suggestions and optimization proposal,so as to improve the non production procurement supplier management system and process.Not only improving non production procurement suppliers management level,but also improve supply chain management efficiency,reduce purchasing costs and improve the cooperation mode with suppliers,and finally achieve win-win cooperation with suppliers.At the same time,it also lays a good foundation for the long-term development of the company.