x食品公司mro供应商管理策略分析.pdf

STUDY ON MRO SUPPLIER MANAGEMENT STRATEGY FOR X FOODS COMPANY ABSTRACT MRO is the abbreviation of maintenance, repair and operation, normally means the material and service which have no direct relation with the products during production. Therefore, MRO supplier is those who provide the products or service of this kind. For many years indirect procurement especially MRO procurement has existed under the shadow of raw material procurement with no attention. There are even no indirect procurement departments for MRO purchasing in many companies today. Of course, the characteristics by nature of MRO are also the root cause of its unimportant position : Lacking of demand plan, thousands of types, different levels of suppliers and low purchasing volume. For the companies that owns MRO procurement team, the main focus from management is on lower cost and timely delivery thus buyers’ daily work only stays inquiry and bargain 7 万方数据 but neglect the management of suppliers. In recent years, with the rapid increase of multi-national business investment more and more attention began to focus on indirect and MRO procurement. Consolidate procurement was taken by headquarter of multi-national company to replace the individual procurement. By this trend, it is urgent to manage well on current and potential suppliers. X Foods Company, which is the 2nd largest foods company of the world, is set as the example of this dissertation for discussion on some effective strategy on supplier management. At the very fir