Author(s)

Xiaopeng Zhang

Corresponding Author

Xiaopeng Zhang

ABSTRACT

The economic globalization accelerate the market competition, this circumstances is obliging firms to focus on optimization in all aspects of production and management. Best suppliers is key to enterprise survival or wining in the competition. Supplier’s level are different, supplier’s selection method becomes the object of the enterprise research. This paper summarizes the selection and evaluation of suppliers at home and abroad, describes the supplier classification, gives the factors of supplier selection, analyzes the principles and methods of supplier selection, outlines the steps of selecting suppliers, studies the selection of suppliers, and finally verifies the feasibility of the case analysis by AHP.

KEYWORDS

Supplier management, Supplier selection, AHP