| dc.description.abstract | Abstract
As international economic changes affect the global supply chain, the recent international trade wars and COVID-19, events such as port congestion, work stoppages, and city closures have caused supply chain disruptions due to imbalances in supply and demand, and the electronics industry is facing severe material shortages.
However, all products rely on the support of a complete supply chain, and tens of thousands of jobs around the world are highly related to the supply chain. The optimization of supply chain management has become the key competitiveness of enterprises (Yongbo Li et al., 2020).
In the context of the shortage of materials caused by the trade war and COVID-19, this research aims at the large-scale computer and peripheral equipment industry in China, through semi-structured interviews with procurement practitioners in this industry, to collect valuable practical opinions. Understand procurement considerations when selecting suppliers and the important sequence of supplier selection factors, and summarize practical suggestions when implementing supplier selection. The research results provide practical reference for industry development and industry procurement.
The results of this study found that under the condition of no shortage of materials, the most important factor for enterprises is price or quality, but if there is a shortage of materials under the imbalance of supply and demand, the delivery factor jumps to the first critical success factor, and the enterprise is willing to pay a experdite fee to get instant delivery of materials, to avoid additional compensation costs or order cancellations, which will affect the long-term maintenance of good business relationships. The results of this research also show that the price and quality factor also still highly valued, and then the company maintains product competitiveness and focuses on long-term strategic cooperation. Gradually, technical factors and service factors are included in the selection of suppliers in the computer peripheral equipment industry. The research results and recommendations of this study are for the reference of industry development and industry procurement in the implementation of supplier selection practices.
Keywords : Supplier selection ; shortage ; Supply chain management ; electricity industry ; Critical success factors ; Covid-19 | en_US |