供应链环境下供应商的最佳数目问题探讨

Discussion on the Best Number of Suppliers in Supply Chain

在供应链管理环境下,供应链合作关系的运作需要减少供应源的数量(长期成本最小化的需要,但并非单一供应源),企业间相互的联结变得更专有(精密合作的需要),并且制造商会在全球市场范围内寻找杰出的供应商。本文就针对供应商的数量这一问题,采用两个模型分别对商业物流系统和制造业物流系统中企业选择供应商进行了探讨,对现实中确定供应商的数目具有一定的指导意义。

Based on supply chain management, the operation of supply chain partnership needs to reduce the suppliers＂ sumber （the need of minimizing the long-term cost, but not the sole supplier）, the coupling between different enterprises becomes more proprietary （the need of precise cooperation）, and the manufacturer will seek the outstanding suppliers in the global market scope, Aiming at the problem of suppliers＂ number, it adopts two models to discuss the best number of suppliers in commercial logistics system and manufactural logistics system separately in this article, which has certain guidance on determining the number of suppliers in practice.