Diploma Thesis from the year 2018 in the subject Engineering -
Mechanical Engineering, grade: 1.3, University of applied sciences
Frankfurt a. M., language: English, abstract: This thesis will examine
supplier risk management and provide prospects to minimize these risks.
Thus, the thesis will identify latent quality risks for automotive
companies by introducing unknown suppliers and discloses methodological
measures to minimize proactively such risks through the systematic of
supplier quality management. The research is going to contribute a
solution approach on this research problem that can be applied as a
guideline to minimize supplier quality risks. Consequently, the
theoretical framework for quality management and risk management will be
examined by this thesis and existing tools and methods are compiled. A
research study will be elaborated with findings and analysis from
expert's knowledge. These research findings will be combined
subsequently with the theoretical framework and will culminate in a
recommended approach to achieve supplier risk minimization. With an
increasing demand, the automotive industry must deal with the
reliability of vehicles and components. The success of many companies is
based on the quality of their products, especially for companies
operating successfully on the global market. In fact, all the car
manufacturers as well as their suppliers are expanding their production
capacities in the growth region China. Thereby new, innovative suppliers
need to be established which are quality-capable. Of great importance is
high quality, absolute delivery reliability together with unrivaled low
prices. Stable partnerships are required with suppliers to rely on in
the long-term. A New Supplier Introduction represents a risk for quality
particularly when the supplier starts from a Greenfield. The major
problem when nominating new suppliers is that there is no security in
advance for the quality performance of the new supplier in series and
that
