隨著TFT-LCD面板產業日趨成熟，相關產品開發時程及產品生命週期也愈來愈短。製作中小尺寸的TFT-LCD面板產品，除了開發面板本身外，還需要組裝相關的材料零組件成為面板產品。一個面板產品使用的關鍵零組件至少需要十幾項材料，每一個高中低階產品所需搭配的材料零組件供應商又有所不同，而材料供應商的好壞，攸關產品的開發送樣時程，因此，企業的供應商選擇與管理對開發新產品極為重要。面板廠的決策單位主管若能以合格供應商清單先行區分高中低階供應商群組，在每次開發新產品時，使用決策指標針對不同的高中低階產品選擇合適的供應商，將減少企業在產品開發過程中更換供應商的次數，及縮短產品送樣時間。
本研究的目的是建構面板產業的供應商選擇決策指標，以AHP (analytic hierarchy process)為研究架構，在新產品開發的供應商選擇以五個目標和十四個屬性進行評核，建立出相對應的屬性權重，讓決策者可以依循模式評比，根據應用的產品類型選擇出適當的關鍵零組件供應商。本研究以台灣某TFT-LCD 中小尺寸面板廠為案例驗證決策指標的可行性，研究結果證實本研究提出之指標可供決策者評選供應商之參考。

With the TFT-LCD industries become more mature, the product development times and life cycles have become shorter. The production of small and medium size TFT-LCD product not only need to focus on the TFT-LCD’s R&D, but also need to assemble the related material components. A TFT-LCD product includes more than ten key components which are provided by different suppliers at high, middle, and low levels of products. The reliability of materials suppliers will affect the sample product lead time and product development process. Therefore, supplier selection and management is a critical factor for enterprises in developing new product. For selection and management of suppliers, the decision makers can sort the qualified suppliers into three groups (high, middle and low), then using decision indicators to match suitable suppliers with the new product. By doing so, the enterprises can reduce times of change suppliers in the product development process and shorten sample test procedure.
This study aims to establish decision indicators of supplier selection in the TFT-LCD Industry by adopting AHP (analytic hierarchy process) framework. There are five goals and fourteen attributes need to be assessed with corresponding attribute weights. The results can be a basis for the decision maker to select suitable key components suppliers. To examine the validity of this approach, an empirical study was conducted in a small and medium size TFT-LCD company in Taiwan, and the results demonstrated the practical viability of this approach.

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