The application of supplier material management system in design department helps the designers to obtain material information in time,which strengthening the information communication in different departments,effectively controlling the product quality,improving the product cost,guaranteeing the rate of delivery-in-time.

Fuel supply is the lifeline of thermal power plants, there has been numerous fuel suppliers and a gradual increase in the impacts of fuels’variety,quality and price to the electricity generation and operation, thus make the workload of fuels’plan,transportation, coordination and control much heavier,while the accounting, statistics and analysis of the fuels increasingly complicated.