New Product Development Chain and Managing Supplier Involvement in Product Development

摘要

Uncertain and dynamic environments present fundamental challenges to managers of the new product development process. While supplier involvement in the design of a product, in what can be called a product development chain, is generally regarded as being of substantial benefit. But, there has been little work done on developing methodologies that can be used to support such supplier involvement. This paper aims to address the area of product development chains by developing a framework of supplier involvement management can be formulated that consists of product development management or design management, parallel design and supplier management, and suppler integration management.