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Supplier Integration Roles in New Product Development: The Automotive Suppliers‘ Perspective
2018 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM), 2018This research examined supplier integration in New Product Development (NPD) from the suppliers‘ perspectives. The level of supplier involvement in NPD practices and the drivers and barriers of supplier integration in NPD were explored. In this case study based qualitative research; data were gathered from interviews conducted with ten automotive ...
K. Kanapathy, K. O. Chu
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WHY SUPPLIER INTEGRATION FAILS
2016In a traditional relationship, a salesperson is the sole gatekeeper in the supplier’s relationship with a buying firm. Supplier integration (SI) suggests that each domain expert (e.g., engineering) of a buying firm should directly communicate with the supplying firm personnel, without passing through the traditional boundary spanner—a salesperson ...
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An integrated approach for supplier selection
Logistics Information Management, 2003Competitive international business environment has forced many firms to focus on supply chain management to cope with highly increasing competition. Hence, supplier selection process has gained importance recently, since most of the firms have been spending considerable amount of their revenues on purchasing.
Ferhan Çebi, Demet Bayraktar
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Optimierte Prozessentwicklung durch „Supplier Integration”
JOT Journal für Oberflächentechnik, 2003Die fruhest mogliche Einbindung von Lieferanten bei der Entwicklung neuer Prozesse spart Kosten und Zeit. Im folgenden Beitrag berichtet der Automobilzulieferer Valeo Wischersysteme uber die Erfahrungen mit der Supplier-Integration-Strategie bei Entwicklung und Realisierung eines neuen Lackierprozesses.
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An Integrated Approach for Supplier Selection
2006 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics, 2006Purchasing decisions are no longer made based on best price but companies are increasingly considering both tangible and intangible benefits that suppliers bring to the long term growth of the company. This paper addresses the multi-objective criteria pertaining to supplier selection process by a combination of Quality Function Deployment (QFD ...
Ahmad Sarfaraz, Raja Balu
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Exploiting supplier innovativeness through knowledge integration
International Journal of Technology Management, 2013Firms are increasingly involving and relying on networks of suppliers and other external partners in their innovation processes. A successful exploitation of suppliers’ technology and competencies is however challenging, not least in situations characterised by technological uncertainty.
Bengtsson L., Lakemond N., Dabhilkar M.
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Vertical Partnering Implementation for Supplier Integration
Volume 5: 17th Computers in Engineering Conference, 1997Abstract This paper will present an approach that takes the concept of vertical partnering first demonstrated under an AF ManTech pathfinder program and provides a plan for its commercial implementation. The vertical partnering concept provides small and medium-sized Enterprises (SME) secure access to Raytheon’s CAD / CAM software and ...
Ann Gardner +4 more
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Integrating Suppliers into New Product Development
Research-Technology Management, 2007OVERVIEW:New product development is becoming increasingly risky, expensive and reliant on disparate knowledge bases spread across multiple firms. Many organizations are devolving design responsibility to their suppliers in order to meet these challenges, yet may lack appropriate knowledge of “best practice” in managing supplier integration. For example,
Robert B. Handfield, Benn Lawson
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Supplier integration: an international comparison of supplier and automaker experiences
International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management, 2009Selling off, closing down, or outsourcing, are common but risky strategies for automakers' component plants, as the experience at General Motors (GM) shows. A similar situation at Volkswagen (VW) was the trigger for the present analysis. A revisit of classical studies about lean production shows that supplier relations, not outsourcing, are decisive ...
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Integrated strategy of industrial product suppliers
Internet Research, 2005PurposeThe primary purpose was to learn about different variables of an integrated strategy associated with choosing to supply through business‐to‐business (B2B) intermediaries and apply the variables to a series of cases.Design/methodology/approachA literature review served as a basis to develop an integrated model.
Mark A. Johnson, Dana M. Johnson
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