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Evaluating the failures criticality in collaborative design with suppliers
Personnier, Hélène; Le Dain, Marie-Anne; Calvi, Richard
Type:
Year:
2013
Editor:
Udo Lindemann, Srinivasan V, Yong Se Kim, Sang Won Lee, John Clarkson, Gaetano Cascini
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Series:
ICED
Institution:
1: G-SCOP Laboratory, Grenoble-INP, France; 2: IREGE, Savoie University, France
Page(s):
257-266
ISBN:
978-1-904670-52-0
ISSN:
2220-4334
Abstract:
Innovation helps companies to increase their competitive position. Suppliers are an important source of innovation. Thus, successful collaborations with suppliers in New Product Development (NPD) can lead to competitive advantage and many companies try to involve suppliers in early stages of their design process. Potential benefits of Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) for collaborative design do exist only if this practice is managed effectively. However, such factors as low level of trust between buyer and supplier or inappropriate selection of the supplier can have negative impacts on ESI and lead to unsuccessful projects. It is obviously necessary to identify potential failures in collaborative design with suppliers impacting project performance. This paper describes the development of a criticality assessment of those failures obtained through literature results, collaborative work with 2 NPD project teams of a French company and an academic-practitioner consortium. The method proposed enables to tackle potential failures in future projects and to reduce costs by identifying improvements early in the development process when changes are relatively easier and less expensive.
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