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It is widely acknowledged that current industry is more than ever obliged to improve its product design and development strategy according to the increasing pressure of product innovation and complexity, the changing market demands and increasing level of customer awareness. Due to the complex development cycle, the OEM (original equipment manufacturer) has begun to adopt supplier integration into its product development process. To respond to this trend, the collaboration and partnership management between the OEM and suppliers need to be investigated. Regarding the depth of collaboration, the integration of suppliers into the OEM process chain has been defined in two ways, quasi-supplier integration and full supplier integration. To enable the success of supplier integration, this chapter has investigated how to manage the collaboration between the OEM and its suppliers, through determining an appropriate supplier integration method. The collaboration tools enabling supplier integration for product development have been proposed. Taking the tool supplier as a case study, a Web-based system called “CyberStamping” has been developed to realise collaborative supplier integration for automotive product design and development.
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Tang, D., Chin, KS. (2009). Collaborative Supplier Integration for Product Design and Development. In: Wang, L., Nee, A. (eds) Collaborative Design and Planning for Digital Manufacturing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-287-0_4
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