Integration of Quality Function Deployment and Target Costing
چکیده
Quality Function Deployment (QFD) and Target Costing (TC) are two important phases in product design cycle. This paper proposes a methodology to integrate QFD and TC. TC is a cost management method it makes the planning group focus on the customer requirements and product characteristics for which they are willing to pay for the products. QFD identifies the customer requirements in initial phase of product development. It is customer driven approach to translate the customer needs into engineering characteristics through product design phase that final product meets the customer requirements. Integration of QFD in TC process takes a greater cost competitive advantages because QFD helps to identify the customer needs which