Over the past two decades, the automotive industry has experienced major changes as a result of globalisation, changing customer requirements and environmental legislation. The supplier integration in the new product development process is a significant step in facilitating reduction in the time to market of innovations and reducing costs. The aim of this work is to assess the extent of supplie...

WeBid is a prototype web-based framework developed for supporting and facilitating early supplier involvement in new product development on the Internet. It provides a suite of rigorous and yet pragmatic constructs for establishing and managing the customer-supplier relationships in new product development process. This paper reports on some insights and experience gained from a real-life case ...

Manufacturers today often strive toward early supplier involvement in product development. Yet the research literature offers limited guidance on this issue to manufacturing companies and suppliers, and often assumes a “one-size-fits-all” approach. In this paper, we empirically examine whether suppliers for different sourced products play distinctly different roles in product development, by an...

Global supplier development is a multi-criterion decision problem which includes both qualitative and quantitative factors. The global supplier selection problem is more complex than domestic one and it needs more critical analysis. The aim of this paper is to identify and discuss some of the important and critical decision criteria including risk factors for the development of an efficient sys...

This paper proposes to apply Chance Discovery methods to software requirements elicitation. The author’s previous studies indicated that requirements definition work of custom-made type application software had been running through the whole software development process. This trend has been seen among small-scale software development projects, especially for web application system and client/se...

Sustainability in operations and supply chains is becoming more popular among academics practitioners through Sustainable Supplier Selection (SSS). In addition to balancing economic, social, environmental factors, the awareness of United Nations Development Goals 2030 has affected selection long-term suppliers, ensuring green sustainable chains. The criteria for SSS have multiple dimensions are...

Abstract Electric power market competition is intense. The competition between the various power plants will is the contest of economic efficiency as the core. Fuel cost is the center link of production management and economic accounting in thermal power plant, so selection management of the coal-fired supplier has great significance for the development of thermal power enterprise and improveme...

This paper examines the ISO 9001\2 requirement that the capability of a supplier to supplier product or service should be assessed. In practice the development of a preferred supplier list is driven by qualitative rather than quantitative factors of supplier capability. In the field of software considerable progress has been made towards developing models which when applied yield quantitative m...

We present an approach for the design and implementation of embedded real-time software running on a distributed platform. The approach consists of a high-level specification layer instantiated by Giotto programs and a low-level verification and execution layer instantiated by Schedule carrying code (SCC). We explain a methodology in which several code suppliers, coordinated by a resource manag...