The trend towards organizing design, development and manufacture via supply chains, rather than predominantly in-house, poses major challenges for design management. Procurement methods based on adversarial competitive tendering are generally unsuited to complex engineering products requiring strong design and development coordination. Literature on 'supplier partnerships' has largely overlooked the implications for managing design and development. This paper reports the results of a major project that focuses upon this issue, concentrating on practical case studies from British Rail, Netherlands Railways, Rolls Royce and British Coal - that involve the management of 'devolved' engineering design by large business organizations. A spectrum of approaches from in-house to fully devolved design is described. It is concluded that there does not appear to be a single best approach for managing devolved design, but that appropriate approaches for an organization depend on its location in the supply chain and its ability to manage organizational change.


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    Title :

    Managing engineering design in complex supply chains


    Additional title:

    Konstruktionsmanagement im Umfeld komplexer Materialflußorganisationen


    Contributors:
    Roy, R. (author) / Potter, S. (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1996


    Size :

    18 Seiten, 2 Bilder, 33 Quellen



    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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