Research On Knowledge Sharing For Supplier Involvement In New Product Development

New product development is the key to business success for a manufacturing company. But as market competition becomes fiercer, and consumer demand becomes more diverse, product development, which is viewed as an activity of high tech, high risk and high cooperation, can not be fulfilled on one company's own strength. It should take full advantage of outer resource. Now more and more companies have realized if suppliers could involve in product development, then suppliers'experience and professional knowlecdge can make up manufacturers'resource shortage, and also shorten the development cycle, improve product quality, reduce development cost etc. This research will discuss about how to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of supplier involvement from the angle of org. knowledge sharing.The research divides into 3 parts:(1) Based on the traditional product development process, the author provides the new process suitable for supplier involvement.(2) According to different involvement timing, the author develops the knowledge system for supplier involvement in product development in planning stage, design stage and manufacturing stage.(3) Considering the different characteristics of development stages, user roles, knowledge demand, the research discusses about the design method of knowledge sharing platform for supplier involvement by the way of systematic analysis. Beside that, the research has also considered the cost and the incentive for org. knowledge sharing.