A R esearch of Participing Model for Suppliers in Product Innovation Processes─The Case Study of Taiwan''s Machine Tool Industry

• Main Authors: Wen-Te Chang, 張文德
• Other Authors: Prof. Ren-Jye Liu
• Format: Others
• Published: 2001
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/00585454170643185407

碩士 === 東海大學 === 工業工程學系 === 89 === Facing the tendency of global competition, it is impossible and uneconomic to satisfy the all demands of customers by enterprise’s own resources. It is the times for enterprises to cooperate with other organizations by surmount the organization’s limits. In this condition, how to outsource effectively and supplement resources with each other, it has been the important key point when businesses face the mass customized time to control competition edge. In the product innovation’s processes, enterprises’ product design capability and other core capabilities will be the important organization’s terms. The investigation tries to discuss from the viewpoint on product technology, so that we could figure out the contents in the types of different suppliers’ participation in product innovation processes. First, we take some of most important literatures relative to supply relationships and product innovation to investigate the model of suppliers’ participants in product innovation processes. Results indicate that “ Cost Down”, “ Quality Improvement”, “ Value Promotion” and “ Value Creation” are four types of the model. Secondly, in order to complementing our theory of suppliers’ participating model, we choose two Taiwan machine tool enterprises and their suppliers to verify our theory by case study. This study finds that there is another model different from our pervious model for Taiwan machine tool’s enterprises. And we find that different suppliers and enterprises have different dynamic relationships of supply. In addition, we also find the conditions that suppliers’ participant of enterprises’ product innovations have developed gradually in Taiwan’s machine tool industry, and the levels of participant are also raising gradually. According to this tendency, it will accelerate to promote the product innovation’s development of machine tool industry. We feel the facts uncovered in this investigation not only offer valuable information for academics, but also provide a useful reference for companies to practice their product innovations.