Exploratory Study: Design Capabilities Development for Malaysian Vendors in Automotive Industry

The involvement of vendors in product development (PD) is able to make the process more efficient, effective and economical. Since vendors account for more than half of the total cost of production, their involvement have major influence on the cost and quality of the products. Vendors’ involvemen...

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Main Authors: Ana Sakura, Zainal Abidin, Rosnah, Mohd Yusuff, Rasli, Muslimen
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Language:English
Published: IEOM Research Solutions Pty Ltd 2011
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Online Access:http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/17015/
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author Ana Sakura, Zainal Abidin
Rosnah, Mohd Yusuff
Rasli, Muslimen
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description The involvement of vendors in product development (PD) is able to make the process more efficient, effective and economical. Since vendors account for more than half of the total cost of production, their involvement have major influence on the cost and quality of the products. Vendors’ involvement in PD has significantly increased their importance; expose them to greater risks and challenges. As a return, the vendors are able to improve business performance results, productivity, and reputation, thus increasing the companies’ competitive advantage. To be successful in PD require certain level of design capabilities (DC), thus huge investment is needed. However, the Malaysian automotive market size is considered small and vendors’ capabilities are also limited. Since, studies on vendors’ DC, particularly, in Malaysia is very limited, an empirical study was conducted to explore on the critical success factors (CSFs) in enhancing the vendors design capabilities for the Malaysian automotive industry. A series of interviews were conducted on selected automaker and vendors from different categories to identify the critical success factors (CSFs) that are able to enhance the design capabilities development for Malaysian vendors.
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spelling unimas-170152017-08-09T07:32:42Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/17015/ Exploratory Study: Design Capabilities Development for Malaysian Vendors in Automotive Industry Ana Sakura, Zainal Abidin Rosnah, Mohd Yusuff Rasli, Muslimen TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery The involvement of vendors in product development (PD) is able to make the process more efficient, effective and economical. Since vendors account for more than half of the total cost of production, their involvement have major influence on the cost and quality of the products. Vendors’ involvement in PD has significantly increased their importance; expose them to greater risks and challenges. As a return, the vendors are able to improve business performance results, productivity, and reputation, thus increasing the companies’ competitive advantage. To be successful in PD require certain level of design capabilities (DC), thus huge investment is needed. However, the Malaysian automotive market size is considered small and vendors’ capabilities are also limited. Since, studies on vendors’ DC, particularly, in Malaysia is very limited, an empirical study was conducted to explore on the critical success factors (CSFs) in enhancing the vendors design capabilities for the Malaysian automotive industry. A series of interviews were conducted on selected automaker and vendors from different categories to identify the critical success factors (CSFs) that are able to enhance the design capabilities development for Malaysian vendors. IEOM Research Solutions Pty Ltd 2011 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/17015/1/Exploratory%20study%20design%20capabilities%20development%20%28abstract%29.pdf Ana Sakura, Zainal Abidin and Rosnah, Mohd Yusuff and Rasli, Muslimen (2011) Exploratory Study: Design Capabilities Development for Malaysian Vendors in Automotive Industry. Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, January 22 – 24, 2011. ISSN 978-0-9808251-0-7 (ISBN) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266176429
spellingShingle TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
Ana Sakura, Zainal Abidin
Rosnah, Mohd Yusuff
Rasli, Muslimen
Exploratory Study: Design Capabilities Development for Malaysian Vendors in Automotive Industry
title Exploratory Study: Design Capabilities Development for Malaysian Vendors in Automotive Industry
title_full Exploratory Study: Design Capabilities Development for Malaysian Vendors in Automotive Industry
title_fullStr Exploratory Study: Design Capabilities Development for Malaysian Vendors in Automotive Industry
title_full_unstemmed Exploratory Study: Design Capabilities Development for Malaysian Vendors in Automotive Industry
title_short Exploratory Study: Design Capabilities Development for Malaysian Vendors in Automotive Industry
title_sort exploratory study: design capabilities development for malaysian vendors in automotive industry
topic TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
url http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/17015/
http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/17015/
http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/17015/1/Exploratory%20study%20design%20capabilities%20development%20%28abstract%29.pdf