Collaborative New Product Introduction & Risk Management in Advanced Manufacturing Supply Chains

主动回应客户销售咨询的能力，通过稳健的新产品推出流程证明能力，以及管理风险的能力，是英国先进制造公司成功的关键。然而，随着先进制造公司继续专注于核心能力和外包非核心流程，它们变得越来越依赖其供应链合作伙伴。不幸的是，英国工程中小企业没有工具、流程和行为来与其供应链合作伙伴公开合作，这可能导致对最终客户的服务分散和脱节。这项可行性研究将开发一个基于云的演示系统，重点是先进制造业英国中小企业之间的有效合作，以推动全球竞争力。

The ability to respond proactively to customer sales enquiries, prove capability through robust new product introduction processes and managing risk is critical to the success of UK advanced manufacturing companies. However as advanced manufacturing companies continue to focus on core competences and outsource non-core processes they become increasingly reliant on their supply chain partners. Unfortunately UK engineering SMEs do not have the tools, processes and behaviours to openly collaborate with their supply chain partners which can result in a fragmented and disjointed service to the end customer. This feasibility study will develop a cloud-based demonstrator system focused on effective collaboration between advanced manufacturing UK SMEs to drive global competitiveness.