Program overview:

Product development has become an important vehicle in developing or maintaining a strong position in an increasingly competitive environment.

Involving the Supplier as early as possible into the development process presumes a very intensive co-operation between your organization and its suppliers. Therefore a structured approach to Early Supplier Involvement is increasingly important in today’s competitive environment. The leverage of innovative ideas from suppliers is a key source for differentiation.

If successfully done, it can be an enormous advantage in flexibility in design, costs and time-to-market

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E-learning, 2 hours

Classroom, 1 day

Target audience:

• with a bachelor or master degree (or on equivalent level via work experience) with some years of business experience;
• who are involved in integrating suppliers in the initial phases of product creation processes and/or R&D processes;
• Part of cross-functional teams.