A framework of Design for Procurement

The aim of paper is to present a framework for emerging design methodology. The framework constitutes the approach to the design engineering of products and product families for contributing to the concept of concurrent enterprising. The factors facilitating the targeted application areas are pooled as the framework of Design for Procurement (DfP). The framework is supposed to bind together the aspects of research and development projects that operate in the application area. The framework was first recognized with the conjoint workshop of both practitioners from industry and the academic participants. The framework was used as the basis for the literature study in the relevant fields. The paper combines the findings of the workshop and the literature study. Currently three case studies in industrial companies are being carried out. Their viewpoints to the framework support the framework and further results are predicted in the discussion.