This paper seeks to investigate the supply chain as another dimension of concurrent engineering in product design. Based on the literature review, four dimensions of investigation of relationship between product design and supply chain were identified: the business processes approach, the involvement of clients and suppliers in product design, and the modularization of products. In order to investigate the relations between the supply chain and product design, a case study of a link in the home appliance sector's supply chain was carried out. At the end, the implications of the research results were analyzed with the purpose of including the supply chain as another dimension of concurrent engineering in product design.
Product design; Supply chain; PDP; SCM
