A two-phase optimization study on strategic alliance partners selection of collaborative product design

摘要

Directly related to the success of product design, selection of partners is an important element in collaborative design management technology. Based on the existing literature analysis, this paper proposed a set of more simple and practical selection steps according to the actual situation of partner selection. The proposed two stage partner selection method starts with the preliminary selection based on the improved effectiveness of DEA and then proceed to the optimization usage genetic algorithm.