The more and more globalizing world is today’s main challenge for the companies. Therefore supply management has to handle the Know-how-input from the suppliers as well as the risk of know-how-loss within a collaboration with suppliers. In order to optimize the allocation of the know-how within a company, a link to the innovation management and the know-how-protection has to be established. The paper provides answers to the optimal design of the know-how management in supply management, taking into account different factors. For this purpose, different procurement situations were classified. Based on this, differentiated management recommendations were given to help companies in the decision making process.
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The more and more globalizing world is today’s main challenge for the companies. Therefore supply management has to handle the Know-how-input from the suppliers as well as the risk of know-how-loss within a collaboration with suppliers. In order to optimize the allocation of the know-how within a company, a link to the innovation management and the know-how-protection has to be established. The paper provides answers to the optimal design of the know-how management in supply management, taking...
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