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As the second largest in the world, the Chinese automobile market has become more and more important for automakers. However, the competition pressure in this market is ever increasing. To keep profitable, the automobile companies must pay special attention to cost control. Since the procurement cost takes most part of the complete vehicle cost, reducing procurement cost was made the first choice...
This research studies the Chinese automobile industry and proposes a cost reduction method for automobiles at the design stage. Since cost data are confidential in many companies, the research resorts to an indirect method to estimate the product cost. The automobile prices and specifications are collected from Web site. Then a panel of experts is invited to estimate product cost ratio using Delphi...
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