Product Development Process Managing in Supply Chain Andréa Cristina dos Santos a1 , Rafael Ernesto Kieckbusch b and Fernando Antonio Forcellini c a Grupo de Engenharia de Produto e Processo – GEPP, POSMEC, UFSC, Brazil. b Pós-graduação em Engenharia de Produção – PPGEP, UFSC, Brazil. c Grupo de Engenharia de Produto e Processo – GEPP, PPGEP, UFSC, Brazil. Abstract: Today, businesses depend on strategic relations with their customers and suppliers to create value to develop product and to obtain better market-share. Designing products to match the processes and supply chains, processes to match product platforms and supply chains, and supply chains to match the product platforms and process are the ingredients in today’s fast developing markets. If this co-design is done well up front with sufficient focus product development process managing, product will cost much less overall and the time-to-market will decrease substantially. However, the evidence supporting supplier integration is to less clear than evidence on the positive contribution of customer integration in product development process. Considering this problem, the purpose of the present paper is to supply a path aiming to identify managing techniques and practice for the involvement of suppliers in PDP. A model for product development process managing in supply chain was proposed. The model focuses on the following factors: outsourcing process, involving supplier into PDP, knowledge management and design considerations. Keywords: Product development process, supply chain, outsourcing process 1 Introduction This paper is introduced in the context of a study on the relations between the supply chain and product design. The importance of beginning the study of supply chains in product development process (PDP) is mainly because it is at this product of lifecycle phase that the decisions responsible for 80% (eighty percent) of a product’s final costs are made [6,15]. In recent years a large number of papers have been published emphasizing the effects of the suppliers’ participation in PDP, stating the benefits and drawbacks of the suppliers’ involvement [1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10]. One of the main drivers behind involvement suppliers early in the in the PDP is to gain better leverage of supplier’s technical capabilities and expertise to improve product development 1 Corresponding Author E-mail: andreakieck@gmail.com