A Method to Design a Value Chain from Scratch.

Summary Value chain concept and methods has assumed a dominant position in studying industry from management point of view. Decision supports methods using value chain require the acquisition of data from various existing corporate databases or data warehouses. In design research discipline, the subject of value chain design is emerging. Only a few of published research took a wide scope comparable to theories used today in engineering design. As an effort in developing the methodology and as a result of research within a national industrial consortium, this paper proposes and discusses a general value chain design approach which opens up a promising perspective to provide a new direction for research and application of value chain from scratch for multi-stakeholder industrial systems. It introduces value chain design as a way to determine, model, and analyze and evaluate the industrial ecosystems, in order to generate future scenarios and provide evaluation criteria for decision makers. To illustrate its application, the establishment of end of life vehicle recycling subsidiary at national level is explored to identify potential values stakeholders.