“…In conventional manufacturing, the selection of suitable parts suppliers that meet the required criteria (Dickson, 1966;Ishak and Wijaya, 2020), particularly productionengineering expertise, materials, part-specific tooling, cost, and delivery, is a considerable investment. This selection is rarely revisited or changed before production ramp-down (Frandsen et al, 2020;Ulrich and Eppinger, 2012) owing to substantial transaction cost constructs, which are asset specificity, uncertainty, and governance mechanisms (Grover and Malhotra, 2003;Williamson, 2008).…”