A Research on the Applications of Supply Chain in Textile-Clothing Industry

Abstract

Nowadays most of the firms understood the importance of obtaining competitive advantage of inter- enterprise relations and started to re-establish the relations of both suppliers and customers depending on basis of mutual cooperation and gain. Especially developing close coordination with suppliers is seen to provide quite positive contributions to the areas like increasing product quality, decreasing the cost of purchased products, developing the production and logistic flexibility, increasing customer satisfaction. Constantly changing fashion, various shopping seasons, different materials, various accessories are the features which affect the process in textile industry. Besides constant increasing competition, price pressure, shortening the process of supply of products into markets, import/export, complex production structures, working with third parties are operation a factors which describe the structure of textile industry. This study was prepared with the aim of determining the applications of supply chain of textile-clothing industry. The study was applied on 497 active textile-clothing firms which affiliated with TOBB (Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey) in the last quarter of 2012. In this study supply chain applications were analysed in textile-clothing industry. Consequently in textile-clothing industry some variables have been reached in relation to supply chain applications.