Logistics and supply chain management in textile industry

ABSTRACTMaster ThesisLogistics and Supply Chain Management in Textile IndustryHacer SAKALLIDokuz Eylul UniversityInstitute of Social SciencesTotal Quality ManagementIn recent years, most of the companies realized the importance of the relationshipbetween the companies to gain the competitive advantage and started to reorganize theirprocesses based on win-win relation with the suppliers and the customers. Especially,the developing cooperation with the suppliers provided an increase in the quality of theproducts, the minimization of the purchasing costs, encouraged the flexibility in theproduction and distribution channels and resulted as the increase in the customersatisfaction.Supply Chain Management includes the management of the material, money andinformaton flow within a network composed of suppliers, producers, distributers andcustomers. The success of the whole managerial system depends on the systematiccoordination of the flow of these elements between the companies and within thecompany itself.By managing the whole chain fast, agile, efficient and more profitable will provide moreeffective use human and financial resourses. The increase in quality of both productsand services, the just in time principle in production, warehousing, logistics, distributionand retailing facilities will help to increase the power of the company in the competitivemarket and will provide an advantage to enlarge its market share.In textile industry; especially in the home textile branch in Turkey most of thecompanies acting in this market having their own brands organized the chain stores inTurkey and around the world. In this research one of the companies acting on hometextile reatiling sector is analysed and starting from the current position of the SCM inthe company, developing new solutions and the business pocesses and logisticsoperations are compared with the contemporary approaches and study attemps toanalyze the role of SCM in order to increase the competitive advantage.Key Words 1) Supply Chain Management, 2) Logistics 3)Supply Chain in Textile Industry4) Home textiles and Retailing 5) Logistics Management