Observing and guiding of ready-made clothing sektor

Türkiye is one of the leading countries of textile industry. It has a great deal of market share of world ready-made clothing sector. In order to sustain its competitive advantage and follow the change and worldwide sectorial developments, there is a need for systematic assessment of the sector and find out the related problems and produce effective solutions. This assessment should inevitably produce strengths and weaknesses of the sector as well as opportunities and threats. This can only be achieved through a systematic and scientifically approved assessment and evaluation procedures. However, an extensive literature survey carried out in this study indicates no well known systematic assessment model. An assessment model which can identify driving forces of the confection sector and allow the proper assessment in the light of them was developed. By this mean, a strategic approach which can make it easy to perform situational analysis and help develop strategies and policies for driving the sector toward the future The thesis includes first a brief description of historical developments of textile sector in Turkey. Following this, a survey on the assessment of particularly confection sector including State Planning Organization (DPT) and Turkish Science and Technology Board (TUB?TAK) vision 2023 study is reviewed. After that, description of the proposed model and its components is provided. The model basically includes driving forces of the sector and seeks situational assessment. The proposed model is implemented in order to perform an assessment of Turkish ready-made clothing sector. In accordance with the directions of the model, sectorial situational analysis is performed. Than the list of sectorial driving forces is produced from the results of these analysis and are explained one by one. And the strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats of sector are produced for each driving forces. (SWOT analysis). Following this analysis, A set of strategies that can trigger the driving forces is created. For each strategy an action plan is generated. An action plan consists of possible actions, responsibles who should carry out the those as well as measurable targets that has to be achieved through implementing the actions. The plans also includes methods and periods of target measurements. All these details of plans are placed the tables which described in the model. The proposed model also provides some highlights and provisions for performance monitoring and improvements. This is intended to review the effectiveness of the proposed strategies and their affects on driving forces identified. The study is concluded by providing a general overview of the proposed model and the assessment carried out using the model as well as possible research directions. Keywords: Textile Sector, Readymade Garments, Assessment Model, Drawing Forces, Strategic Planning