The influence of supply chain management over the companies competitiveness

The globalization of the world markets, the flexibility which is provided by technological improvements, the increase in speed and productivity, the practice of transition steps to the informatin society, the gradually shortening lives of products, the reduce in the periods of presentations of new products to the market and continously varying and changing customer needs force firms to rehandle their administrations concepts. The concept of novelty which dominates the markets has been also changing the competition dynamics continously. Firms, in order to provide the balance between reaching their goals by obtaining the competition power in the direction of these changings and providing their customers' needs have tended to handle their products, service and information currents as a whole in the frame of links which reach from their suppliers to their customers. This approach of management is called "Supply Chain Management-SCM". In order to evaluate the effect of the practice of supply chain management on the firm's competition power, the changings in supply chain structure and procedure with purchase, production, marketing, logistics and information technologies have been examined. Besides, the importance of realisation of the common managements of these functions in the internal processes of business as much as in the supply chain management has been tried to be stressed. In the content of this study, the general view of the Turkish Electronic Sector, improvement dynamics, its position in the country's industry and the dimension of international competition have been searched. Moreover, to evaulate the practice of SCM in the Turkish Electronic Sector, a questionare and an area survey have been made. In the conclusion of the survey, the peculiarities of the firms which are active in this sector, their approach to the practice of SCM and the relation between the practice of SCM and competition power in both domestic market and foreign market have been tried to be determined. Data of this survey have been evaulated in a statistical format. According to these outcome of the field study, there have been some findings that there are relationship between the practice of SCM with the competition power at both domestic market and foreign market.