Modeling the Supply Chain Management System of a Textile Industry

Supply chain networks are key issues to the success of a business or an enterprise within this century's global competition to satisfy esteemed customers. Effective modeling of supply chains is, therefore, the most recent concern of company owners, managers and researchers. Consequently, this book is aimed to encompass notions that can enhance existing supply chain practices of the case company by studying the existing supply chain management system and developing an improved one which can increase sales and profitability. With a focus on SCM in which cost, inventory and time are the key challenges, this book develops a model to aid the improvement of the performance of the supply chain system by taking one of the most widely used derivatives, cost, through the internal supply chain. In order to make the research practical and realistic, an actual case study was conducted on one of Ethiopian textile manufacturing industries, Bahir Dar Textile Share Company.