SUPPLY CHAIN OPTIMIZATION AND DISTRIBUTION NETWORK APPLICATION WITH AHP IN A YARN COMPANY

In today’s global market, entire management of supply chain becomes a key factor for successful business processes. worldwide organizations realize they’re inadequate for success in non-integrated manufacturing/distribution processes&weak realitionships with suppliers/customers. supply chain management becomes main solution for getting high profits and low costs. a fundamental characteristic of logistics is holistic structure with integrated view of all activities. logistics is distribution of important components like procurement, warehouse management, inventory management, transportation management. it also deals with integration and other activities to provide time and value to the system or corporation.the problems have been determined by swot analysis in a company.in this study, model of analytical hierarchy process is designed for solution of supplier selection problem; distribution network problem is modelled with linear programming and solved by using winqsb software. in this paper, the optimized distribution network from yarn company to warehouse and customers is tried to achieve by developing optimized supply chain model.