INTERNET-BASED SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT: A PILOT SURVEY FOR DETERMINING THE CHALLENGES IN THE INTERNET-BASED TEXTILE SUPPLY CHAIN

Even though the internet-based supply chain management (scm) is a very important system for companies, the adoption level of the internet-based scm was found as very low in surveyed turkish companies (ülengin and ülengin, 2003) and textile companies (barutçu, 2007). the main objective of this paper is to analyze the importance of the internet-based scm to enhance the performance of companies, and to determine the challenges during its applications in the textile supply chain. however, the survey that was conducted on 43 textile companies explored (1) why the adoption of the internet-based scm in textile supply chain was low, (2) what the main challenges and problems in the implementation of the internet-based textile supply chain were, and (3) how the adoption of the internet-based scm could be increased in the textile industry. according to the results of this survey, the low adoption level of this system was verified again; the troubles and challenges in the internet-based textile supply chain were determined in three sections related to textile industry, textile companies and the internet-based scm systems.