Supply Chain Management Practices of Weaving Industry

To compete successfully in today's challenging business environment, manufacturing companies should be able to integrate effectively the internal functions within a company and link them with the external operations of suppliers and supply chain members. As global competition increases, businesses should be more involved in how their suppliers and customers do business. They need to focus on process that has an impact on enhancing Supply Chain Managementperformance such as where materials come from, how their suppliers' products are designed and assembled, how products are transported and stored and what consumers really wants. This Paper identifies the Supply Chain Managementpractices of medium scale organizations of weaving industry located in Surat district. Total 137 manufacturing Organizations of weaving units located in Surat district were covered in the survey. Also the key Supply Chain Managementissues that are currently impacting the organizations and supply chain self assessment performance measurement were studied. The Mann-Whitney U test and Kruskal-Wallis test were performed for further analysis of the data.