Design of Efficient Textile Supply Chain in Emerging Economies

Abstract

Since 2000s textile indust,y has experienced many significant changes like abolishment of Multi Fibre Agreement (MFA), increasing need of vertical integration in the textile indus!ly, popularity of manmade fibre, etc. ft has been observed that research related to the supply chain perspective of textile industry is limited to developed nations and some specific domain areas. Also, several scholars have advocated the requirement of proper coordination mechanism among textile supply chain members. Based on the activities performed in apparel value chain or textile supply chain, members of the textile supply chain can be classified into cotton producer, yarn producer, and apparel producer. In this paper, a three level supply chain structure is incorporated to represent the textile supply chain of emerging economies in a realistic way. In addition, the interaction among the members of domestic textile supply chain and every player's interaction with the corresponding foreign market are depicted and appropriate contract to achieve the textile supply chain coordination is developed.