Achieving Supply Chain resilience: the role of strategic sourcing

Abstract

Today's general market defined by the fluctuating needs and expectations of customers as the value or benefit that the customer envisions and looks for when purchasing a commodity or benefiting from the service of claimants and stakeholders who have high expectations in terms of outcomes, thus supply chain resilience can help these manufacturers to overcome these expected and unexpected upheavals. The ability of the supply chain to continue, adapt or transform in the face of change, and to achieve a significant competitive advantage. Supply chains are broad, deeper and ever evolving, which means they must be resilient to be effective. Previously, supply chains met the needs of organizations and customers by creating an integrated model that is largely unaffected by change. Now consumers have multiple choices in terms of how they buy products, whether in stores, online, and more. Consumers are also waiting for increased levels of personalization. Therefore, the resilience of the supply chain can meet these expectations. It is evident from this objective of this study is to investigate the effect of some strategic sources on the resilience of private supply chains in manufacturing companies located in Turkey. Through this study, we targeted through our study more than 200 manufacturing companies in Gaziantep and the surrounding areas, and random samples selected with a sample size of 80 manufacturing companies representing 11 industrial sectors in the manufacturing companies. Data collected with a questionnaire. Descriptive and inferential statistics with the help of statistical packages for the twenty-fourth edition of the social sciences used to calculate the percentages of respondents' answers. The study found that strategic sourcing was an important predictor of supply chain resilience, evidenced by the questionnaire used and the results provided.

JEL Classification:  L10

Paper type: Empirical research