Examining the role of production and purchasing supply chain management using PLS-SEM approach in the UK textile industry

College of Business, Technology and Engineering Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield S1 1WB, UK

^* Corresponding author: S.Saad@shu.ac.uk

Abstract

This study focuses on the specific types of supply chain strategies throughout the UK textile industry as extant literature has either emphasized on the fashion apparel industry or on sub-industry of fast fashion. Likewise, this study is quite beneficial for the fashion apparel industry to restructure its own purchasing departments for buying fabrics, materials, and garments. However, a third party is included in this production phase. Lastly, this study is significant for fashion apparel industry for the purchasing or producing of all the raw materials, which is important for the garment production as well as their own manufacturing facilities. The paper also used the idea of PLS-SEM to validate a production and purchasing supply chain management strategies framework proposed by the authors of this paper, which can be found in Komal and Saad [7].