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    The strategic relationship building through value procurement: A systematic review of literature from the apparel industry.
    (International Research Symposium on Pure and Applied Sciences, 2017 Faculty of Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017) Karunarathna, K. N. P.; Rasanjani, P. M. D.; Weerasekara, M. M.; Rupasinghe, T. D.
    In the midst of the dynamics in the domain of supply chain management, most of the businesses are forced to strengthen the strategic relationships with their supplier base. Therefore, companies tend to move away from the traditional supplier-buyer relationship to a longer-term collaborative strategic relationship with a limited number of key suppliers. Strategic relationship building symbolizes the importance of enterprise wide thinking where functional units inside the firms and key suppliers from the firm’s supply chain all work in concert to bring value to the marketplace. The purpose of this study is to explore how the strategic relationship building with suppliers in the procurement process enhances the overall operational performance of apparel industry. For an example, in apparel industry, quality and the productivity should be calculated at the initial stage of the production. Value procurement models allow firms on selecting the best quality, cost and other factors instead of selecting the lowest cost supplier. Consequently, the study identifies the set of appropriate procurement strategies to minimize impact of costs to the production processes to retain long term relationship among suppliers. This study is based on a comprehensive, systematic review of literature published in relation to the areas of strategic supplier relationship and value procurement applicable to the apparel industry. The findings of this research is based on reviews of 17 articles which describe different models, frames, processes and appropriate theoretical terms. Through the effective categorization and integrative analysis of the above findings, this paper expects to introduce an innovative conceptual model of how to develop strategic supplier relationships to maximize the effectiveness of the industry.
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    Simulation-based modeling approach for collaborative supply chains from the perspective of apparel industry.
    (International Research Symposium on Pure and Applied Sciences, 2017 Faculty of Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017) Lakmal, R. D. S.; Rupasinghe, T. D.
    Supply chain collaboration has become a widely spoken and researched topic in every industrial standpoint. The depth and the width of the chain partners and activities are rapidly increasing, and have become difficult to achieve the best efficiencies by performing as isolated partners. Although the word collaboration is easy to understand, achieving it practically has become a difficult and complex task. Numerous researchers have investigated in areas such as identifying collaborative enablers, barriers of collaboration, developing indexes to measure collaboration, collaboration vs performance. However, a very few research studies have focused on understanding the practical aspect of improving collaboration in supply chains. Therefore, in this study the authors have utilized a simulation-based approach to assess how collaborative practices among different partners in the supply chain affect the collaboration level of an industry and time dependent variants for an industry to achieve maximum benefits of collaboration. The simulation models were developed using Netlogo open source modelling platform, focusing on three types of agents in the supply chain where the suppliers, manufacturers, retailers and behavior of these different partners was modeled. The study utilizes the apparel industry as the tested and thus, the Netlogo simulation models determine the effects of collaborative practices across those aforementioned partners. The outcomes of this study will facilitate the identification of critical factors which the industry should focus on, in order to enhance the collaboration in supply chains in apparel industry, and that can be further improved to enhance the collaboration of various other industries as well.
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    Supply chain collaboration for sustainable Industry 4.0: A case study from the apparel industry.
    (International Research Symposium on Pure and Applied Sciences, 2017 Faculty of Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017) Gamage, D. D.; Rupasinghe, T. D.
    Due to the advancement of technology and the dominance of the consumer economy, it has become important for businesses to adopt sustainable practices and innovative technologies to boost productivity in their business processes. The purpose of such sustainable practices is in bringing in balance between the economic, social and environmental spheres of a business. The advancement of technology has brought the 4th industrial revolution to the world in which businesses around the world are integrating the use of cyber-physical systems for improved outcomes. There are studies conducted on the impact of Industry 4.0 applications on collaborative supply chains. The focus of this is study is to simulate the applications of Industry 4.0 in supply chain collaboration in driving sustainability in the apparel industry using NetLogo – a programmable modelling environment. It will use an existing framework of collaboration characteristics supported through Industry 4.0 application and will consider the behavior of supply chain agents under varying conditions of certain specified characteristics. It will study how information sharing, sense making, resource pooling, goal congruency, empowerment and cross functionality of the collaborative supply chain impact on its sustainability in terms of carbon emissions with Life Cycle Assessment. This study shows that improved levels of collaboration through Industry 4.0 applications have a positive effect in reducing the carbon footprint of the supply chain of the apparel industry.