SUPPLIER CHOICE ON FURNITURE INDUSTRY

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One of the important factors of furniture industry, which can compete at national and international markets, can provide intended quality and amount raw material. For this reason, it has had importance that evaluation and selection methods of raw material suppliers. The supply-chain management system has aimed that it controls material supply, production and distribution stages in supply-chain from raw material to production and then end user. In this study, according to subject of production and number of workers it has researched criterions for supplier choice in enterprises by face to face survey method at 295 furniture industry enterprises in 24 Organized Industrial Zones. It has been found that the criterions of delivery on time (90%), quality of raw material (88%) and sufficiency at engineering design (76,9%) are important for the supplier choice.