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Applicability of military logistics practices to small scale apparel industry of Sri Lanka having agile supply chains

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dc.contributor.author Gamage, CJK
dc.contributor.author Samarasekare, N
dc.contributor.editor Gunaruwan, TL
dc.date.accessioned 2022-04-08T08:50:35Z
dc.date.available 2022-04-08T08:50:35Z
dc.date.issued 2019-09
dc.identifier.citation Gamage, C.J.K., & Samarasekare, N. (2019). Applicability of military logistics practices to small scale apparel industry of Sri Lanka having agile supply chains [Abstract]. In T.L. Gunaruwan (Ed.), Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Research for Transport and Logistics Industry 2019 (p. 3-4). Sri Lanka Society of Transport and Logistics. en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://dl.lib.uom.lk/handle/123/17612
dc.description.abstract Supply chain agility is achieved by enhancing the responsiveness and flexibility of a supply chain through fast and adaptive logistics and supply chain strategies. Supply chain agility is one of the vital aspects of the supply chain through which a firm can achieve competitive advantage, if the cost and risk involved is carefully managed. Because military operations are carried out in an extremely risky and uncertain environment, supply chains found in military operations are designed with fast and adaptive logistics strategies, so that maximum agility can be achieved. The objective of the research was to experiment the applicability of military agile logistics practices to the modern manufacturing supply chain (specifically for the small-scale apparel supply chain) and to identify potential differences between military supply chains and commercial supply chains. The Sri Lankan small scale apparel industry is used as proxy to ascertain the level of applicability of these military practices because of the high level of risk and uncertainty in the industry. This risk is a result of the pressure exerted by both up and downstream members (suppliers and customers) of the supply chain. A comprehensive literature review was conducted to identify potential military logistics strategies which could be applied in modern business environment, and six types of strategies were identified namely, Focus Logistics, Sense & Respond strategies, Performance Based Logistics (PBL), “Aufstragtaktik” strategy, “Blitzkrieg” strategy and Guerrilla warfare strategies. A sample consisting a number of small-scale apparel firms were surveyed. Military logistics strategies were absorbed to the questionnaire through MCQs (with a Likert scale). The managements of small-scale apparel firms were entrusted with entering responses, followed by a detailed interactive interview session. Each firm was assessed by giving marks based on their level of compliance with military logistics practices. A separate statistical approach was conducted to measure the agility of the firms in the sample, by measuring the coefficient of agility which was determined by the weekly market demand values experienced by each over the last seven weeks. The marks obtained from the survey were cross-matched with agility coefficients of each firm. It was observed that firms which had already been following the selected military logistics practices involuntarily recorded higher coefficients of agility, whereas firms which were much deviated from the selected military logistics strategies recorded lower coefficients of agility. Therefore, it was concluded that the selected military logistics practices could be applied to the modern small-scale apparel business environments to increase supply chain agility and minimize supply chain risks and uncertainty. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Sri Lanka Society of Transport and Logistics en_US
dc.subject Supply chain management en_US
dc.subject Agile supply chains en_US
dc.subject Responsive supply chains en_US
dc.subject Military logistics en_US
dc.subject Focus logistics en_US
dc.subject Military business applications en_US
dc.title Applicability of military logistics practices to small scale apparel industry of Sri Lanka having agile supply chains en_US
dc.type Conference-Abstract en_US
dc.identifier.faculty Engineering en_US
dc.identifier.department Department of Transport and Logistics Management en_US
dc.identifier.year 2019 en_US
dc.identifier.conference 4th International Conference on Research for Transport and Logistics Industry 2019 en_US
dc.identifier.place Colombo en_US
dc.identifier.pgnos pp. 3-4 en_US
dc.identifier.proceeding Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Research for Transport and Logistics Industry 2019 en_US
dc.identifier.email chethakasponge@gmail.com en_US


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