Iris Publishers- Journal of Textile Science & Fashion Technology | Procurement Risk Management in International Supply Structures

Authored by Maria Rosaria Marcone

In the current economic contexts, we are witnessing profound changes in the processes of structuring supply chains internationally. On the one hand, supply chains are constituted in new ways in certain geographical areas and we see real relocalizations of supply chains that are differentially specialized in the various world locations. On the other hand, supply chains, even those that connote made in Italy, are internationalized as a whole [1-4].

Another significant phenomenon is the repositioning in the international supply chain by the Italian knitwear firms operating in the business to consumer (B2C) markets. In recent years there have been many companies that have modified the content of the strategies and characteristics of their organizational structure in order to protect new “interstitial spaces” (or micro-segments) in international markets.

A further starting point for reflection and managerial investigation is the emergence of new buyer-supplier relationships in new product development (NPD) processes in creative Italian sectors. Industrial innovation based on the involvement of suppliers in specific and experimental ‘design-engineering’ processes that highlight the need for buyers and suppliers to structure international bargaining between bargaining and relational governance in a new way.

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