Identifying and Classifying the Enablers of Hand-woven Carpet Industry's Supply Chain Performance

Supply chain management is one of the subjects that much attention has been paid to it. Today competition of companies is not important anymore but supply chains are competing¡ so paying attention to supply chain is necessary and vital. Performance enablers of supply chain have been studied in a scattered manner; however these efforts are not comprehensive enough. In this paper these enablers are studied and classified. This paper has been conducted for handmade carpet supply chain. Handmade carpet is one of industries that has a good position in Iran¡ however the number of performed scientific researches in this field in not enough. This research has done in Kashan and exploratory factor analysis and second-order factor analysis have been employed. After exploratory factor analysis¡ enablers are classified into some groups¡ i.e. leadership and management¡ knowledge and information management¡ cooperation¡ ethic¡ relationship in supply chain¡ performance measurement¡ capacity management and strategy. Among these factors¡ leadership and management and cooperation are more important. Finally¡ we provide some recommendations to improve these factors.