PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT In recent years, Vietnam's textile industry has played an increasingly important role in the growth of the economy. The textile and garment industry is considered as one of the key industries and key export industries of our country (PN, 2019). This is the most labor-intensive industry in the country, creating jobs for a large number of national people. Vietnam has its advantages to develop the textile and apparel industry such as a large population, a young population structure, abundant labor force, cheap labor costs and a country attracting a lot of foreign investment capital.
Therefore, promoting the development of the textile industry is very appropriate and necessary. In recent years, Vietnam's textile and garment industry has widely penetrated the world market, achieved high turnover and promised to achieve more outstanding achievements in the future. However, our country's textile industry in general and textile enterprises in particular still face many difficulties and challenges on the path of international market integration. Therefore, businesses need to constantly innovate policies to improve business efficiency, the efficiency of capital use, management capacity, efficient use of labor and assets to bring competitive advantages for the business, helping to create the highest profit.
During my internship at Am Thuong Garment Company, I learned a lot of useful knowledge and helped me to actualize the knowledge taught by teachers at school. Thereby, accumulating experience for myself and better understanding the production and business activities as well as the supply chain of a manufacturing enterprise. Luan van Thanks to the help of the staff in Am Thuong Garment Company and with the enthusiastic guidance of my teacher Pham Thanh Ha, I completed my internship and internship report. My internship report consists of 3 chapters: CHAPTER 1: GENERAL INTRODUCTIONS ABOUT AM THUONG GARMENT COMPANY CHAPTER 2: CURRENT SITUATION OF AM THUONG GARMENT COMPANY SUPPLY CHAIN CHAPTER 3: PROPOSE SOLUTIONS TO IMPROVE THE EFFICIENCY OF AM THUONG GARMENT COMPANY SUPPLY CHAIN Luan van CHAPTER 1: THEORETICAL BASIS ABOUT SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT 1.1 Defining supply chains “Supply chains is defined as a group of inter-connected participating companies that add value to a stream of transformed inputs from their source of origin to the end product or services that are demanded by the designated end – consumers (Dr.Dawei Lu – fundamentals of supply chain management)” “A supply chain is less a chain but rather a network of facilities and distribution options that performs the functions of procurement of materials, transformation of these materials into intermediate and finished products, and the distribution of these finished products to customers (Ganeshan and Harrison, 1995) A supply chain consists of all parties (manufacturers, suppliers, transporters, warehouses, retailers, and customers) and, within each organization, all the functions involved, directly or indirectly, in fulfilling a customer request (Chopra and Meindl 2010) => The supply chain is a system of businesses directly involved or indirectly meet customers' needs, including not only suppliers, manufacturer, but also shipping, warehousing, retailers and its customers.
It is a process that starts from the raw material until the finished product and delivered to the final consumer. Luan van Figure 1.1: Supply chain diagram (Source: Cafeland.2 Defining supply chain management “Supply chain management is the coordination of production, inventory, location, and transportation among the participants in a supply chain to achieve the best mix of responsiveness and efficiency for the market being served.” ( ESSENTIALS of Supply Chain Management - Hugos) Effective supply chain management requires simultaneous improvement customer service quality and internal operational efficiency of the business participating the supply chain. The most basic level of customer service is the fulfillment rate of orders and the on-time delivery rate is always high while the rate of returned goods is low in all cases. internal operational efficiency of businesses in the supply chain means the ability to earn high revenue on capital invested in goods and other assets, while also meaning that businesses must find ways to reduce production costs.3 Participants of the supply chain According Michael Hugos (2010), any supply chain needs a combination of businesses that perform many different functions.
These enterprises are manufacturers, distributors or wholesalers, retailers of goods and companies or individuals acting as customers.