ABSTRACT

The share of the transportation sector, which can be described as having a large development area when the habits from past to present are examined, has an important place in Turkiye, especially in the world. In Turkiye, the materials with the highest market value in exports are transported by sea. When the maritime sector in our country is examined, there is a visible demand in ship purchase and repair. Since demand is higher than supply in ship construction and maintenance, there is difficulty in material supply. For this reason, alternative methods are being sought in material supply. In this research study, the criteria used by shipyards in purchasing materials were investigated and the parameters affecting supplier selection attitudes were determined. Multiple parameters affect supplier selection attitude. In this article, multiple factors were examined in supplier selection. The effects of supplier decision, quality, responsibility, logistics and delivery factors on supplier selection were considered. As a result of an online survey with a total of 240 shipyard employees in Istanbul and Yalova, it is seen that liability, distribution and logistics markets affect supplier selection. Structural equation modeling, which is a multivariate statistical method that allows the identification of causal and relational consequences between observable and unobservable variables, was used in the study. Responsibility, delivery and logistics services, which are determined as research parameters, affect supplier selection. The quality factor has no effect on the research parameter. The impact of demographic characteristics such as age, gender and department on supplier selection was not observed. In addition, it has been determined that the logistics factor has a mediating power in the effect of the responsibility factor on the supplier.