The increasing trend of globalisation of upstream supply chains in the apparel industry has taken in different strategic forms. Main objectives of this research are to investigate the different factors influencing each decision of outsourcing and offshoring in apparel industry in SL, different impacts on Supply Chain Performance Indicators caused by the outsourcing and offshoring decisions, and positive or negative relationships between each influencing factor for outsourcing and offshoring and the supply chain performance measurements so that the initial viability of the decision for outsourcing and offshoring could be assessed based on the current performance of the Supply Chain visible through KPIs.

Perera, I., & Jayaratne, P. (2016). Assessing the impact of global outsourcing and global offshoring over the upstream supply chains of apparel industry: a Sri Lankan context [Extended Abstract]. In T.L. Gunaruwan (Ed.), Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Research for Transport and Logistics Industry 2016 (pp. 139-142). Sri Lanka Society of Transport and Logistics. https://slstl.lk/r4tli-2016/