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the us apparel industry a supply chain review alper sen department of industrial engineering bilkent university ankara 06800 turkey alpersen edu tr has been in transition over last 20 years significant consol idation retail majority manufacturing operations moving overseas and more recently increasing use electronic commerce wholesale trade this paper aims to current state recent trends across we wide data articles from business journals reviews describe operational practices how is restructuring itself during focusing at manufacture segments addition for an manufacturer california major store 1 introduction textile consists about 25 000 companies employing 500 people excluding retailing channels four top there are fiber producers using either natural or man made synthetic materials raw spun woven knitted into fabric by second segment usually called