DETERMINING THE USAGE DESIRE TO TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP APPROACH WITH THE LOGIT MODEL IN THE DECISION OF PURCHASING BY MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISES

Year 2012, Volume: 3 Issue: 6, 240 - 267, 01.12.2012

M Suphi Orhan Turan Öndeş Hakan Yazarkan

Abstract

Enterprises have to outsource the most of goods and services that
they need in order to continue their operations. It is due to the costs of
outsourced goods and services represent a significant percentage within
total costs. Given the current global economic circumstances, enterprises
who are able to achieve cost savings in these items sustain a significant
competitive advantage over their rivals. Among the strategic cost
management techniques, Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) approach is
accepted as an effective tool for such cost savings. The main purpose of this
study is to forecast the willingness of use to TCO approach of manufacturing
enterprises in Turkey, according to their applied level of importance to
benefits and difficulties of this approach, using Logistic Regression Analysis.
The survey which had been prepared for this purpose had been applied on
225 enterprises among the 500 Large Manufacturing Enterprises of Turkey,
determined by Istanbul Chamber of Industry in 2010. Results showed that it
had been observed that the benefits of TCO have no effect on enterprises
decision making process while difficulties of this approach have negative
effects.

Keywords

Purchasing, Logit Model, Cost, Total Cost Of Ownership

SAHİPLİĞİN TOPLAM MALİYETİ YAKLAŞIMININ SATIN ALMA KARARLARINDA SANAYİ İŞLETMELERİ TARAFINDAN KULLANILMA İSTEĞİNİN LOGİT MODEL YARDIMIYLA BELİRLENMESİ

Abstract

Keywords

Satın Alma, Logit Model, Maliyet, Sahipliğin Toplam Maliyeti.