Özet:

The main objective of this research is to reveal the impact of cooperation activities on the reduction of operational risks of industrial enterprises located in Turkey throughout supply chains. In supply chain management, the risk management process is expressed in the form of risk identification, measurement and evaluation, the choice of appropriate risk management, the implementation of risk management strategy and the reduction of risks. The appropriate risk management strategy is the contents of the process of finding the appropriate risk reduction method to address the weaknesses in the supply chain. In this sense, cooperation is defined as a preventive risk management and reduction strategy. In this regard, on the operational level throughout the supply chain, the risk of demand and the risk of supply, which is referred to only as non-operational risks, has been addressed. Cooperation in supply chains is considered as supplier cooperation and customer cooperation and is associated with demand and supply risks. For the purpose of the work, the Turkish major thousand industrial enterprises, which were determined by the Istanbul Chamber of Industry for the year 2014, have been determined as the application area. The project support was provided by the Dumlupınar University Scientific Research Projects Commission in the framework of the study and data from a total of 214 enterprises were collected and analyzed through surveys.