THE ROLE OF INDUSTRIAL CLUSTERS IN RAISING THE EFFICIENCY OF GARMENT INDUSTRY'S SMALL ENTERPRISES

As the international experiences of many small industrial projects pointed to the problems that led to the failure of these projects, especially in the field of ready-made garments, to achieve savings in the volume of materials when purchasing materials necessary for production such as raw materials and equipment, in addition to the problems of poor financing and consulting services, which prevents These projects achieve marketing opportunities that require mass production, homogeneous standards and regular supply. (Lubna Abd al-Latif: 2003).Given that these projects operate separately and separately, this leads to exposure to many obstacles that affect the performance of the facility, and since convergence and cooperation between small industrial enterprises is the main factor in overcoming and facing these obstacles, and it also contributes to improving the competitive position of these projects, This led to the emergence of what are known as "industrial clusters, known as geographical groupings of a number of companies and institutions linked to each other in a specific field, representing an integrated system of industries and complementary industries such as buttons, zippers, packaging, padding, ticks and other auxiliary entities such as embroidery."