As each company characteristic’s level or extent increases or decreases, the
company’s inventory performances are likely to change accordingly. Especially, apparel
manufacturers' product line characteristics, fabric suppliers’ delivery performance, and
retail customer’s type were found to cover wider measures of inventory performance
compared to the other company characteristics. On-time delivery rate and delivery leadtime
regardless of product line, were found to be more susceptible to changes in company
characteristics. Overall, basic goods’ inventory performance measures were more likely
to be related with the company characteristics. Therefore, the null hypotheses (i.e., H3a0,
H3b0, H3c0, H3d0) that stated no relationship between company characteristics and
inventory performance were rejected. All the significant relationships between the four
company characteristics and fashion goods and basic goods inventory performance were
depicted in Figure IV-3 and Figure IV-4 respectively