SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT PERFORMANCE EFFECTIVENESS OF MANUFACTURING FIRMS IN TRII{COMALEE DISTRICT

Abstract

Supply chain effectiveness helps to provide many direct and indirect benefits for suppliers and manufacturing companies, where it represent the ability to invent and produce solutions that add more value to (customers) than existing offers, and it also adds great importance for both manufacturing companies, supplier network, and other parties. By utilizing resource-based, consider theory. The purpose of this research is to determine the effect of various dimensions of Supply chain management practices on Supply chain performance effectiveness selected four manufacturing firms. Thus, the study objectives are to identiff the level of SCM practices and its dimensions, supply chain performance effectiveness, to identify relationships among SCM practices and Supply chain performance effectiveness, and to identiff impact of SCM practices on Supply chain performance effectiveness among the executive level employees of four selected manufacturing companies. The study accompanies with quantitative research approach. The study used primary data. A structured questionnaire has used as the method of data collection and the questionnaire included 25 questions with five-point Likert scale ranging from strongly disagree to strongly agree. ln this study, the researcher attempts to highlight the firm's Supply chain performance effectiveness with respect to other variables, by using the information found in the 208 executive level employees from four selected manufacturing firms. A quota sampling technique has used to make method of sampling framework. Collected data were analyzed using SPSS 22.0 analysis. The data were measured using descriptive statistics, correlation and regression analysis. In this study, the statistical tools that used to analyze the level of variables are mean and SD values, while relationship were measured by person coefficients and simple and multiple regressions for measure impact of variable. Hens, this study helps managers to understand SCM practices and supply chain perforrnance effectiveness in order to face and control the high competitiveness in their organization in effective, efficient and practical manner.