TITLE:
The Impact of Supply Chain Management Practices on Performance of Small and Medium Enterprises in Developing Countries: A Case of Agro-Dealers in Zambia
AUTHORS:
Mubanga Josephine Chileshe, Jackson Phiri
KEYWORDS:
Supply Chain Management, Performance, Competitive Advantage
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Business and Management,
Vol.10 No.2,
February
17,
2022
ABSTRACT: The Agro-sector in Zambia has evolved over the years contributing about
twenty percent (20%) of the gross domestic product (GDP). Today organizations
encounter with environment of global competition and for prosperity in this
environment, we need radical changes and creativity in work. Supply chain
management (SCM) is a thunderstruck organization with higher and lower
relationship that is involved in process and activities and like presentation product and
services to final customers to create value. It is important in organization. In
this research the aim was checking the influence that the adoption of supply
chain management practices has in business performance through competitive
priorities. The concept of SCM has received increasing attention from
academicians, consultants, and business managers alike (Tan, Lyman, & Wisner, 2002). Various
theories have offered insights on specific aspects or perspectives of SCM, such
as industrial organization and associated transaction cost analysis,
resource-based and resource-dependency
theory, competitive strategy, and social-political perspective (Stern & Reve, 1980).
However, despite the increased attention paid to SCM, the literature has not
been able to offer much by way of guidance to help the practice of SCM. This
has been attributed to the interdisciplinary origin of SCM, the conceptual
confusion, and the evolutionary nature of SCM concept. Much of the current
theoretical/empirical research in SCM focuses on only the upstream or
downstream side of the supply chain, or certain aspects/perspectives of SCM.
This identified a research gap to be filled by looking at both the downstream
and upstream sides of the supply chain and linking such activities to both
competitive advantage and organizational performance. The
target population was Small and Medium Agro-dealers
in Lusaka with a calculated sample size of 151. Regression Analysis was used to
answer the hypothesis. Research findings indicate
that application of supply chain management influences performance according to competitive priorities.