TITLE:
Converting Digital Transformation into Supply-Chain Efficiency: Capability-Based Mechanisms in Ghanaian Manufacturing Firms
AUTHORS:
Kwame Asamoah, Wisdom Nchor Akannobe
KEYWORDS:
Digital Transformation, Supply-Chain Efficiency, Supply-Chain Visibility, Supply-Chain Integration, Reconfiguration Capability, Ghanaian Manufacturing
JOURNAL NAME:
American Journal of Industrial and Business Management,
Vol.16 No.10,
October
12,
2026
ABSTRACT: Digital transformation is widely expected to improve manufacturing supply chains, yet its operational value may depend less on technology acquisition than on the organisational capabilities through which digital information is converted into coordinated and adaptive action. Drawing on Organisational Information Processing Theory and the Dynamic Capabilities View, this study examines a serial capability pathway linking digital transformation to supply-chain efficiency through supply-chain visibility, supply-chain integration and reconfiguration capability, while testing environmental uncertainty and internal digital capability as boundary conditions. A stratified firm-level survey yielded 200 usable responses from medium and large Ghanaian manufacturing firms. Composite-score path models were estimated with HC3 heteroskedasticity-consistent standard errors, bootstrapped indirect effects, formal discriminant-validity diagnostics and missing-data sensitivity analyses. Digital transformation was strongly associated with visibility (β = 0.614, p p p p p p = 0.051), and internal digital capability did not moderate the final relationship. Sensitivity analyses using stricter item-completion rules and complete-item cases preserved the substantive pattern. The findings indicate that digital transformation is operationally valuable when it improves information visibility and supports adaptive reconfiguration rather than through technology adoption alone.