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Item Examination of Food Supply Chain Practice In the Case of Sheraton Addis and Marriott Executive Apartments Hotel(Addis Ababa University, 2020-06) Mitiku, Solomon; Assefa, Teklegiorgis (Asst. Prof.)This study about the examination of food supply chain practice in Sheraton Addis and Marriott Executive Apartments hotel. Questions were asked related to supply chain management practice components like integration, information sharing, relationship and customer support and challenges on supply chain management. The study employed quantitative research design methods. Non-probability sampling method of judgmental sampling techniques was used to select the sample size from the population. Among a total of 219-food and beverage departments employee from both hotels, 50 employees were selected from them as a sample unit and 29 department heads and procurement staffs a total of 79 employee selected as a sample unit. In order to collect primary data, questionnaires were distributed to 79 employees and 62 respondents filled and replied. Data collected through questionnaire were analyzed using SPSS Window 20.0 version. The tests involved are frequency distribution and descriptive statistics. The result of the descriptive statistics indicated that the supply chain management related to integration for planning and control and relationship with suppliers and customers are below the average this means both hotels have a poor performance on two factors. Based on the findings result, it is advisable that both hotels should strength the collaboration with suppliers and customers in order to properly maintain the SCM practices. On the other way both hotels have a good experience in relation with customer and supplier and handling customer support order. It is also observed that lack of management support in supply chain and increasing competition within hotel industry considered as both hotels challenges in the implementation of supply chain management practices. This is; therefore, it is advisable for both hotel managements to give the necessary support to SCM to get the required materials at the right time, place with reasonable cost.Item Supply Chain Upstream Integration through Inbound Logistics (The Case of Kality Metal Products Factory)(Addis Ababa University, 2019-04) Mitiku, Solomon; Gulilat, Gatew (PhD); Haileluel, Mamo (Mr.) Co-AdvisorThis paper aims to explore whether inbound logistics improvement in the supply chain fosters an improvement of upstream supply chain integration. An explorative research design is implemented; correlation analysis is used to identify linear relationships between dependent and independent variables. In the analysis result it is clearly seen that, all the dimensions of an inbound logistics are positively and linearly correlated with upstream integration. Results highlight the importance supply chain professionals of taking an internal supply chain dimensions rather than focusing only on intra-company drivers. It also suggests the importance of exploring supply chain integration by considering core value chain activities. Past research has identified the impacts of supply chain integration intra-company drivers without addressing the importance of how much of the supply chain internal functions should be involved in such improvement efforts. This study provides empirical support for the need to involve supply chain internal dimensions of the supply chain