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    The Effect of Supply Chain Management Challenges on the Performances of Humanitarian Aid Organization: the Case Study of Addis Ababa City Administration.
    (Addis Ababa University, 2016-06) Tesfay, Mebrahtom; Ejigu, Abebe (PhD)
    Humanitarian supply chain is the network created through the flow of services, supplies, information and finances between donors, beneficiaries, suppliers and different units of humanitarian organizations, in order to provide physical aid to beneficiaries. Both the number of natural and man-made challenges and the people affected by these challenges have increased substantially during the recent decades. There exists a limited body of empirical research within the field of humanitarian supply chain and this study is presented to address this limitation by utilizing an operations research technique to examine, how the SC performance can be improved. The research presented is builds on “The effect of supply chain management challenges on the performances of humanitarian aid organization”. The study took a descriptive and causal cross-sectional survey research design to describe population characteristics and examine the effect of SCM challenges on the performances of humanitarian aid organization. The study also equipped spearman‘s correlation to determining the degree of correlation between the independent and dependent variables. For the purpose of testing the developed hypothesis, simple and multiple linear regressions analysis was used. The study was targeted to one hundred twenty three (123) humanitarian aid organizations at Addis Ababa City Administration. Data were collected through primary and secondary sources that were able to directly answer and fulfill the objective of the study, and cronbach's alpha was used to measure the internal consistency of items in the scale. The findings show that each dimension of supply chain management challenges has a negative effect on responsiveness, collaboration, flexibility and cost performances. Finally this study recommends that, it is advisable to closely working and collaboration with different partners and stakeholders is extremely essential to minimize the SCM challenges, and ensure service quality and sustainability. Therefore, this study is expected to fill the empirical gap in literature on effects of supply chain management challenges on the humanitarian aid organization, which need to be bridged to ensure that humanitarian supply chains are improved and managed on the basis of informed evidence. Keywords: Humanitarian supply chain management, Performances measurement