Supply Chain Performance Improvement Model In Ethiopia Meat Processing Industry
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2016-03
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
This paper describes the measurement of supply chain performance in Ethiopian meat processing
industries. SCM is a process for designing, developing, optimizing, and managing the internal
and external components of the supply system in a manner that is consistent with the overall
firm‘s objectives and strategies. Performance measurement is the process of quantifying
effectiveness and efficiency of action. The Ethiopia meat processing industries has many supply
chain problems. The main reason for these problems could be the lack of conceptual framework
and lack of measure supply chain performance among meat processing industries. These
challenges impact on the country‘s current share in the global export market for meat is less.
Aware of these problems, this study was conducted mainly to evaluate supply chain performance
regarding performance measurement indicators of meat processing companies in Ethiopia Then
determining the key indicators of companies‘ performance measurement by using the analytic
hierarchy process (AHP) to improve supply chain performance for industries. The study uses the
concept of decision making levels and supply chain macro processes as its approach to the study
of the supply chain performance measurement. Questioner survey and semi structural interviews
were used to collect the data for this study.
The whole finding involves the analysis of an overall supply chain performance from three
supply chain macro processes; supplier relationship management, internal supply chain
management and customer relationship management based on strategic, tactical and operational
decision making levels. It was evident that the internal supply chain management was the most
preferred supply chain macro process in Ethiopia meat Processing industries. These results in the
meat Processing industries intended to concentrate on its internal supply chain since it was the
most important for the companies. The results also proposed that supplier relationship
management was the least important to those companies compared with others.
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supply chain management, performance improvement model, analytic hierarchy process, meat processing industry