Supply Chain Management Practices and Company competitiveness. The case of BLU Mineral Water Factory
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2018-06-05
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Addis Ababa University
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Effective Supply Chain Management has become a potentially valuable way of securing competitive advantage since competition is no longer between organizations, but among supply chains. This research conceptualizes and develops four dimensions of Supply Chain Management practice (strategic supplier partnership, customer relationship, level of information sharing and Internal Lean Practice) and tests the relationships between Supply Chain Management practices and competitiveness. Data for the study were collected from 50 employees’ of Blu Mineral water Bottling Factory Data collected through questionnaires were analyzed through descriptive statistics Pearson correlation and regression analysis technique to show the effect of independent variables on the dependent variable by using SPSS software version 20.0. The relationships proposed in the framework were tested using Pearson correlation, and the causal relations were analyzed using regression analysis. From the result of the analysis it is concluded that there is weak practice of SCM functions and found positive, strong relationship between Supply Chain Management practices and Competitive Advantage. As the result reviled that there is weak SCM practices in the case Factory, it should improve the practices in all dimensions to capture the necessary competitive advantage and the findings of this research were similar to former researches
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Supply Chain Management Practice, Competitiveness, Strategic