The Role Of Supply Chain Integration On Freight Transport Performance: The Case Of Ethiopian Shipping And Logistics Enterprise In Kality Branch
No Thumbnail Available
Date
2020-06
Authors
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Due to lack of long term relation with suppliers, poor infrastructure, instability of
higher manager and employees turn over. Moreover, Enterprise Resource Planning
(ERP) is not implemented yet and these make: the relationship become weak among
the actors on the supply chain, unavailability of spare parts on time, vehicles with high
cost but low round trip, In order to solve those problem, the researcher believe that
trying to show the supply chain integration on performance of on Kaity freight
transport sector was needed. Thus, the researchwas undertaken.
The primary data was collected using likert scale questionnaires distributed to
company employees and interviews for selected expertise. The dependent variable was
supply chain performance. Independent variables were internal, external, customer,
x
supplier and information integration. The target populations were 89 employees. The
researcher utilized sampling techniques to select the participants. The descriptive
statistics was used to analyze the supply chain practice and explanatory analysis to
determine relationship between supply chain dimension and supply chain performance
and to test the hypothesis. Accordingly, the regression output indicated that internal
integration, information integration and supplier integration have a significance and
positive effect on company supply chain performance. And the remaining variables
namely external and customer integration were insignificant. All the five independent
variables are making 54.57% of the contribution for supply chain integration
performance. Thus, the researcher recommended that it is better for the organization
to give due emphasis about external and customer integration so as to improve the
organization performance. In addition, the good practice that the organization
performed such as internal integration, information integration and supplier
integration should be continued. On the other hand, short term training should be
given to those employees who are directly related to transport operation in order to
gain a competitive advantage.
Description
Keywords
Supplies Chain, Supply Chain Integration, Supply Chain Performance.