Assessment Of Practices And Factors Affecting Downstream Humanitarian Supply Chain Management Performance: The Case Of World Food Program Ethiopia
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2020-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Downstream humanitarian supply chain management is one of the major functions in the
supply chain management practice since it covers almost half of the operation performed
in the humanitarian supply chain management. The main objective of this study was to
examine the performance of downstream humanitarian supply chain management of World
Food Program using the factors taken from the world bank logistic performance index
these are customs practice, infrastructure, logistic quality and tracing and tracking with
respect to the cost of logistics, responsiveness, agility, asset management, and reliability.
The study also assesses the downstream humanitarian supply chain management practice
of the World Food Program Ethiopia concerning transport management, inventory
management, procurement practice, and warehouse management. The research design
employed was descriptive and explanatory research type besides the researcher were used
a quantitative research approach in conducting the study. The population of the study was
employees of the World Food Program Ethiopia. Data was collected using email and
analyzed using statistical package for social science. Descriptive analysis namely
percentage, mean and standard deviation; and inferential analysis namely Pearson
correlation and multiple linear regression were employed. The study indicated that
transport management practice is a strongly agreed practice in WFP Ethiopia. The study
also revealed that the performance measure questions reliability, responsiveness, and
agility in the World Food Program Ethiopian were an agreed practice in the organization
however cost and asset management were neutral. The study also showed there was a
negative and significant relationship between customs practices and downstream
humanitarian supply chain management performance of the World Food Program
Ethiopia however, infrastructure & tracing and tracking were not significant to the
performance of the World Food Program Ethiopia. The independent variables of customs
practices and tracing & tracking had predicting power on the downstream humanitarian
supply chain management performance of the World Food Program Ethiopia but
infrastructure and logistic quality did not affect the organizational performance of the
World Food Program Ethiopia.
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downstream humanitarian supply chain performance, factors affecting downstream, humanitarian supply chain performance.