Supply Chain Performance of selected leather Footwear firms in Addis Ababa
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2011-06
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Addis Ababa University
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Traditionally, organization views customers or suppliers as an entity in business rather than considering and persuading them for more potential in becoming a business partner. However, currently Supply Chain Management is identified as a strategic tool for firms to improve their performance and secure competitiveness.
This research identifies five aspects of SCM: supplier and customer relationship, internal operation, information sharing, information technology and supply chain performance. The survey was conducted to explore the extent to which selected Medium and Large Size leather footwear manufacturing firms in Addis Ababa performs in those SCM variables and to compare the mean performance difference among firms in implementing those SCM variables. The data related with firms SCM implementation was gathered through questionnaire from firm managers in charge of SCM responsibility. Thus, each response of a given respondents in their respective firm were added and divided to the number of respondents of that firm to get representative mean for each particular item. The calculation has been continued until the researcher finished computing a mean value for each item to each firms under study. The data obtained was analyzed using Descriptive statistics, and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was applied to compare the mean performance differences among surveyed firms.
The result shows that, there was significance performance differences of SCM among these Medium and Large footwear firms selected for the study. .
Key words: Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Performance, Footwear Industry
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Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Performance, Footwear Industry