The Effect of Supply Chain Management Challenges on the Performances of Humanitarian Aid Organization: the Case Study of Addis Ababa City Administration.
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2016-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Humanitarian supply chain is the network created through the flow of services, supplies,
information and finances between donors, beneficiaries, suppliers and different units of
humanitarian organizations, in order to provide physical aid to beneficiaries. Both the number
of natural and man-made challenges and the people affected by these challenges have
increased substantially during the recent decades. There exists a limited body of empirical
research within the field of humanitarian supply chain and this study is presented to address
this limitation by utilizing an operations research technique to examine, how the SC
performance can be improved. The research presented is builds on “The effect of supply
chain management challenges on the performances of humanitarian aid organization”. The
study took a descriptive and causal cross-sectional survey research design to describe
population characteristics and examine the effect of SCM challenges on the performances of
humanitarian aid organization. The study also equipped spearman‘s correlation to
determining the degree of correlation between the independent and dependent variables. For
the purpose of testing the developed hypothesis, simple and multiple linear regressions
analysis was used. The study was targeted to one hundred twenty three (123) humanitarian
aid organizations at Addis Ababa City Administration. Data were collected through primary
and secondary sources that were able to directly answer and fulfill the objective of the
study, and cronbach's alpha was used to measure the internal consistency of items in the
scale. The findings show that each dimension of supply chain management challenges has a
negative effect on responsiveness, collaboration, flexibility and cost performances. Finally
this study recommends that, it is advisable to closely working and collaboration with
different partners and stakeholders is extremely essential to minimize the SCM challenges,
and ensure service quality and sustainability. Therefore, this study is expected to fill the
empirical gap in literature on effects of supply chain management challenges on the
humanitarian aid organization, which need to be bridged to ensure that humanitarian supply
chains are improved and managed on the basis of informed evidence.
Keywords:
Humanitarian
supply
chain
management,
Performances measurement
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Humanitarian supply chain management, Performances measurement XI Supply chain challenges, Performances measurement