Factors Affecting Implementation of Supply Chain Management Practices: The Case of Research Triangle Institute International in Ethiopia Project, Feed the Future Ethiopia
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2024-06
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Addis Ababa University
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Supply chain management techniques, such as information technology application and decision- making frameworks, information exchange, teamwork, and management integration, have helped various industries enhance their supply chains by reducing inefficiencies, raising customer satisfaction, and lowering operating expenses. Consequentially, researcher examines factors that have an effect on the implementation of supply chain management practices in international organizations. The researcher uses an explanatory survey design with a target population of 107 employees in total for the RTI International Ethiopian project. The researcher used a census and sent out a questionnaire to all of them, and primary data was collected from the responses of the employees and secondary data from published resources. In order to determine the relative importance of each variable with regard to the organization's implementation of supply chain management practices, the quantitative data collected was analyzed using descriptive statistics like frequency, percentages, mean, and standard deviation using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 24. The results were then presented using frequency tables and figures. According to the result, the researcher concluded that information sharing, inventory management, organizational size, human capital efficiency, and management support have a big impact on how supply chain management strategies are implemented. In light of this, those factors positively affect the application of SCM. From the mentioned variables, good human capital efficiency, a good inventory management system, and a good information sharing method have the highest contribution to the implementation of SCM at the organization. The researcher recommends that the management needs to support their team in different ways, and they also need to reevaluate their organizational size and determine in what way it is affecting the implementation of SCM at the organization.
Keywords: Supply chain management, information sharing, human capital efficiency, organizational size, management support, inventory management