The Role Of Supply Chain Integration On Performance Of Selected International Humanitarian Organizations In Ethiopia
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2020-06
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Addis Ababa University
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Supply Chain integration is considered as one of the ways through which humanitarian
organizations can be more competitive to achieve their goals and thus better perform. This
research aimed at measuring the role of supply chain integration on performance of selected
international humanitarian organizations operating in Ethiopia. Firstly, it aimed at exploring
current level of supply chain integration practices that exist across humanitarian supply chains
in Ethiopia. Secondly, examined the impact of supply chain integration on performance of
humanitarian organizations in Ethiopia. Supply chain integration was defined and analysed in
terms of three dimensions of Inter-organizational information integrations, Interorganizational resource sharing & coordination and Intra-organizational internal Process
Integrations. Today’s humanitarian supply chains, due to challenges posed by the steadily
increasing number of complexities in the environment they operate, tend to be unstable,
uncertain, less responsive, inefficient and ineffective. These problems with the humanitarian
supply chain were the triggering factors that initiated undertaking of this stud. A structured
questionnaire was developed, and primary data gathered from a purposively selected sample of
36 respondents from major six international humanitarian organizations which conduct Supply
chain and logistics activities as their core businesses. Pearson Correlation was used to
understand and analyse the first objective, whereas regression analysis was used to analyse the
relationship between SCM integration and organizational performance. Multiple linear
regression model was adopted to predict organizational performance from the three supply
chain integration dimensions. The study established that most HOs practiced SC integration
practices among one another and between their own functions. The findings also revealed that
there is very significant relationship between SCI and organizational performance and all the
SCI variables account for 78.6 % of the variation in the performance of humanitarian
organizations. All the three independent variables were statistically significant with p-value of
less than 0.05. It is recommended that all humanitarian organizations should embrace all the
three dimensions of supply chain integrations practices to enhance their organization overall
performances. Further research is recommended through inclusion of other supply chain
operators such as beneficiaries, governments institutions, private companies and donor
agencies as units of analysis.
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Performances of Humanitarian Organizations, Humanitarian Supply Chain, Humanitarian Supply Chain Integrations, Internal Process Integrations, Resource sharing and Coordination