Determinants Of Supply Chain Integration in Humanitarian Organization: In the Case of Goal Ethiopia
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2024-09
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Addis Ababa University
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Supply Chain integration is one of the ways through which humanitarian organizations can be more competitive to attain their objectives and thus better perform. This research targeted at “Determinants of supply chain integration in humanitarian organization: the case of Goal Ethiopia”. Now a day humanitarian supply chains, challenges are progressively increasing in number of complexities in the environment which they function, tend to be unstable, uncertain, less responsive, incompetent, and ineffective. Despite the purpose of the study descriptive and explanatory research design is used to investigate the Couse-and-effect relationship; to realize variation in the variable that expected reason to the change in the other variable and then measure the changes in the other variable using statistical methods. However, sample population were drawn from Oromia, Amhara, Gambela, Afar and Addis Ababa regional office staffs of Goal Ethiopia Program which accounts a total of 104 respondents. Both primary and secondary data sources of data were samples drawn using stratified sampling design as staff were classified based on their. Both qualitative and quantitative research approach is used and data were collected using questionnaires and analyzed with the help of SPSS Version 24.
Results further concluded that both customer and supplier integration partially mediate the relationship between internal integration and Supply chain performance. This reiterates the fact that there is not only the need to ensure the optimum level of internal integration to exploit the output of the organization but such efforts also need to be linked with integration practices with customers and suppliers as well for enhancing the output i.e. performance of the supply chain.
Key words: Supply Chain Integration, Humanitarian Organization and Goal Ethiopia College