E-Business Processes and its Influence on Supply Chain performance: In the Context of Indian Automobile Industries

Abstract

Supply chain encompasses the organized structure of institutions and organizations the purpose of which is to create products or provide services, raw material, work in progress material, and finally finished product to end users. This paper represents influence of e-business processes in improving performance of supply chain (SC) in context of Indian automobile Companies. This paper will help automobile companies to implement E-Business Processes to achieve better SC performance. This research tries to investigate impact of E-Business Processes on performance of SC of Indian automobile industries. In order to achieve this objective independent variable inventory management, logistics performance and information flow are tested over cost reduction and strategic gain as dependent variable. This study investigate that sample automobile companies attentive towards e-business processes, the sample automobile companies exercise e-business processes in operation of their supply chain and results shows that their supply chain is influence by development of e-business processes (inventory management, logistics performance and information flow). This research shows that practice of e-business processes is very important to achieve strategic gain and to cut of overall supply chain cost, which improves SC performance in context of Indian automobile Companies.