Abstract
The Agro-sector in Zambia has evolved over the years contributing about twenty percent (20%) of the gross domestic product (GDP). Today organizations encounter with environment of global competition and for prosperity in this environment, we need radical changes and creativity in work. Supply chain management (SCM) is a thunderstruck organization with higher and lower relationship that is involved in process and activities and like presentation product and services to final customers to create value. It is important in organization. In this research the aim was checking the influence that the adoption of supply chain management practices has in business performance through competitive priorities. The concept of SCM has received increasing attention from academicians, consultants, and business managers alike (Tan, Lyman, & Wisner, 2002). Various theories have offered insights on specific aspects or perspectives of SCM, such as industrial organization and associated transaction cost analysis, resource-based and resource-dependency theory, competitive strategy, and social-political perspective (Stern & Reve, 1980). However, despite the increased attention paid to SCM, the literature has not been able to offer much by way of guidance to help the practice of SCM. This has been attributed to the interdisciplinary origin of SCM, the conceptual confusion, and the evolutionary nature of SCM concept. Much of the current theoretical/empirical research in SCM focuses on only the upstream or downstream side of the supply chain, or certain aspects/perspectives of SCM. This identified a research gap to be filled by looking at both the downstream and upstream sides of the supply chain and linking such activities to both competitive advantage and organizational performance. The target population was Small and Medium Agro-dealers in Lusaka with a calculated sample size of 151. Regression Analysis was used to answer the hypothesis. Research findings indicate that application of supply chain management influences performance according to competitive priorities.
Highlights
The idea of supply chain management is to evaluate the processes of planning implementation and controlling of material, of finished goods all the way to the end-user; the interconnected activities of supply chain begin with a customer order, and are complete when the goods are in the hands of the customers
The supply chain management (SCM) framework for this study proposes that SCM practices have a direct impact on the performance of an organization’s practices, when implemented are expected to increase organization’s market share, return on investment and overall competitive advantage
The findings explore the causal relationship between supply chain performance (SCP) and Small-Medium Enterprises (SMEs) performance
Summary
The idea of supply chain management is to evaluate the processes of planning implementation and controlling of material, of finished goods all the way to the end-user; the interconnected activities of supply chain begin with a customer order, and are complete when the goods are in the hands of the customers. SCM practices are defined as the set of activities undertaken by an organization to promote effective management of its supply chain. The practices of SCM are proposed to be a multi-dimensional concept, including the downstream and upstream sides of the supply chain. It is expected that the current research, by addressing SCM practices simultaneously from both upstream and downstream sides of a supply chain, will help researchers better understand the scope and the activities associated with SCM and allow researchers to test the antecedences and consequences of SCM practice. By offering a validated instrument to measure SCM practices, and by providing empirical evidence of the impact of SCM practices on an organization’s competitive advantage and its performance, it is expected that this research will offer useful guidance for measuring and implementing SCM practices in an organization and facilitate further research in this area
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