Abstract
Cloud computing systems have emerged as a useful technology that contributes to this optimization SCI process by providing infrastructure, platform, and software solutions for the whole supply chain via the internet. But in developing regions like Ethiopia, there's a weak traditional, fragmental, non-integrated, weak, and underdeveloped supply chain process. There’s still space for research on real industrial applications where Ethiopian firms strive for cloud-based integration and implement new models and integration strategies practices in their supply chains. Thus, this study is designed to investigate the impacts of cloud computing technology on the supply chain integration process to improve the performance and comparative advantage of manufacturing industries in general, and the Ethiopian basic metal industry in particular. Using primary and literature survey data, the study has been carried-out through SPSS correlation and regression analysis methods. The study shows that the adoption and utilization of cloud-based services in supply chain integration leads to improvements in both the performance and competitiveness of the firm at regional and global levels. In particular, the cloud-based supply chain integration strategies provide enhanced resource utilization, reduce the constraints on information flow in the firm, increase product and service visibility, and create flexibility within systems within supply chain partners, and manufacturing industries as a whole. According to these investigations, cloud computing has a great impact on supply chain integrations so as to improve the performance and comparative advantage of the firm. Thus, effective and efficient utilization of cloud-based supply chain integrations has a higher positive impact on firm performance and competitiveness. Furthermore, this study demonstrates that data privacy, information risk, security issues, cloud architecture, process customization, and trust among collaborators must be prioritized for long-term supply chain systems and joint ventures in cloud-based supply chain integration.
Highlights
Manufacturers can get ahead of the game and better address demand by adopting the most recent and advanced technologies
The Internet of things, nanotechnology, and 3D printing are a number of the best technologies that are trending across the manufacturing landscape within this digital economy
The study shows, using primary and secondary data, that digitalization in the form of cloud computing, internet technology, big data analysis, and internet of things technology has had a significant impact on the performance and competitiveness of the manufacturing and services industries
Summary
Manufacturers can get ahead of the game and better address demand by adopting the most recent and advanced technologies. By incorporating new technology into their facilities, manufacturers are able to improve and enhance operational activities, processes, and the general quality of their products, while saving time and reducing costs. Sweeping technologies have driven the manufacturing sector to a very new level of optimal functionality where innovation and opportunities are pursued constantly. The Internet of things, nanotechnology, and 3D printing are a number of the best technologies that are trending across the manufacturing landscape within this digital economy. In order to meet customer expectations in product demands and services, manufacturing firms must implement an integrated digital supply chain process. Because integrated supply chain firms provide consumers with digital enablers such as smartphones, computers, tablets, and virtually "unrestricted" access to the internet from the comfort of their homes, at work, Alie Wube Damtew et al.: The Roles of Cloud-Based Supply Chain Integration on
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