Determinants of Supply Chain Management Practice And Thire Relation Ship with Competitive Position In Food Processing Industries of Adama Town, Oromia Regional State
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The food sector has changed rapidly in the past decade. The movement of people for work and migration has led to a demand for food products from across the globe and retailers are keen to oblige. The style of retail environments, the technology advancements in tracking, operations management and packaging have made it possible to import a food item from any part of the world at the right quality specifications. Manufacturing industry in Ethiopia is an emerging industry, the linkage and com placement condition have led them to be driven by supplier relationship ,information communication were not that much developed, however, this oligopoly nature of the market is begins to vanish soon as a lot of national and multinational manufacturing organization appealing into the market .The main purpose of conducting this study was to investigate the understanding, practical implementation of Supply chain management practices and their determinants towards competitive positioning in Food processing industries, Four key dimensions of Supply chain management factors (supplier partnership, customer relationship, information communication and supply chain integration and collaboration ) were used as independent variables with the dependent variable of competitive positioning, Data were obtained via questionnaires from a sample of 260 managerial and non managerial employees which worked in different functional area. Quantitative methods were applied to analyze data., while Pearson’s correlation and OLS model test were used to examine the relationship between dependent and independent variables. Accordingly, this paper will identify determinants of supply chain management practice and their relationship with competitive position in food processing industries of Adama town,Oromia regional state.
DOI: 10.20372/nadre:19553
Author: Muktar, Ahmed Salih
Language: English
Subfield: Management Information Systems
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7090250951
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