Supply Chain Integration and Supplier Management in Supply Chain Effectiveness of Supply Chain Integration and Supplier Management in Supply Chain Networks

Abstract

In the last one (1) decade, there has been an increased focus on Supply Chain Management (SCM) as a competitive weapon due to the significant effects that supply chain activities have on all elements of an organization’s financial performance, including operating performance and costs, revenue growth, as well as a growth in the asset management. Integration in supply chain networks has turn out to be a subject of investigation as well as for the professional practices.Theoretical and practical understanding on the supply chainintegration was considered asinadequatein Pakistan as so far the research had been descriptive mostly. Encouraged by the lack of research and variety of benefits, the goal of this study is to comprehend what is supply chain and integration between different players involved.Furthermore highlight what are the crucial factors for implementation of the supply chain integration. Further to that this research focused on highlighting the factors that effects the Supply Chain performance which is directly proportional with overall growth of the organizations. A quantitative methodology had been used to furnish this research work where professional networks and online approach was undertaken. Information in this matterwas collected from the different sectors ofmanufacturing, Humanitarian/Non government organizations and sourcing agencies of Pakistan. In these organizationsinformation was gathered from the officer to senior level managersworking in theprocurement, logistics or supply chain management. However, collected information was analyzed by applying reliability tests, correlation analysis and simple linear regression to furnish the outcome. Based upon Supply Chain Integration the findings of the analysis, it was determined that these five (5)under studied sections effictively improve the performance level of supply chain management.