Practices of Supply Chain Management and Organizational Performance of Pharmaceutical Sector of Karachi, Pakistan.

Abstract

Implementation of SCM practice helps to improve the existing supply chain area of an industry. The main focus ofthe research is to examine the influence of SC practices which are (i.e. close relationship with customers (CRC), strategic supplier partnership (SSP), level of information sharing (LIS) and postponement (PP)) on the firms performance. So the research define the underlying dimensions of SCM practices on organizational performance with special emphasize on pharma sector of Karachi, Pakistan. The population size ofthe 12 pharmaceutical companies consists of 1500 workers. Moreover, minimum sample size which is needed for this study is 306 (Ume Sekran). Also convenient sampling has been done for the study. This research is quantitative and primary data were used. Adopted questionnaire is used as research instrument. Also descriptive statistics (i.e. mean, median, mode, standard deviation) and regression analysis were used to examine the influence of SCM performs on performance of an organization. Furthermore, it is observed that there is a fruitful impact of practices of SC (i.e. CRC, SSP, LIS, and PP) on performance of pharmaceutical firms. Consequently, limitation ofthis research is that, it is only limited to pharma sectors which the are located in Karachi, Pakistan only. So that it is suggested that additional investigation be carried out on the organizations which are not located in Karachi, Pakistan and as well can firms which are not a manufacturing enterprises (i.e. service and research can be performs on merchandising companies). Moreover, it is also suggested that forthcoming study can be enlarge on the area of SC practices by seeing farther scopes and likewise pursue to utilize numerous respondents in order to improve the findings.