INCREASING EFFICIENCY IN THE SUPPLY CHAIN OF TOWELLERS LIMITED

Abstract

Purpose - The sole purpose of this research is to coyer all the things about increasing efficiency in supply chain management. Methodology & Design - This research was of quantitative in nature and data was collected through questionnaires. The sample size was set to 250 and data was collected from entire sample for analysis. Different statistics tests were used in this study which includes Reliability test, Regression tests, and Correlation. Findings - This study result have showed that there is a positive relationship between increasing efficiency and industrial performance. Limitations & Recommendations: This study only relies on a quantitative research methodology based on the collection and analysis of hard numerical evidence. In future studies there is a need to follow this type of methodology for all constructs and then gather qualitative data to explore their relationships to not only validate the results from this research, but also expand its context by obtaining more in-depth insights on firms’ attitudes, thoughts, and actions, specially related to their SCM practices and the relationships with the constructs studied. Second, in this research, a limited number of SCM practices were considered. These SCM practices were selected, based on the literature review and the input from practicing managers as those that would be the most important for the specific case of manufacturing firms.