Impact of Supply Chain Management Practices On Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)

Abstract

This research aimed to identify the impact of supply chain management (SCM) practices on small and medium enterprises (SMEs) of Pakistan. During the past few researches, just the benefits of SCM practices on large scale organizations were discussed, but the impact of SCM practices on the SMEs was neglected due to certain reasons. The primary cause behind this negligence was the difference in infrastructure and operational level between large scale organizations and SMEs.This study has considered strategic supplier partnership, information sharing and information quality as independent variables. Whereas, supply chain management performance has been considered as the dependent variable in this study. However, this study has finalized SMEs of Pakistan to testify the impact on variables mentioned above. The major emphasis in this study has been on assessing the impact of strategic supplier partnership, information sharing and information quality (independent variables) on supply chain management performance (dependent variable) in SMEs of Pakistan. To find the impact, a survey has been conducted through an adopted structured questionnaire regarding this literature, in which supply chain members associated with SMEs of Pakistan, have been requested to share their experiences by filling the questionnaires. Then, to identify the results on data gathered from the respondents, statistical instruments have been used. Some of the statistical instruments used in this study includes descriptive frequencies, reliability, correlation, regression, etc. Results derived through statistical instruments have shown that there exists a significant positive impact of strategic supplier partnership, information sharing and information quality (independent variables) on supply chain management performance (dependent variable) in SMEs of Pakistan. Conclusively, it can be said that supply chain management practices positively impact supply chain management performance in SMEs of Pakistan