The Effects Of Supply Chain Management On Organizational Performance

ABSTRACT The study was on the effects of supply chain management on organizational performance procuring organizations around Kampala district were used as case study. The general objective of the effects of supply chain management in organizational performance. The research problem was broken down into specific objectives. These included establishing different trends towards supply chain management and different approaches to supply chain measurement to establish different reasons why organizational performance should be measured, and to establish the relationship between supply chain 111anage111ent and organizational performance. The study e111ployed qua I itative research 111ethod through which detailed and speci fie infor111ation was obtained fro111 key respondents as pri111ary data. Respondents came fro111 ol"Tices 01· the procurement managers and officers working within the different procuring organizations around Kampala as well as KIU students. The study revealed that supply chain management has a great influence on organizational perfor111ance in terms of its efficiency and effectiveness in identifying, assessing and enforcing costs and long lead ti111e. The study further revealed that supply chain management has co-ordinate the manufacturing of logistic and 111aterial 111anage111ent function a cross organizations, scholars have come to a co111mon view on the application of dilTerent approaches of supply chain measurement in organizations such as Bailey ( I 998) and Lyson ( 1998) argued that manage111ent by objectives, management audit, co111parntive approach and accounting approaches used to 111easure supply chain 111anage111ent. This ensures value for 111oney. The research showed that organization with better supply chain has better co111petitive edge than others with weak ones. The researcher recommended that organizations should set up shorter supply chain so as to improve on their supply chain management and increase organizational performance: This further achieved through setting up procurement department on each and every organizational structure that will execute the functions of supply chain effectively as well as planning for its smooth operation