Author(s)

Mubanga Josephine Chileshe¹, Jackson Phiri²

¹Graduate School of Business, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia.
²Department of Computer Sciences, School of Natural Sciences, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia.

The Agro-sector in Zambia has evolved over the years contributing about twenty percent (20%) of the gross domestic product (GDP). Today organizations encounter with environment of global competition and for prosperity in this environment, we need radical changes and creativity in work. Supply chain management (SCM) is a thunderstruck organization with higher and lower relationship that is involved in process and activities and like presentation product and services to final customers to create value. It is important in organization. In this research the aim was checking the influence that the adoption of supply chain management practices has in business performance through competitive priorities. The concept of SCM has received increasing attention from academicians, consultants, and business managers alike (Tan, Lyman, & Wisner, 2002). Various theories have offered insights on specific aspects or perspectives of SCM, such as industrial organization and associated transaction cost analysis, resource-based and resource-dependency theory, competitive strategy, and social-political perspective (Stern & Reve, 1980). However, despite the increased attention paid to SCM, the literature has not been able to offer much by way of guidance to help the practice of SCM. This has been attributed to the interdisciplinary origin of SCM, the conceptual confusion, and the evolutionary nature of SCM concept. Much of the current theoretical/empirical research in SCM focuses on only the upstream or downstream side of the supply chain, or certain aspects/perspectives of SCM. This identified a research gap to be filled by looking at both the downstream and upstream sides of the supply chain and linking such activities to both competitive advantage and organizational performance. The target population was Small and Medium Agro-dealers in Lusaka with a calculated sample size of 151. Regression Analysis was used to answer the hypothesis. Research findings indicate that application of supply chain management influences performance according to competitive priorities.

Supply Chain Management, Performance, Competitive Advantage

Chileshe, M. and Phiri, J. (2022) The Impact of Supply Chain Management Practices on Performance of Small and Medium Enterprises in Developing Countries: A Case of Agro-Dealers in Zambia. Open Journal of Business and Management, 10, 591-605. doi: 10.4236/ojbm.2022.102033.