scholarly journals Study on the Relations of Supply Chain Digitization, Flexibility and Sustainable Development—A Moderated Multiple Mediation Model

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (18) ◽  
pp. 10043
Author(s):  
Qian Zhou ◽  
Shuxiang Wang

In the face of an external environment featuring a high level of risk, multiple changes, and high uncertainty, the supply chain’s emergency replenishment, collaborative management, regulation of organic commodity, and low-cost rapid response will promote its’ sustainable growth and development, which is necessary for today’s economic development. The digitization and flexibility of the supply chain are of great value in obtaining the sustainable development of the supply chain. When dealing with an uncertain environment and market risk, current supply chain flexibility not only functions through its internal organizational flexibility, but also through collaborative creation and an extended supply chain network which will proactively form a replenishment supply sub-chain driven by the need for change responsiveness. This article constructs an associated model consisting of digitization, supply chain flexibility, and sustainability using an empirical analysis method to explore the implicit correlation of these factors. The analysis results of the mediating effect model show that both digitization and flexibility have significant positive effects on the sustainable development of the supply chain. Collaborative knowledge creation and supply chain flexibility play multiple mediating roles while market uncertainty positively moderates the impact of supply chain flexibility on supply chain sustainable development.

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 5641-5655
Author(s):  
Ji Feng ◽  
Cheng Guiqing ◽  
Jia Xuedi ◽  
Luo Qubo ◽  
Wu Fan

Based on 234 survey data of 35 pilot demonstration enterprises in intelligent manufacturing, this paper tested the mediating role of supply chain flexibility in the process of big data capability affecting enterprise performance. The empirical results show that the foundation capability, application capability, and development capability all have a significant positive impact on enterprises performance. Big data foundation capability has a significant positive effect on the supply chain flexibility in terms of product flexibility, logistics flexibility and production flexibility, and it has no significant effect on purchasing flexibility and information flexibility. Both big data application capability and big data development capability have a positive effect on supply chain flexibility. In addition to purchasing flexibility, the other dimensions of supply chain flexibility and supply chain flexibility comprehensive factors all have a mediating effect on the relationship between big data capabilities and firm performance. The conclusions of this study have a positive enlightenment role for enterprises to develop big data capabilities and create a flexible supply chain to meet the needs of the market and customers.


2017 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olesea Sirbu ◽  
Rodica Crudu ◽  
Augustin Ignatov

Abstract In the present conditions when the demographic pressure upon the environment is higher than ever, the humanity faces the challenge of sustainability. Namely the sustainability of human activities is important and nothing can assure it better than sustainable energy supplies. The European Union is the leading global power in terms of adjusting its policies to increase innovation to assure a sustainable growth of its energy sector as a key to an advanced economic system. The present research focuses on the impact of European Union policies on the sustainable development of its energy sector by analyzing quantitatively and qualitatively various indicators intended to offer a throughout insight. The results obtained focus on the identification of the main innovation paradigms; the description of the main modern environmental challenges, especially in the energy domain; the determination of the relation between innovation and energy sustainability, and its analysis at the level of European Union.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feng Hu ◽  
Xun Xi ◽  
Rongjian Yu ◽  
Rong Xiang ◽  
Yueyue Zhang ◽  
...  

Evaluating the price policy of raw milk is of great significance to the sustainable development of an industry supply chain. In this context, our study used the multi-period difference-in-difference method to systematically examine the impact of the policy implementation on product price and profit distribution in the supply chain. The results showed the following: (1) the price of raw milk in the implementation area of the price support policy is 13.54% higher than that of the unimplemented area; (2) the effect of price increase in the western region (15.5%) is higher than that in the eastern region (13%), and the central region (10.73%); (3) furthermore, the purchase price guidance policy of raw milk drives price increase or price suppression in the links of the supply chain to promote a balanced distribution of profits among the participants in the chain. These conclusions all have good stability and have reference significance for further improving and adjusting the price support policy of raw milk to realize the sustainable development of the Chinese dairy industry. This will enhance the production confidence of Chinese raw milk producers and improve Chinese consumers’ expectations and consumer psychology regarding domestic dairy products.


2022 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Itang, H.S. Sufyati ◽  
Asep Dadan Suganda ◽  
Shafenti Shafenti ◽  
Mochammad Fahlevi

The purpose of this research is to better understand the impact of supply chain management (SCM) and flexibility on firm performance, as well as the role of competitive advantage in mediating the model in Indonesian agriculture companies. Companies must apply supply chain management and supply chain flexibility (SCF) to boost industrial competitiveness, which impacts firm performance. To ensure that supply chain management supports the company's strategy, companies must evaluate supply chain concerns. From the literature search, researchers have not found any published studies or articles on SCM and SCF in their influence on firm performance through competitive advantage, specifically for corn companies in Indonesia. The population in this study includes agriculture companies in Indonesia. Sampling was carried out using probability sampling technique, the total population of 200 obtained a sample size of 133.333 which can be rounded up to 134 research samples. The inferential statistical method used in the data analysis of this study was the Partial Least Square Version 3 program. The study found that SCM influenced firm performance and SCF had a direct influence on firm performance. However, competitive advantage variable failed in being a mediator in SCM and SCF on firm performance.


2018 ◽  
pp. 75-85
Author(s):  
Svitlana ZHUKEVYCH ◽  
Vіktoriia ROZHELIUK

Introduction. The modernization of the financial mechanism, the main purpose of which is to increase the efficiency of the use of financial resources at different levels of management and optimize management of budget funds is an important element of implementing the concept of sustainable development in Ukraine. At the same time, today the most urgent issue is the development of such a financial mechanism of the state, business entities that will stimulate the formation favorable conditions for meeting the needs of present and future generations. The purposeof the article is to highlight the issues related to the impact of financial sustainability on the sustainable development of enterprises in the framework of the implementation of the state strategy, which determines its relevance. Methods. The basis is based on scientific methods based on dialectical know ledge and objective laws of the economy. Results. Sustainable development of an enterprise is a gradual change or maintenance of the appropriate level of all indicators of enterprise sustainability, capable of resisting negative environmental factors, using internal potential, while preserving the integrity and basic properties. That is, it can be argued that sustainable development of the enterprise is provided on the basis of taking into account the influence of the external environment and improving the strategic management within the enterprise in order to increase its efficiency and continuous development. For the enterprises sustainable development means adopting business strategies and endorsing activities that meet market needs and stakeholders at the same time protecting, sustaining and strengthening the human and natural resources that will be needed in the future. The development of an effective management structure for the sustainable development of the business entity requires the integration of all functional components - business planning, organization, accounting, analysis, control. The calculation of permissible and economically justified rates of growth of an enterprise is an important stage in the diagnosis of the financial component of a sustainable development of an enterprise. Conclusions. The financial and economic stability is the condition of life and the basis of stability of an enterprise in a market economy. It is determined, that only a systematic approach that considers an enterprise as a social and economic system functioning in the external environment will prevent the negative trends of the present. The growth factors are the indicators in the management of sustainable growth: the coefficient of internal growth, which shows the ability of enterprises to increase the negotiable and non-current assets at the expense of domestic sources of funding and the coefficient of sustainable growth, which characterizes the growthof equity capital of the enterprise.


2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Manuel Maqueira ◽  
Luciano Romualdo Novais ◽  
Sebastian Bruque

Purpose This paper aims to analyze the mediating role of Supply Chain Flexibility on the interrelationships binding Lean Production implementation, Mass Personalization and business performance. Design/methodology/approach A random sample of 260 companies obtained from a population of 1,717 Spanish companies that occupy an intermediate position in the supply chain has been used to test the proposed hypothetical framework. Telephone surveys using a computerized system have been used to collect data, obtaining a response rate of 15.6 and a structural equation model has been designed to test the six proposed hypotheses. Findings Companies initially implement Lean Production to optimize Mass Personalization processes and improve business performance. However, in the presence of Supply Chain Flexibility, Lean Production implementation no longer has a direct impact on Mass Personalization and business performance, but it does have an indirect impact through the flexibility it achieves (shown as a total mediating path). Therefore, companies should implement Lean Production to achieve flexibility and thus optimize the Mass Personalization processes and obtain better performance. Originality/value Academics and business managers may have supporting evidence on the role played by the total mediating effect of Supply Chain Flexibility on the relationship between Lean Production, Mass Personalization and business performance. A better knowledge of these management resources and their relationship could affect the way researchers and practitioners approach them, becoming more aware of the important role of the supply chain in competitiveness.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (17) ◽  
pp. 9906
Author(s):  
Jing Li ◽  
Da Yan

Green supply chain management (GSCM) is an important management means for enterprises to achieve sustainable development and green transformation. However, the intrinsic mechanism by which GSCM impacts the sustainable development performance (SDP) of enterprises remains a theoretical “black box”. Based on the Porter’s hypothesis, this study constructs a moderated mediation model from the theoretical perspective of green innovation and signal transmission to explore this intrinsic mechanism. Then, this study analyzes data from China’s Shanghai and Shenzhen A-share listed companies from 2015 to 2020 to conduct an empirical analysis to test the model. The results show that GSCM has a significantly positive effect on SDP. The mediating effect of green innovation and the moderating effect of green subsidies are significant. The results remain valid after a series of endogeneity and robustness tests.


Today’s business under competitive environment, the organizations must be integrated and maintain their business deliberately within the supply chain network. With the intention to indentified the impact of supply chain strategy (SCS) and supply chain flexibility (SCF)) on performance in a sample of the automobile industry and investigate the direct influence of dimensions of SCS and SCF on performance. With the help of quantitative research, a survey was conducted. Statistical tools were used to investigate the information. The structural equation path modeling approach is used to assess the relationship of the hypothesis. The findings analyzed that SCS and SCF positively influence performance. The result finds an encouraging relationship between SCS and SCF with supply chain performance (SCP) and the result indicate that effective and efficient supply chain flexibility has a positive impact on the firm’s performance. The result also shows that supply chain strategies are related to performance.


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