The Influence of Information Technology Utilization (ITU) on Supply Chain Integration (SCI)

2012 ◽  
pp. 186-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thawatchai Jitpaiboon ◽  
Sushil Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Technology Implementation ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Supply Chain Integration ◽  
Top Management ◽  
Management Support ◽  
Integrated Supply Chain ◽  
The Impact

The key to competitiveness in most industries has moved beyond the traditionally confined single organization. In today’s global competitive business environment, competitiveness is heavily influenced by the ability of the multiple organizations in a supply chain to synchronize and integrate their business activities and processes. Supply chain integration, (SCI) which links the activities, functions, processes, and systems of a firm with its customers and suppliers, can reduce uncertainty, enhance responsiveness, reduce costs, and improve customer service. Empirical studies have explored SCI and reported that information technology (IT) is a key ingredient for the success of the integrated supply chain. While the research on SCI has been reported in OM literature, empirical studies that investigate the impact of different levels of IT utilization (ITU) – strategic, operational, and infrastructural - on SCI are not available. This research also explores the impact of top management support (TMS) on the relationship between ITU and SCI. Based on data collected from 220 manufacturing firms, this study indicates that ITU will have a positive impact on the success of an integrated supply chain when top management is personally involved in the technology implementation process.

The Influence of Information Technology Utilization (ITU) on Supply Chain Integration (SCI)

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 19-43
Author(s):  
Thawatchai Jitpaiboon ◽  
Sushil Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Supply Chain Integration ◽  
Top Management ◽  
Management Support ◽  
Integrated Supply Chain ◽  
The Impact

The key to competitiveness in most industries has moved beyond the traditionally confined single organization. In today’s global competitive business environment, competitiveness is heavily influenced by the ability of the multiple organizations in a supply chain to synchronize and integrate their business activities and processes. Supply chain integration, (SCI) which links the activities, functions, processes, and systems of a firm with its customers and suppliers, can reduce uncertainty, enhance responsiveness, reduce costs, and improve customer service. Empirical studies have explored SCI and reported that information technology (IT) is a key ingredient for the success of the integrated supply chain. While the research on SCI has been reported in OM literature, empirical studies that investigate the impact of different levels of IT utilization (ITU) – strategic, operational, and infrastructural - on SCI are not available. This research also explores the impact of top management support (TMS) on the relationship between ITU and SCI. Based on data collected from 220 manufacturing firms, this study indicates that ITU will have a positive impact on the success of an integrated supply chain when top management is personally involved in the technology implementation process.

scholarly journals Transformational leadership and employees' perception of supply chain integration and organizational performance: The case of textile industry in Vietnam

2021 ◽  
pp. 159-168
Author(s):  
Thi Van Anh Bui ◽  
Thi Thuy Hang Pham ◽  
Xuan Trang Phung ◽  
Cong Thanh Le ◽  
Ngoc Toan Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
Textile Industry ◽  
Organizational Innovation ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Supply Chain Integration ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

The objective of this article is to evaluate the impact of Transformational Leadership on Organizational Innovation, Supply chain Integration and Organizational Performance. Research was carried out on 562 Vietnamese textile and garment enterprises. We use Smart PLS 3.6 software for data analysis. The results show that Transformational Leadership had a positive impact on Organizational Innovation, Supply chain Integration and Organizational Performance. In addition, the Supply chain Integration plays a role as a complete mediate in the relationship between Organizational Innovation and Organizational Performance. Size has a statistically significant moderate role on the relationship between Organizational Innovation and Organizational Performance. Finally, the leader qualification has a statistically significant moderate role in the relationship between Transformational Leadership and Organizational Performance. From the above results, we recommend the leaders of Vietnamese textile and garment enterprises to improve leadership capacity, apply a transformational leadership style to improve organizational performance.

scholarly journals Information Technology Governance on Audit Technology Performance among Malaysian Public Sector Auditors

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
pp. 124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farida Veerankutty ◽  
Thurasamy Ramayah ◽  
Noor Ali
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Technology Implementation ◽  
It Governance ◽  
Management Support ◽  
Technology Governance ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Audit Technology ◽  
The Impact

The concept of Industry 4.0 has considerably altered the way organisations operate and has impacted every aspect of life. Furthermore, the fast-growing trend of information technology (IT) transformation in organisations and huge IT investment by Malaysian government have triggered the significance of IT risk and its related controls. Besides, technology-enabled auditing and IT-oriented audit procedures have become crucial when performing audit tasks in an electronic environment. Although many initiatives are being implemented to improve technology usage, audit technology use among auditors is still low and auditors are not attaining sufficient progress in the use of technology. This implies the current strategies and policies may not effectively support technology implementation. In the same vein, the under-utilisation of technologies was reported due to inadequate governance. Thus, this study intends to investigate the impact of IT governance on audit technology performance. IT governance is a mechanism to stimulate anticipated behavior in the use of technology among the employees of an organisation. Surveys using closed-ended questionnaires were distributed to approximately 309 Malaysia public sector auditors. The results show that IT governance mechanisms such as IT strategy and management support significantly influence the audit technology performance. IT governance does play a significant role in assuring the successful utilisation of audit technology.

scholarly journals The moderating role of lean operations between supply chain integration and operational performance in Saudi manufacturing organizations

2021 ◽  
pp. 169-178
Author(s):  
Jehad S. Bani Hani
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Supply Chain Integration ◽  
Operational Performance ◽  
Essential Information ◽  
Industrial Organizations ◽  
Lean Practices ◽  
Fundamental Reason ◽  
Lean Operations ◽  
The Impact

The fundamental reason for this study was to explore the impact of Supply Chain Integration on Operational Performance through the directing part of Lean Operations. The study essential information gathered from the example that contains 288 supervisors working in Saudi Industrial Organizations lied in the western locale, utilizing an all-around planned survey. This study coordinated to study how the supply chain integration, lean operations, and operational performance can impact each other in manufacturing associations. SEM model created and deliberately surveyed and tried. The key discoveries demonstrate that rehearsing supply chain integration cycles could bring about expanding the open door for manufacturing associations to accomplish operational performance through applying lean practices. Therefore, the connection between supply chain integration and operational performance, just as the connection between lean operations and operational performance, was positive, given these connections, it very well may be presumed that the lean operations (as a directing variable) can have a positive impact the connection between supply chain integration and operational performance. Particularly, the connection between supply chain integration and quality performance measures.

scholarly journals Impacts of Feminist Ethics and Gender on the Implementation of CSR Initiatives

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jintao Lu ◽  
Licheng Ren ◽  
Chong Zhang ◽  
Mengshang Liang ◽  
Nerijus Stasiulis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gender Difference ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Top Management ◽  
Feminist Ethics ◽  
Strategic Decisions ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Impact

Nowadays women often lead teams, hold high positions in top management, plan and make important strategic decisions in firms or groups. However, little attention in scientific literature has been paid to gender difference in implementing CSR practices of firms. Implementing CSR practices successfully in many cases depends on the gender difference of top management. The object of this study is the importance of ‘feminine gaze’ with respect to gender difference in implementing CSR in firms. This study aims at supplementing feminist ethical – and in part, epistemological – concerns with empirical studies considering the role of women in the top management of firms, then the impact of gender on implementation of CSR initiatives was analysed, and the main drivers linked to gender for the implementation of CSR initiatives were assessed in this study based on the comprehensive literature review. The study confirmed the positive impact of woman representation on the development of CSR initiatives in the firm. The number of women in BOD and employee positions from all stakeholders including customers’ perspectives have positive impacts on the penetration of CSR initiatives, and can be considered as an important driver of CSR in the firms.

scholarly journals Interplant coordination, supply chain integration, and operational performance of a plant in a manufacturing network: a mediation analysis

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 550-568 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Cheng ◽  
Atanu Chaudhuri ◽  
Sami Farooq
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Supply Chain Integration ◽  
Operational Performance ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Internal Integration ◽  
Manufacturing Network ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationships at the level of plant in a manufacturing network, labelled as networked plant in the paper, between inter-plant coordination and operational performance, supply chain integration (SCI) and operational performance and inter-plant coordination and SCI. Design/methodology/approach This paper is developed based on the data obtained from the sixth version of International Manufacturing Strategy Survey (IMSS VI). Specifically, this paper uses a subset of the IMSS VI data set from the 606 plants that identified themselves as one of the plants in a manufacturing network. Findings This paper finds that external integration is significantly related to operational performance of networked plant, whereas internal integration is not. As an enabler for external integration, the influence of internal integration on operational performance of networked plant is mediated by external integration. This paper also provides evidence to the purported positive impact of internal integration on inter-plant coordination, as well as the positive impact of inter-plant coordination on external integration. It further suggests that inter-plant coordination can influence operational performance of networked plant through external integration and also mediate the relationship from internal integration to performance through external integration. Originality/value This paper contributes to the SCI literature and extends the understanding of the impact of SCI on the operational performance by selecting networked plant as a unit of analysis. Besides, this paper distinguishes inter-plant coordination from SCI and investigates the relationship between inter-plant coordination, SCI, and operational performance for the first time.

scholarly journals The impact TQM System on Supply Chain Performance through Supply Chain Integration and Employee Satisfaction

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-17
Author(s):  
Ivan Kristianto ◽  
Zeplin Jiwa Husada Tarigan
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Employee Satisfaction ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Supply Chain Integration ◽  
Supply Chain Performance ◽  
Documentation System ◽  
Good Communication ◽  
The Impact

Indonesia has entered the Southeast Asian free trade market or better known as ASEAN Economic Community (AEC). The economic growth and the increasing number of companies annually will bring some impacts on the competitions for many companies in Indonesia, so they have find their competitive advantage. The biggest competitive advantage of Indonesia is in the primary sector companies which is producing consumer goods from natural raw materials and semi-finished goods.  To win the competition, the primary sectors require product standards as the company output by implementing TQM, which usually adopts ISO as the main requirement for exporting their products. This is also the criteria for the research samples. The questionnaires are distributed to 100 companies that have over 100 employees, and the returned questionnaires are 64, with four incomplete questionnaires, making the response rate of 60%. The data analysis is using PLS and proves that all hypotheses are accepted. First, TQM implementation has a positive and significant impact on supply chain integration. Second, TQM implementations in companies are able to create a proper documentation system for each department to facilitate good communication among departments. Third, TQM implementation has a positive impact on supply chain performance and employee satisfaction. Fourth, supply chain integration has a positive impact on employee satisfaction and supply chain performance. Employee satisfaction has a positive effect on supply chain performance. The overall impact of TQM implementation on supply chain performance is 0.4680. TQM implementation brings a positive impact on supply chain integration and supply chain performance, thus increases the total impact of supply chain performance

Leveraging the impact of supply chain integration through information technology

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 510-530 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evelyne Vanpoucke ◽  
Ann Vereecke ◽  
Steve Muylle
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Supply Chain Integration ◽  
Critical Element ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Improved Performance ◽  
Operational Integration ◽  
The Impact

Purpose Companies increasingly exchange information to work more closely with supply chain partners. Although information exchange is a critical element for up- and downstream partnerships, the purpose of this paper is to indicate that it is not a guarantee for improved performance and should be combined with other integration tactics to fully capture its benefits. Design/methodology/approach Using a global sample in the industrial sector, a moderated mediation framework for both upstream and downstream integration, which links integration tactics to operational performance, was empirically tested. Findings This research shows that operational integration is indispensable to capture the benefits of information exchange. In addition, it points out that the impact of the use of information technology (IT) is stronger for upstream integration. Practical implications While the data show that the use of IT significantly improves the delivery performance in the supply chain, it also signals to managers how and when to invest in supply chain integration tactics. Originality/value This paper contributes to a better understanding of the supply chain integration-performance link, by clarifying some of the inconsistencies in previous literature and by simultaneously analyzing upstream and downstream implications.

scholarly journals The Impact of Top Management’s Support on the Collaboration of Green Supply Chain Participants and Environmental Performance

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (21) ◽  
pp. 9090
Author(s):  
Jungeun Lee ◽  
Hye-Young Joo
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Green Supply Chain ◽  
Top Management ◽  
Direct Impact ◽  
Theoretical Mechanism ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

The purpose of this study is to determine whether the support of top management significantly improves the level of environmental collaboration with participating companies upstream and downstream of the green supply chain and the impact on environmental performance. The results of the empirical analysis of 301 companies that are establishing a green supply chain are as follows. First, top management’s support positively affects the level of collaboration with suppliers and customers in the green supply chain. Secondly, support from top management has a direct impact on the company’s environmental performance. Thirdly, the environmental collaboration of participating companies partially plays a mediation role between the support of top management and the environmental performance. This study has significance in that it analyzes the theoretical mechanism of top management’s support for environmental collaboration with participating companies, leading to environmental performance, and draws implications.

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