Abstract:
Supply chain integration represents the extent based on which a producer strategically cooperates with its supply chain partners and collaboratively manages inter-organizational and intra-organizational processes. The current research has been conducted to examine the effect of supply chain integration on operational efficiency and value creation. In order to do this, Annan’s et al. (2016) standard questionnaire was used to measure the research variables. The research method was descriptive correlational. In order to answer the research questions and investigate the research hypotheses, structural equations and path analysis by means of the partial least squares method (PLS) were used with Smart-PLS software. The obtained results indicate that there is a positive and significant relationship between the inter-firm networking resources and dysfunctional competitions on the supply-chain integration. The results also approve the positive and significant effect of supply chain integration on customer value creation and the company’s operational efficiency.
Machine summary:
Supply chain management is composed of a series of approaches and methods to integrate suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, and customers effectively to improve the individual companies and the entire supply chain long-term performance in a coherent and high-performance business model (Chopra and Meindl, 2001).
Heydari Abrandabad (2017) conducted a research entitled "Offering a Dynamic-System-Based Approach to Assess the Effectiveness of Integrated Supply Chain Management: A Case Study of the XYZ Chain Store in Iran".
Jabbari (2017) has done a research entitled "Identifying and Rating the Factors Affecting the Implementation of Sustainable Supply Chain Management by means of the Fuzzy Delphi Integrated Approach and Fuzzy Interpretative Structural Modeling (Case Study: Iran Khodro Company").
The results of this research indicate that in Japanese companies, mutual relationship of the supply chain operational capability and competitiveness have a direct impact on the firm's performance, and this mutual relationship is shaped after the establishment of supply chain integrity.
The results of the research indicate that supply chain integration has a direct and positive effect on the company's performance.
Inter-firm networking Operational performance Dysfunctional competitions Supply Chain Integration: Internal integration Customer integration Supplier integration alue Creation f Operational efficiency Figure 1: The conceptual model (Annan et al.
Figure 4: Modified research model in the standard coefficients estimating mode By means of pls software, the factor loads of the measurement model for inter-firm networking resource, dysfunctional (unhealthy) competition, supply chain integration, customer value creation, and operational efficiency were measured.