The Factors Impacting the Success of Supply Chain Management in the Construction Industry of Pakistan

Abstract

Purpose: Present study is conducted to investigate the impact of top management commitment on supply chain responsiveness with mediating role of organizational factors, mutual understanding, and flow of information, relationship and decision making.

Design/Methodology/Approach: A sample of 120 respondents is collected from various construction projects. In survey process adopted questionnaire is used to investigate the hypotheses. The study used descriptive statistics, structural equation modeling, factor analysis, reliability analysis, and correlation analysis.

Findings: Based on SEM and CFA it is supported that responsiveness of supply chain is directly and significantly affected by top management commitment and indirectly affected by mediators including information sharing and mutual trust. Yet results did not support indirect effect of organizational factors and relationship & decision making. Results of the study implies that the effectiveness of supply chain could be quantified and adopted by industry professionals for comparing the effectiveness of SCM for a bench marking purpose.