An Empirical investigation on the impact of supply effort management and supplier selection on business performance using SEM approach

Abstract

The basic theme of the research is that “many organizations attempt several efforts to managing the supply chain. Such effort to manage the supply chain paves the way for an effective and positive impact on various practices of supplier selection and enhances the organizational  performance. The application of such efforts to manage the supply chain and application of various management practices to enhance the system of supplier selection leads to augmentation in the overall business performanceâ€. The foremost initiative of this research paper is to empirically prove the proposed theme. A sample of 358 manufacturing and business units in auto, steel and engineering industries were taken  for study. The factors that influenced the supply effort management, supplier selection and organizational performance were appropriately considered and incorporated in the model with due consideration of effective validation and reliability. The proposed model was tested with structural equation model (SEM) approach and the results proved that the proposed model has consistency and reflects the real world practices that is to say the efforts to manage the supply chain and the factors  influencing the supplier selection augments the overall performance of the organization.