Recently, many researches have regarded agility as a notion of an expeditious response in the change of global market environment, and the agility has acted on the performance of business organizations. Literature reviews reveals various factors that ...
Recently, many researches have regarded agility as a notion of an expeditious response in the change of global market environment, and the agility has acted on the performance of business organizations. Literature reviews reveals various factors that could affect the agility, but there is a general agreement in view of the influence of Supply Chain Management. Therefore, this study explores relevance between supply chain agility and performance and introduces some core variables: demand response, customer responsiveness, joint planning and visibility which were showed by many previous researches. Moreover, this study considers intra-organizational and inter-organizational characteristics as a variable of business organizations and makes an analysis of the relations between these characteristics and supply chain agility.
Having researched, this study shows that demand response and customer responsiveness in supply chain agility variables have meaning effect to non-financial performances(lead time reduction and customer satisfaction) and financial performances(return on investment and cash flow). However, Joint planning and visibility as supply chain agility variables have not affected to financial and non-financial performances.
On the other hand, market orientation and Top management commitment to supply chain as intra-organizational characteristics have positive effect on demand response of supply chain agility. Dependence on customer firm and information sharing as inter-organizational characteristics also influenced on demand response of supply chain agility. Lastly, the result finds that trust in customer firm as inter-organizational characteristics has left its mark on demand response of supply chain agility.
This study diagnoses that the agility is important for SCM performance in global competitive market. Inter-organizational and intra-organizational characteristics are also considered as an essential factor for supply chain agility and performance. In conclusion, the study presents that the business organizations have to consider the supply chain agility and organizational characteristics for advanced SCM performance.