Intermix of Realities between Supply Chain Management 4.0 and Sustainability among Nigerian Quoted Logistics Companies (Published)
Keywords: Cloud Computing, Logistics, Nigeria, Supply chain management 4.0, Sustainability, big data analytics
The Effect of Sustainable Supply Chain Management On Firm Innovative Performance: A Study of Manufacturing Firms in Nigeria (Published)
The study sought to establish the effect of sustainable supply chain management practices on innovative performance of manufacturing firms in Nigeria. The precise goals were to evaluate how Nigerian manufacturing companies performed in terms of innovation in relation to economic, environmental, and social dimension of sustainability. The Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) Theory and the Stakeholder Theory were both used in the study. The study employed a descriptive survey approach, with three Nigerian manufacturing companies as the target population. The study used a purposeful sampling strategy, and the researcher decided that a sample size of 120 was manageable. A pilot study was conducted to evaluate the validity and reliability of the research instrument prior to the collection of data. A 91% response rate was obtained, and the results were displayed in tables using percentages. The analysis showed that sustainable supply chain management practices had a positive and significant impact on the innovative performance of manufacturing companies in Nigeria, demonstrating that economic, environmental, and social dimension of sustainability all had a significant positive impact on this performance. The research consequently advises manufacturing companies to engage in more sustainable operations so as boost their competitive edge.
Keywords: Innovative Performance, Supply Chain, Sustainability, economic dimension, environmental dimension, social dimension
Effect of Sustainable Supply Chain Management on Consumers’ Purchase Intension (Published)
This study examined the effect of sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) on consumers’ purchase intension. Specifically, the study determine the extent to which SSCM practice that are socially and environmental sustainable create self brand connection compare to SSCM practices which are not socially or environmental sustainable. It also investigates the extent to which supply chain management practices that are socially and environmental sustainable reduces dissonance compare to supply chain management practices that are not socially or environmentally sustainable. The study adopted quantitative research approach while the population consists of staff and major dealers of Dangote cement PLC who have made official purchase for an upward of five years. Data used for the study was collected using structured questionnaire while data analysis was done using linear regression. The study reveals that sustainable supply chain management practices is capable of connecting customer with the product of firms. The coefficient of determination (R2) obtain reveal that 91.70% of customer loyalty was as a result of sustainable supply chain management. It was recommended that firms that are eco-friendly should educate members of the public by indicating it on their labels in order to adequately distinguish it from those firms that are not environmentally friendly. This will clear any negative feeling from customer which may increase dissonance in them.
Keywords: Cognitive Dissonance., Purchases Intension, Supply Chain, Sustainability
Meta-Analysis on Sustainable Supply Chain Management: An Analytical Approach (Published)
Sustainability in Supply Chain is a key area in business that great attention is being looked into by academicians and practioners in recent times. The literature of sustainable supply chain management is still scant and several literature review has been conducted to investigate the state of the art knowledge of sustainable supply chain management. The field of text mining is rapidly evolving but little has been done on the techniques used in the study of sustainable supply chain management. The major objective of the study was to conduct a meta–analysis of the literature review studies in the area of sustainable supply chain management. Specifically the objective of the study was to find out the state of the art knowledge in sustainable supply chain and to use text mining techniques to derive the most frequent used words in keywords, abstracts and conclusion of the literature review papers on sustainable supply chain management. Major trends and current research topics in sustainable supply chain management were identified. A total of 57 papers were identified, the process was iterative involving many hours of reading, additional collection of literature, synthesis and refinement. The leading peer reviewed journals, universities, and authors were identified as well. The study adopted meta-analysis and content based qualitative approach of published literature for assessing the appropriateness of the framework presented in the research articles. More specifically the alignment between keywords, abstract and conclusion was studied. Finally, suggestion and recommendation was provided for the research agenda in the field of sustainable supply chain management
Keywords: Supply Chain, Sustainability, Sustainable Supply Chain, Text Mining
Cattle Traceability-A Threat to Sustainable Supply Of Beef To EU: A Botswana Meat Commission (Published)
A trend of bad corporate governance characterised by corruption, mismanagement, non-accountability and unethical practices in state owned corporations is disconcerting. The Botswana Meat Commission (BMC) saga epitomize the trouble not only with the countrys public corporation but also with the nation’s agricultural sector, in particular the beef industry. The BMC has been in the news for the wrong reasons and it appears that the crisis continues unabated with profound and deleterious impact on the economy, particularly the cattle industry. BMC has been making loses, hit by exports beef quality issues, envisaged privatization and monopoly issues and feedlots problems inter alia. The troubling problem roots from the traceability of cattle slaughtered by the abattoir. Millions of BWP has been spent on the bolus programme to track and trace cattle but it failed to meet its expectations. The BMC lost on numerous occasions its market to the European Union as a result of untracebility of cattle sold to the EU market. Some of the reasons are found to be internal issues of procurement process, inspections by the DVS which is flawed and mismanagement within the institution. This research relied on secondary data collected from 2008 through to 2012. This data is analysed and some key enablers were suggested and a traceability framework is proposed to eliminate and track anomalies in the supply chain.
Keywords: Beef, Botswana Meat Commission, Sustainability, Traceability