The relationship of strategic purchasing, reverse logistics, manufacturing strategy, supply chain management practice and firm performance: An empirical study

• Main Author: Chiu, Anthony S.F.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2005
• Subjects: Supply chain management; Manufacturing processes; Strategic planning; Industrial Engineering; Operations and Supply Chain Management
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/13125
• Institution: De La Salle University

Purpose-This paper analyses the relationship among strategic purchasing, reverse logistics, manufacturing strategy, supply chain management practices and firm performance.Design/Methodology-Causality study. This framework is then tested on a sample of seventy firms at electronic manufacturing industry in Taiwan. The methods were through descriptive analysis, Factor analysis, reliability test and multiple regression analysis with collinearity diagnostic to identify the relationship among the variables.Finding-The results show significant relationships in the framework. They support the arguments found in the literatures that reverse logistics, strategic purchasing, manufacturing strategy and supply chain management have significant positively related to firm performance. The direct and indirect impact coefficients were estimated. Implications of the findings are discussed.Originality/value-identified the operations model of bi-direction supply chain management practice in Taiwan electronic industry. And casual explain on the relationship between dependent and independent variables.