Shivam Gupta

Dr. A.C. Shukla

Abstract

The supply chain (SC) members are dependent on each other for resources and information and to manage these dependencies, the entities must work together to achieve supply chain coordination. The purpose of this paper is to provide a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the enablers to successful coordination in supply chains. The research design is divided into three phases; first, the enablers were identified through an extensive literature review; second, a questionnaire based survey was conducted among 11 organizations in a limited dyadic supply chain, where the focal company, its customers, and its suppliers were taken into consideration and finally, some statistical tests such as reliability analysis, correlation analysis, and descriptive statistics have been conducted. Moreover, the factors are also analyzed by categorizing the surveyed organizations into two classes i.e. according to industry's annual turnover and according to type of industry. Overall it is observed that the 'committed top management' is emerged as the major factor among all 11 enablers to SC coordination. This study provides new insight into understanding the factors of coordination to researchers and practitioners specially in Indian context.

Keywords- India, Enablers, Inter-organizational coordination, Supply chain management, Statistical analysis