The Effect of Organizational Culture on Supply Chain Management

Abstract

Supply chain management is one of the most important fields of interest in this modern era as it connects people with people and works as the base of all businesses no matter how small or big it is. This research based project aimed to study how organizational culture can affect the performance characteristics of a certain supply chain management. In order to achieve this aim, a set of objectives have been created. The objectives included creating a literature review with a detailed description of the terminologies involved in supply chain management and the significance of different cultural dimensions in different types of supply chain management. The literature review was created through reviewing past publications which studied the topics at hand. After completing the literature review, a set of methodologies have been outlined which could be an effective method to analyze the effect of cultural significance in supply chain management. Upon completing the methodology, a set of research questions have been created in the form of a questionnaire and a company was selected for detailed study. The company selected depended on various criterion and mainly needed a reform in its supply chain management system. After that, supplier organizations within the company have been identified and 2 companies performing best and 2 performing worst in terms of supply chain management have been selected. The questionnaire has been distributed to the employees of the 5 companies and the results generated were discussed with suggestions for improvement. The research proposition was evaluated according to the results generated from the questionnaires.