Emergency Supply Chain Preparedness and Performance of Large Food and Beverage Manufacturing Firms in Nairobi, Kenya Amid Covid-19
Abstract
The study's purpose was to establish the influence of emergency supply chain preparedness on
performance of large food and beverage manufacturing firms in Nairobi, Kenya The study had
three specific objectives: to find out the extent of adoption of emergency supply chain
preparedness by the large food and beverage manufacturing firms in Nairobi, Kenya , to evaluate
the effect of COVID-19 pandemic measures on large food and beverage manufacturing firms in
Nairobi, Kenya and to establish the relationship between emergency supply chain preparedness
and performance of large food and beverage manufacturing firms in Nairobi, Kenya . The study
used descriptive research design and census was carried out on all the 46 large food and beverage
manufacturing firms in Nairobi, Kenya as the population was manageable. The study used primary
data which was acquired through questionnaires that were sent by electronic email by in form of
google forms. The findings indicate that supply chain visibility and supply chain collaboration
were adopted to a large extent whereas supply chain robustness, risk management culture and
creating redundancy were adopted to a moderate extent by the large food and beverage
manufacturers in Nairobi, Kenya. The manufacturers were negatively impacted by the COVID-19
measures set by the government especially lockdown, curfew hours and working from home as
employees were laid off and production rates also reduced. The outcome also reveals that supply
chain visibility, supply chain robustness, supply chain collaboration, risk management and culture
and creating redundancy all had a positive and substantial relationship with manufacturing firm’s
performance as noted by the p values of less than 0.05 and thus emergency supply chain
preparedness positively influences manufacturing firm’s performance in Nairobi. The study
recommends that managers of large food and beverage manufacturing firms must adopt emergency
supply chain preparedness practices if they are to enhance their performance as it has been noted
by the findings. The managers, stakeholders and decision can use the outcome of the study to
ascertain supply chain emergency preparedness practices that influences firm’s performance and
capitalize on them to be able to enhance the performance even further. Future research should
concentrate on the influence of emergency supply chain preparedness on firm’s performance of
small, medium and large manufacturing firms in Nairobi, and not limit to just food and beverage
manufacturing firms, to see if the outcome will corroborate or contradicts this study.
Publisher
University of Nairobi
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