Supply Chain Integration and Efficiency of Large Manufacturing Firms in Mogadishu, Somalia

Abstract

The study's goal was to see how supply chain integration affected the supply chain efficiency of large manufacturing firms in Mogadishu, Somalia. The study had three specific objectives: to determine supply chain integration activities of the large manufacturing firms in Mogadishu, Somalia, to evaluate the extent to which large manufacturing firms in Mogadishu, Somalia have adopted Supply Chain Integration and to ascertain the correlation between Supply Chain Integration and Supply Chain Efficiency of Large Manufacturing Firms in Mogadishu, Somalia. The study used descriptive research design, with all Large Manufacturing Firms listed by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry in Mogadishu as the study's population. Census was carried out on all the 33 large manufacturing firms in Mogadishu, Somalia. The study used primary data drafted by questionnaires which were administered through electronic email by use of google forms. The findings indicate that Large Manufacturing Firms in Mogadishu, Somalia, adopted Supplier Integration, Internal Integration and Customer Integration to a large extent. The results also reveal that Supply Chain Integration has an affirmative and substantial relationship with Supply Chain Efficiency as noted by the p values of less than 0.05, and that Supply Chain Integration adoption positively influences cost and resource utilization in Mogadishu, Somalia's large manufacturing firms as indicated by the p value of below 5%. Supply Chain Integration is recommended for Large Manufacturing Firms in Mogadishu, Somalia, since it has been shown to positively influence Supply Chain Efficiency. The study was limited methodologically as only primary data was used and there is no way of ascertaining that the targeted respondents are the ones who actually participated in the study. The managers and decision n makers can use the outcome of the study to establish supply chain integration practices that influences supply chain efficiency and adopt them in their manufacturing firms to enhance efficiency. The study's drawback is that it focused on large manufacturing enterprises in Mogadishu, thus the findings aren't applicable to other medium or small manufacturing enterprises. This therefore does not guarantee generalizability of findings in the manufacturing firms in Mogadishu but only represents the outcome of large manufacturing firms Future research should concentrate on the impact of supply chain integration on firm’s performance of small, medium and large manufacturing firms in Mogadishu Somalia to see if the results will be the replicated.