The Impact of Logistics Management on Supply Chain Performance in the Syrian Food Products Sector
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of logistics management on supply chain performance in the Syrian Food Products Sector. In addition, it aims to assessing the level of awareness and understanding of logistics and supply chain management concepts in the Syrian context.The research methodology involved the adoption of a survey as a research strategy and quantitative approach, utilized a self-administered questionnaire, to arrive at the major findings of the study. The type of research is a single cross-sectional design in which the collection of data from the respondents was carried out only once. Data was analyzed using the statistical package for social sciences (SPSS). The paper revealed that there is an impact of logistics management on supply chain performance in the Syrian Food Products Sector. It also revealed that there is a high level of awareness among the respondents about the logistics and supply chain management concepts. As far as the researcher is aware, this paper is the first to investigate the impact of logistics management on supply chain performance in the Syrian food products sector; thus its finding will be an original contribution to the field of logistics and supply chain management. In addition, as there has been a shortage of research in the field of logistics and supply chain, generally in the Middle East countries, the researcher hopes that this paper will establish a foundation for further research in the region.
Keywords: Logistics Management, Supply chain management (SCM), Supply chain Performance (SCP), Supply Chain Management Concepts (SCMC), Syrian Food Products Sector.
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