TY  - JOUR
T1  - Effect of Supply Chain Management Practices in a Case Study of Dire Dawa Food Complex
Share Company in Dire Dawa Town, Ethiopia
AU - Debebe Beluhu, Regan 
JO  - International Business Management
VL  - 15
IS  - 2
SP  - 20
EP  - 29
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1993-5250
DO  - ibm.2021.20.29
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ibm.2021.20.29
KW  - Supplier and customer relationship
KW  -internal operations
KW  -information sharing
KW  -information technology
KW  -training and the integrations
AB  - The purpose of this study is to study the
practices of supply chain management from the five
perspectives are supplier and customer relationship,
internal operations, information sharing and technology
and training and to see the integrations among supply
chain partners. For the accomplishment of this, the study
was employed through descriptive design in which the
selections of the respondents were carried out by using
judgmental and convenience sampling techniques. The
total numbers of company employees are 336. Out of this
about 120 employees are not educated. Therefore, the
target was 216. From this target population, 32
respondents were considered as a sample size. Both
primary and secondary sources of data were used for this
study. Questionnaire and interviews were used as
instruments for data collection. The data was analyzed by
using descriptive statistics and presented in tables with
mean and standard deviation. The major findings indicate
that most supply chain management practices are
moderately practiced with company. Where as IT and
training practices are poorly applied and sales forecast
information sharing with customers is poor. Based on
both quantitative and qualitative analysis the case
company has poor relationship with its customers and
suppliers and poor customer’s services. Manufacturing,
supply and demand uncertainties are the major challenges
of the case company’s supply chain which prohibits
effective implementation of supply chain management.
ER  -