Barriers to Effective Supply Chain Management Practices and Performance: Multi-sector Perspectives.

Abstract

The cohesive objective of supply chain management is to ensure timely delivery of the right quality and quantity of products at the least possible cost whilst maintaining the highest level of customer satisfaction. Every organisation is subjected to some barriers that moderate its practices and performance. This paper reviews the barriers to effective adoption of SCMPs and supply chain performance in different sectors of the economy. To have the latest set of data, the study considered peer-reviewed journal articles published between 2018-2022 with a focus on the barriers to SCMPs and SC performance. From these criteria, the author retrieved and reviewed 25 journal articles with focus in different types of industries. From the reviewed articles, the author identified and ranked 20 major barriers which impede the effective adoption of SCMPs and supply chain performance. Lack of coordination and trust along the SC, conflicting objectives, financial and human constraints, the bullwhip effects, lack of managers‟ commitment and awareness on the perceived benefits of SCMPs were spotted as the most barriers. The study asserts that the barriers to effective adoption of SCMPs and SC performance are almost the same across different sectors of the economy. To SC managers and stakeholders, the author recommends the need to review the present literature and extract the barriers and reap the full potential of enablers along their SC.