The Impact of Operations Strategy Dimensions on the Supply Chain Strategy and Business Performance: An Empirical Study on the Egyptian Industrial Companies

Abstract

This research aims to identify the effect of Operations Strategy Dimensions on Supply Chain Strategy and the effect of Supply Chain Strategy on Business Performance in a number of industrial private sector and public sector companies in Alexandria Governorate. With applied on several industries such as textile, garment, metallurgical, chemical, food, pharmaceutical and chemical industries. In order to reach this goal, ten hypotheses have been developed, and a survey developed by the researcher has been used to collect the preliminary data which serve the research purpose. The reliability of the research variables measures was ensured through Cronbach's alpha measure. Convergent validity of the research variables measures was ensured using factor analysis. Path analysis technique was conducted to test the research hypotheses and to judge the quality of the overall compatibility of the proposed research model and its improvement. The research found an effect for each Cost Strategy, Quality Strategy and Delivery Strategy on efficient supply chain Strategy and Responsive Supply Chain Strategy. Also, the research found that there is no effect for Flexibility strategy on each efficient supply chain Strategy and Responsive Supply Chain Strategy. In addition, the research found a negative effect for Efficient supply chain strategy on business performance and a positive effect for responsive supply chain strategy on business performance. Finally, the research found that there is an effect for each Cost Strategy, Quality Strategy and Flexibility strategy on Business Performance.