Supply Chain Agility as Mediation variable Between Strategic Flexibility, Manufacturing Flexibility and Company Performance: Applying to the Egyptian Private Sector Food Industries

Abstract

This research aims to identify the impact of both manufacturing flexibility, strategic flexibility and the supply chain agility on the company's performance, as well as, to determine the mediating role of the supply chain agility in the relationship between the strategic flexibility, manufacturing flexibility and company performance in a number of food manufacturers in the Egyptian private sector; in order to reach this goal seven hypotheses were developed, and a survey list was designed by the researcher to collect the primary data that serve the research purpose. The Cronbach's Alpha confirmed the reliability of the research variables, the convergent validity of the parameters of the research variables was ascertained by using the Factor Analysis. By using the Path Analysis aimed at testing the research hypotheses and judging the quality of the overall fit of the proposed research model. The research found that there was a statistically significant positive effect of the strategic flexibility, manufacturing flexibility and supply chain agility on the company's performance. The research also acknowledges that the supply chain agility plays a partial mediating role between the strategic flexibility and the company's performance. In addition, the supply chain agility plays a partial mediating role between the manufacturing flexibility and the company's performance.