Abstract: In Kenya, supply chain resilience is a relatively recent area of supply chain research that focuses on companies' ability to withstand disruptions. Manufacturing firms would be able to survive delays and continuously change their supply chains to satisfy the changing requirements and desires of their customers, shareholders, and other stakeholders thanks to the supply chain's resilience. The study's main goal was to determine was to find out the effect of supply chain resilience strategies on operational performance of Manufacturing firms in Nairobi city county, Kenya with specific objective of the study was to be find out the role of Multisourcing, Near shoring, product harmonization and Inventory management strategies on operational performance of Manufacturing firms in Nairobi city county, Kenya. The study's participants were all workers of Kenyan manufacturing firms in Nairobi city county, Kenya. The study's target population was all 454 manufacturing companies in Nairobi and its environs, drawn from 12 main manufacturing subsectors. The study's sample size was 189 respondents, who were selected using a simple stratified random sampling technique. To achieve this, the study was adopted cross sectional survey design. The researcher used questionnaires to collect data from the respondents. Descriptive and inferential statistics was applied in analyzing the data using SPSS Version 23 software. This study tested the null hypotheses that Multisourcing, near shoring, product harmonization and Inventory management strategies have no significant positive effect on operational performance of manufacturing firms in Nairobi city county, Kenya. The study found out all variables Multisourcing, near shoring, product harmonization and Inventory management strategies have positive significance on operational performance of Manufacturing to improve on the Manufacturing firms in Nairobi city county, Kenya. Firm’s operational performance, it was therefore recommended that firms to some extent should adopt some strategies like Multisourcing, Nearshoring, Product harmonization stand Inventory management. The study also recommends that manufacturing firms should advance on the supply chain risk management strategies as mitigation measures. Particularly, they should be careful on the subsequent dimensions of the supply chain risk management, equal risk sharing, quality planning, quality assurance and inspection in production. Enhancement of stated elements of risk management of the supply chain will lead to better supply chain risk mitigation, which will translate into improved performance.
Keywords: Multisourcing, near shoring, product harmonization, Inventory management operational performance.
Title: Effect of Supply Chain Resilience Strategies on Operational Performance of Manufacturing Firms in Nairobi City County, Kenya
Author: Lydiah Mairura, Prof. Willy Muturi
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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