Abstract: Wholesalers, manufacturers, retailers, distributors, suppliers, third party service providers (3PLs) and every party involved in the supply chain are under pressure to reduce and balance their costs, time and inventories in order to continue to be profitable while still meeting their customers' demands. The best way for them to achieve this is to implement effective supply chain management practices (Mwale & Nyamwange, 2014). The objectives of the study will be to explore the role of supply chain management practices, to determine the role of information communication technology, to establish the role of inventory management, to ascertain the role of quality management and to evaluate the role of supplier relationship management on organization performance in Bata Shoe Company Limited in Kenya. The research will be carried out through a cross-sectional research survey design whereby the target population comprised of Bata Shoe Company management and staff. In this study the researcher will use stratified random sampling and simple random sampling where 10% of the target population representative of the entire population will be studied. Questionnaires with close-end questions and likert scales will be used as the research instrument by being administered to the respondents and collected after due completion by the researcher. The collected data will be analyzed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS version 21) frequencies, percentages, means, standard deviations and regression analysis
Keywords: Supply chain Management, Organization Performance, Bata Limited Kenya.
Title: Role of Supply Chain Management Practices on Organizational Performance in Manufacturing Firms: A Case of Bata Shoe Company Limited, Kenya
Author: Michael Antony Mudimba, Dr. Noor Ismael
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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