Assessment Of The Effects Of Supply Chain Management In Sierra Leone Brewery Limited (SLBL)

Supply chain management(SCM)is a broad discipline in which many different,tasks are investigated,Today's business environment is more global and competitive than it has been in the past.The modern business is characterized by shorter product life cycles,rapid new product introductions,increasingly knowledgeable,well informed,and sophisticated customers.These forces supply chains to be more responsive.The modern supply chains are thus expected to respond rapidly,effectively,and efficiently to changes in the marketplace so as to sustain and furthermore create competitive advantage because nowadays modern business management,individual businesses no longer compete as solely autonomous entities,but rather as supply chains.Effective supply chain management has become a potentially valuable way of securing competitive advantage and improving organizational performance since competition is no longer between organizations but among supply chains.For this very reason,we have been able to analyze the SCM of Sierra Leone Brewery Limited and also profound a prospective supply chain that will eventually increase not only its productivity but its market shares as well.After the ten years of the brutal civil war that ended in the year 2001 to 2002,the Sierra Leone Brewery has been growing significantly it is for this reason that precipitated the need to investigate the cause of such growth if it's as a result of its SCM practice or not.Data for the study was collected from the Sierra Leone Brewery Limited(SLBL),after analyzing the response through a rigorous statistical technique,the results indicate that higher levels of SCM practice such as customer relationship management,manufacturing flow management,and supplier relationship management can lead to enhanced competitive advantage and improve organizational performance.Therefore,the management of supply chains in a business environment has a major financial impact on all parties involved in the chain.Due to that,research and implementation of supply chain management principles to improve the supply chain are of key importance to any global company today,in this thesis theoretical framework are used to evaluate the supply chain management concepts on Sierra Leone Brewery Limited(SLBL).SLBL is the largest Sierra Leone producing beer,malt company the data was collected using questionnaires the questions in the questionnaire were designed taking into consideration the issues related to the problem and goals of the study and theories on the subject.It is therefore believed that the responses and results from this study are reliable.