Empirical Research On The Influencing Factors Of Supply Chain Performance And Their Relationships

Supply chain management has played an important role in the fierce market competition today, and supply chain performance is a reflection of total operation capacity. Every enterprise comes to pay attention to improving supply chain performance from all aspects, and in this way enhances its competitiveness.Existing studies focus more on theoretical research of supply chain performance and establishment of evaluation index system, but less on influencing factors and their inner influencing mechanism. This paper considers major factors that supporting supply chain operation from the point of material flow, information flow and commercial flow and ignores the uncontrollable ones, taking environments factors as examples. Based on the characters of supply chain, this paper introduces the concept "logistics integration capability" and explores the relationships among and involving information sharing, cooperation. This paper aims to solve the problems including:(1) What are the main influencing factors for supply chain performance and what is the macroscopic system?(2) How is the influencing path diagram from factors to supply chain performance and among the factors like?(3) What kind of role does the logistics integration capability play in the influencing factors? Does it affected by other control variables?According to the basic paradigm of empirical research, using the method of SEM (structural equation modeling), this paper clarified the relationships among cooperation relationships, information sharing, logistics integration capability and supply chain performance based on data collection and data analysis for manufacturing enterprises of China. The results shows that supply chain cooperation and information sharing both have a positive effect on supply chain logistics integration and have an indirect effect on supply chain total performance through the function of logistics integration; supply chain information sharing presents a positive effect on the performance of a single node enterprise; enterprise size plays regulating function on the relationship between logistics integration and supply chain performance.This paper confirms the testing results once again by corresponding case analysis, and also gives some management advices.