Research On The Relationship Between Supply Chain Integration Capabilities And Firm Performance

With the innovation of management theories,advancement of information technology and economic globalization,market competition modes of competitions between supply chains have instead of the previous competitions between sales expansion of enterprises,higher products quality and lower production costs.Under the competitive of supply chain,supply chain integration has become a new management conception for the promotion of competitive advantages and enterprises' performance.And supply chain integration capabilities have become a powerful weapon for better performance and competitive advantages.Therefore,the research on the impact of supply chain integration on firm performance may have important realistic meaning for the improvement of competitive advantages and performance of manufacturing enterprises.And the process of the supply chain integration capabilities form the firm performance will be affected by different factors that external and internal of the enterprise.The most significant characteristics in the external environment is environment uncertainty,and the stronger the environment uncertainty is,for improving the firm performance,the more attention the enterprise will be payed to the personal demand information of customers and the communication with the customers,and integrate these information and the firm's series of products plan and arrange production schedule.The enterprise strategic orientation,an important factor for firm performance,determines the activities of the enterprise rules and daily operation.The stronger the technology orientation is,for improving the firm performance,the more attention will be payed to product development with the suppliers and the technological revolution of this trade,and then reintegrate the resources,organization structure and technology through the internal integration capabilities;the stronger the marker orientation is,the more attention will be payed to collect information about market and customers,and integrate these information in the planning and production process,then meet the customers' personalized demand to improve the firm performance.Therefore,the environment uncertainty and strategic orientation is possible to have an adjustment function between supply chain integration capabilities and firm performance.On the basis of research reviews,a research framework is presented which describes the relationship between supply chain integration capabilities,environment uncertainty,strategic orientation and firm performance.The research select supplychain integration capabilities of manufacture enterprises in China as its research object,and discusses the relationship between supply chain integration capabilities,environment uncertainty,strategic orientation and firm performance by means of Exploratory Factor Analysis(EFA),descriptive statistics,Pearson correlation,SEM and linear regression analysis.The research conclusions show that,there are some positive impacts between supply chain integration capabilities(supplier integration capabilities,inner-enterprise integration capabilities,customer integration capabilities)and firm performance;the environment uncertainty has a positive adjustment function between inner-enterprise integration capabilities,customer integration capabilities and firm performance;the different strategic orientations have different positive adjustment function between supply chain integration capabilities and firm performance.Finally,based on the empirical conclusion,some suggestions are put forward on the improvement of supply chain integration capabilities and performance of manufacture enterprises in China.