The Impact of Supply Chain and Business Process Managements on Firm Performance: The Mediating Effect of Competitive Advantage: Part 1 Constructing Hypotheses

Abstract

© 2017 SERSC. Building business competence is a necessity for firms' survival and long term effectiveness in today's rival business environment. This paper discusses how supply chain and business process managements are instrumental in building firms' competitive advantage and for better performance outcomes. Supply chain and business process management practice antecedents were identified from prier literature. We presented an integrated framework of SCM and BPM. Based on this framework we constructed 6 research hypotheses. In future research we will test hypotheses based on data from real firms. We will also show the empirical test results if both SCM and BPM are essential practices for the improvement of firms' overall performance measures.