A Project Management Approach for Supply Chain Management to Sustain Growth and Performance at Suppliers

Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2013 in the subject Business economics - Supply, Production, Logistics, grade: A, Atlantic International University (Business School of Economics), course: Doctor of Project Management ( PhD), language: English, abstract: Supply chain especially procurement drives almost 70% of commodities daily in companies to sustain the performance for strategic intent. Working in an environment where teams function cross-functional and also building relationships with suppliers performance normally give rise to high expectations both for the company contracting suppliers and the suppliers conducting various tasks contractually to fulfil demanding orders. Defence and contractual defence commodities in South Africa has decreased exponentially since 1980 till 1994 even so today that many suppliers have lost their skills and manufacturing ability to inter a market that is very risky today. Besides the normal performance measurement rating a supplier as an approved supplier, the author argued with existing frameworks how little modern and well established companies know about their suppliers contributing to strategy.
Taking the conceptual frameworks based on performance, quality, SRM (Supplier Relationship Management) and SOB (Supplier Organisational Behaviour) the author is of opinion that suppliers can be measured using organisational behaviour concepts to enhance performance at suppliers. The research will contribute new ideas developed by others as a concept to gain information about the behavioural patterns why key suppliers contributing for Company X cannot perform effective and efficiently. By means of a survey targeting keys suppliers the research formulated wanted to gain tacit information about the following elements that drives performance from a project management approach:[...]