Supply Chain Management Practices and Supply Chain Performance Effectiveness in Manufacturing TMT Industries in Kerala

Supply chain management and its efficiency is directly impacting the competence to generate and bring in more and better value added solutions obviously to consumers, the actual end users. When strategically handled, the improved supply chain performance effectiveness benefits every part and portion of the chain, viz, the producer, the distributor and other people along the supplier networks. Supply chain management practices (SCMP) and the corresponding variations in Supply chain performance effectiveness (SCPE) in TMT steel companies have been the central theme of the study
for which strategically formulated questionnaires containing 202 questions were circulated to receive feedback from relevant manufacturing companies in Kerala. Suitable theories with appropriate resource perspectives have been adopted in the study. Numerous empirical observations
result out of various explorations demonstrate that the management practices of the merchant or supplier has a significant constructive brunt on the efficiency of supply chain performance. The final results of the factor analysis provide us with extremely new and fresh ways and strategies for supply chain management, despite the limitation of shrinking the study only to manufacturing industries. The study has its impact in a practical way that will help decision-makers to understand the value of adopting SCMP in order to improve SCPE. The outcome of factor analysis also gives industrial enterprises supply chain management practices a new dimension. The study's weaknesses, on the other hand, stem from its emphasis on the manufacturing industry. Additionally, just one responder from each organization was used to obtain the data.