International Journal of Supply Chain Management
Vol 8, No 5 (2019): International Journal of Supply Chain Management (IJSCM)

Can Big Data Benefits Bridge Between Data Driven Supply Chain Orientation and Financial Performance? Evidence from Manufacturing Sector of Thailand

Komson Sommanawat (College of Logistics and Supply Chain, Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University, Bangkok, Thailand)
Tanapon Vipaporn (Social Research Institute, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand)
Watcharin Joemsittiprasert (Division of Business Administration, ASA College, New York, USA.)



Article Info

Publish Date
26 Oct 2019

Abstract

With the digitalization of industry, many of business operations depend upon the data which either support them or reject them due to versatile reasons. Such data has been managing through big data analytics now which has diverse benefits ranged from transaction to strategic benefits. However, their implication on financial performance of manufacturing firms in Thailand has stayed as grey area in literature. This study has aimed to analyze the impact of data driven supply chain orientation on financial performance in manufacturing firms of Thailand in mediating role of transactional, transformational, strategic and informational benefits of big data. Almost 42 manufacturing organizations have been surveyed in this regard which were currently engaged in big data operations and data has been collected from their employees through questionnaire. SEM and CFA were run to analyze the data to analyze hypotheses and model fitness respectively. Results have depicted that data driven supply chain significantly enhances financial performance through big data benefits and also in its direct path too. This study can help manufacturing firms in Asia to incorporate big data analytics in their manufacturing systems to ensure good financial health.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

IJSCM

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Subject

Decision Sciences, Operations Research & Management Engineering Environmental Science Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering Transportation

Description

International Journal of Supply Chain Management (IJSCM) is a peer-reviewed indexed journal, ISSN: 2050-7399 (Online), 2051-3771 (Print), that publishes original, high quality, supply chain management empirical research that will have a significant impact on SCM theory and practice. Manuscripts ...