Petrochemical Industry Supply Chain Performance: Plant Location, Supply Chain Uncertainty, and Manufacturing Practices

Continuous performance improvement in a dynamic supply chain has become an important issue for suppliers, producers, and retailers who want to be able to compete and look for a sustainable competitiveness environment. The existing literature on supply chain puts more emphasis on quantitative factors than on other factors. This focus on quantitative has cuased and ignorance of the qualitative factors which generally affect the creation and invigoration of competitive advantages. In this study it has been attempted to examine the qualitative factors which affect the supply chain management (e.g. plant location, supply chain uncertainty, and manufacturing practices) via Bhatnagar and S. Sohal performance evaluation models, and to introduce some solutions to improve the performance. Data has been collected through Questionnaires and the research hypotheses have been examined by regression statistical method. Results show that the factors affecting petrochemical industry supply chain performance are plant location, supply chain uncertainty, and manufacturing practices.