Supply Chain Management as a Source for Competitive Advantages of Small and Medium Sized Manufacturing Enterprises

Understanding and implementing supply chain management is a necessary condition to remain competitive in the global competition and improve profitability and consequently of supply chain management (SCM), which is a relatively recent thinking in the management literature. Although many researches highlight increasingly the importance of SCM, as well as scholarly materials remain scattered and disjointed. Moreover, none of research has been directed towards a systematic identification of the core initiatives and constructs involved in SCM. This research is both descriptive and applied research focuses on manufacturing companies of Romanian is considered as a statistical population. Thus, the purpose of this study is to develop a research framework that improves understanding of SCM and stimulates and facilitates researchers to undertake both theoretical and empirical investigation on the critical constructs of SCM. Additionally, this research attempts to study the impact of supply chain practices on competitive position of small and medium sized manufacturing enterprises. The result has showed that there is a relationship between supply chain management practices and competitive advantage in small and medium sized manufacturing enterprises. Also results showed that efforts in: (1) improving customer satisfaction, (2) Strategic supplier partnership (SSP), (3) Customer Relationship (4) Level & Quality of information sharing has significant impact on the competitive position of the company.