Analysis of the association between receivements from suppliers, shipments to clients and perception of external supply chain risks: A comparison between Portugal and Norway

• Autor(a) principal: Monteiro, Catarina Martins Costa Correia
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/21362
• topic: Cadeia de abastecimento -- Supply chain; Supply chain management; External risk; Supplier delays; Client delays; Gestão da cadeia de abastecimento; Risco externo; Atrasos de fornecedores; Atrasos para clientes

The study of Supply Chain Management has been recently gaining interest in academia literature (Ayaviri & Saucedo, 2017). Organisations face an ever more elaborate environment, that is continuously shifting, rising supply chain risks, thus making companies vulnerable to disruptions in the supply chain (Munir et al., 2020). The goal of this dissertation is to understand the association between the perception of external risk factors in the supply chain, delays in deliveries and delays in the reception of materials from suppliers. The data used in this research originated from a scientific database providing evidence from 145 transforming companies of multiple industry sectors, based in two countries: Portugal and Norway. A quantitative study was conducted, resorting to the statistical analysis software tool IBM SPSS Statistics (version 27). The findings of this study suggest that the external risk in the supply chain is perceived differently in Portugal and Norway, under the scope of the sample used. Overall, the correlation coefficients measured for firms in Norway are relatively lower than those regarding Portuguese firms - the companies present in Portugal have demonstrated a higher propensity to perceive external micro risks. In both nations, there were no significant variations in the analysis of the link between delays in receivements and delays in shipments, and the results suggested no significant correlation among the two; this may indicate that the firms in the scope of the sample used have common perceptions of their capabilities to overcome potential upstream delays and avoid causing delays in shipments to their clients.