Abstract:
Now days, Supply Chain management practices have become critical for securing competitive advantage.
In order to cope up with a continuous changing competitive environment, organizations should have a
paradigm shift in their supply chain strategy. This includes implementing lean and agile supply chain
system. Therefore, this study aimed to explore the practice and challenge of agile and lean supply chain
at Cadila Pharmaceuticals Ethiopia. The objective the study was to assess the practice and challenge of
agility and leanness of a pharmaceutical supply chain management system at Cadila Pharmaceuticals
Ethiopia, Oromia, Ethiopia. Among different supply Chain practices, the study conducted on strategic
supplier partnership, customer relationship, level of information sharing, and from lean practice west
elimination and demand management practice and from agility supply chain flexibility, responsiveness
and market sensitivity was assessed .The study used a descriptive cross sectional research design by using
structured self-administered questionnaire and in-depth interview in order to capture the practice and
challenge of agility and leanness and the data was analyzed by using a descriptive analysis using mean
and standard deviation and narration .The result indicate that there where male employee dominated and
most of them completing bachelor degree, Inclusion of key customers in planning and goal setting
activities was agreed by most of the respondents, joint product development with business partner was
practiced ,the company frequently determine future customer expectations as part of agility and Sharing
proprietary information with trading partners is the least activity by the company. The company has a
good start and promising activity in terms of agility and leanness of its supply chain management. Based
on the findings the researcher recommends that management of the company has to improve relationship
with suppliers’, service delivery by being market sensitive, stock out, supply chain disruption, customer
relationship and lean practice of the company.
