Coffee supply chains integration:a study on seka chekorsa district basic cooperative, jimma, Ethiopia

Abstract

Now a day’s supply chain integration is can pave the way for more profitable operation / considered as a survival or competitive strategy for all parties involved in firms. The main objective of the study is to examine coffee supply chain integration in case of Seka Chekorsa district primary cooperatives. The integration area of Seka Chekorsa coffee product primary cooperative with suppliers and purchaser as members are information, collaboration and resource sharing and organizational linkage. The level and practice of information integration, collaboration and resource sharing, and organizational relationship linkage implementation practice has been analyzed. The main benefit and Critical factors of supply chain integration. The study deployed descriptive and diagnostic research method with representative sample of 205 respondents from the supply chain partners selected through stratified random sampling. The study is based on literature review/document, interviews and collecting data used semistructured questionnaire. The collected data was analyzed used statistical package for social science software descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (correlation and regression) correlation result indicates that, there is a positive relationship between determinants and regression show statistically significant effect in the primary cooperative. The main findings of the study show that,the coffee supply chain integration practice are information integration, collaboration and resource sharing and organizational relationship linkage, at moderate level. Finally, the study recommends creating proper practice of Supply chain integration networks system.