The supply chain management in Saudi Arabia

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The supply chain management in Saudi Arabia

Methodology

In order to identify the status of Saudi manufacturing and factors which may influence the adoption of world-class practices in Saudi context, a questionnaire has been sent to a sample of 321 manufacturers, selected from the population of Saudi organisations. The sample represents the top manufacturers in Saudi Arabia that were retrieved from the top 1,000 Saudi companies' list. Of the manufacturers that took part in the survey, 107 responded, which makes the response rate 33.33 percent.

The authors disqualified three because they responded after the deadline, the remaining 104 manufacturers coined a response rate of 32.39 percent. The respondents were divided into two groups, which were related to their ownership category. In the first group, private manufacturers (100 percent Saudi), there were 76 respondents representing 73.1 percent of the sample. In the second group, joint venture manufacturers (partly Saudi), there were 28 respondents representing 26.9 percent of the sample.

The research aimed to identify the critical success factors that facilitate the WCM status of the Saudi manufacturing sector, the SCM was suggested among these factors. The survey also investigated the awareness of tools and practices, such as SCM, as essential for the manufacturing function in enterprises at present.

Questionnaire Analysis

Saudi Aramco

Founded in 1933, Saudi Aramco has long served as the engine of the Saudi economy, producing the oil that fuels the world. Today, the region's largest company continues to expand, making enormous contributions to Saudi Arabia 's prosperity.

Saudi Aramco, a fully integrated oil company based in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia , has discovered and holds about one-quarter of the world's proven conventional oil reserves, or approximately 261.8 billion barrels. Its 55,000 people work together to produce, process and distribute 9.5 million barrels of oil per day, 11 per cent of the world's daily requirements. Aramco is the world's lowest cost producer.

Long an advocate of safe and pollution-free operations, Aramco is committed to providing the reliable energy supplies the world needs for continued prosperity and development as efficiently and effectively as possible, maintaining its leading role in the oil and gas industries. The company continues to expand and diversify its interests beyond oil and gas, ensuring that it will fuel the world economy for many years to come.

Corporate activities include:

* Exploration and production of oil and gas

* Oil and gas processing and refining

* Shipping of crude oil and refined products

* Refined products distribution and sales Services (storage, finance, insurance, aviation)

Proctor and Gamble

The function of a merger starts with the building of an organization that is committed to the values of achieving every aspect of an operation that deals with supply and demand of goods. The organization has a mission and a goal to accomplish while trying to determine the impact it has in the world of business. The focus must be on the planning phase of management and the associated economy. Management and employees alone can make a change for the better. The determination to produce numbers that ...