Supply Chain Integration and Performance: The Impact of Iranian Pharmaceutical Industries, The Case Study Download PDF

Aims: the purpose of this survey is to inspect internal supply chain factors that they effected on integration supply chain practice and inspecting impression level of supply chain integration on supply chain performance in Iranian pharmaceutical supply chain. Method: the basic fundamentals of supply chain management is coordination and integration forming. Eventually supply chain integration requires the coordination and cooperation of all sectors of the pharmaceutical supply chain, including suppliers, consumers, retail and wholesaler. Considering the importance of supply chain integration to evaluate the integrity of the supply chain grouped the factors affecting coordination under 6 factor such as "mutual understanding", "management commitment", "information sharing”, “risk and reward sharing"," Communication and shared decision-making", "Organizational Structure". Finally, we study their impact on financial performance. Questionnaires were distributed to the managers of pharmaceutical companies; 181 answered the questions. Then the results were transferred to SPSS analysis software carefully. Descriptive statistics, mean, Cronbach's alphabet questionnaire, Friedman test, Pearson correlation coefficient test, Kaiser-Mayer-Olkin and regression test is performed in order to acquire the results. Results: The results show that the pharmaceutical companies are committed to the following factor, respectively: mutual understanding, management commitment, information sharing, risk and reward sharing, Communication and shared decision-making, Organizational Structure.The results show that, organizational structure and management commitment have positive and direct effect on ROI (Return on Investment), operating profit, ROA (Returnon Assets). Also organizational structure has positive and direct effect on the Economic Value Added and Exports. Originality/ Value- this survey's efforts to reveal how potential benefits of integration Iranian pharmaceutical supply chain can no longer paid no attention.