| dc.description.abstract | The primary goal of supply chain design is to up service quality and improve interaction
levels between service providers and customers.The study was guided by four objectives
aimed at establishing effect of facility location, Operation assessment, Inventory
reduction on performance of state owned sugar firms and the moderating effect of
organizational factors on relationship between supply chain design and performance of
state-owned sugar manufacturing firms in Kenya. The research employed descriptive
casual research design to provide cause effect relationship between study variables while
applying simple stratified purposive sampling technique to collect data. The target
population comprised all the four operating state owned sugar firms namely, Chemelil,
Muhoroni, Sony and Nzoia constituting four (4) factory managers, four (4) Finance
managers, five hundred and twenty four (524) Agriculture Extension Officers, four (4)
Human Resource managers, One hundred and eighty (180) Agriculture services
Personnel and four (4) Strategy and planning Managers totalling to 720. The researcher
used questionnaires for data collection. Analysis of data was executed by descriptive and
inferential statistics. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) helped in the
analysis. Results presentation was in form of tables, figures, charts as well as histograms.
Descriptive analysis facilitated the researcher get opinion percentages on the research
issue. Hypothesis was tested at 95% confidence level. In determining the objectives, the
hypotheses “ Hoi: Ho2; HO3 and HO4: have insignificant relationship to performance of
state owned sugar manufacturing firms in Kenya” were set and tested sequentially; the
hypotheses were rejected consecutively; hence facility location, Operation assessment,
Inventory reduction and the moderating effect of organizational factors on the
relationship between supply chain design and performance had significant positive effect
on performance of selected sugar manufacturing firms in Kenya. Simple Regression
Analysis helped determine the strength and direction of the relationship between study
variables. Facility location, operational assessment, inventory reduction and the
moderating effect of organizational factors contributed greatly in the improvement
ofperformance of the selected State owned Sugar Firms. | en_US |
