The Impact of Compatibility on the Supply Chain Process Integration to Improve Supply Chain Capabilities and Company Performance: Applying on Food Retail Companies in Alexandria.

This research aims to identify the impact of compatibility between supply chain partners on the supply chain process integration to improve supply chain capabilities and company performance in food retail companies in Alexandria, and, in order to reach this goal, nine hypotheses were developed, and a survey list developed by the researcher was used to collect the primary data that serve the research purpose, and through the use of  Cronbach's Alpha scale, the reliability of the research variables was confirmed, and by using the method of factor analysis, the convergent validity of the research variables was confirmed, as well as by checking the discriminant validity for the research variables by comparing the square root of the explanatory variance with the correlation coefficients between the variables, and the use of the path analysis to assess the overall quality of fit of the proposed research model. The research found that there is a positive statistically significant effect of the technical compatibility, operational compatibility, and cultural compatibility among supply chain partners on the supply chain process integration. Similarly, there is a positive statistically significant impact of the supply chain process integration on both the supply chain capabilities and the operational performance, as well as there is a lack of effect of the supply chain process integration on the competitive performance, and, finally, the presence of a positive statistical significance effect of the supply chain capabilities on both the operational and competitive performance.