Document Type : Original Article
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Business Administration Department Faculty Of Commerce Alexandria University Alexandria Egypt
Abstract
Business organizations have recently adopted a number of concepts and practices to cope with increased competition over the last two decades. The most important of these is the concept of supply chain management (SCM). Supply chain management is traditionally defined as the science and art of integrating product flows And information and funds through a group of parties that take the form of relationships between suppliers and buyers to the end consumer (Coyle J; Lan-gley C; Novack R. and Gibson B, 20-12). Information technology plays a key role in the integration of logistics processes between supply chain actors as the consistent use of information technology leads to increased collaboration and coordination between supply chain parties (Al., 2011 et al.) And Biniazi. The supply chain to Michael Porter's ideas when he presented the value-chain model in which he emphasized the importance of integrating business processes through a series of logistical activities within the supply chain (Porter, 1985).Supply chain will improve the performance of organizations. (Petersen et al., 2005; Cai et al., 20-06; Skipworth et al., 2015; Kaliani et al., 2016) From the review of research literature in the field of supply chain management, it has become clear to the researcher that researchers and practitioners are more interested in the integration and compatibility of the supply chain parties through the adoption and development of IT systems capable of achieving this integration between parties and processes, Decision making and achieving financial and strategic successes in the markets, especially the global markets. Given the growing importance of information technology within the supply chain, some authors and researchers have described it as the backbone of supply chain management and management (Chen and Wolfe, 2011; Grover & Malhotra, 1997; Deraman et al., 2012) Given this growing importance of information technology within the supply chain and its important role in creating and integrating the supply chain partners or partners, the research will focus on examining the role of information technology capabilities in integrating supply chain partners referred to in some literature as the buyer-supplier relationships , As the supply chain consists of a group of parties described as a supply and purchase relationship to the end consumer and thus an understanding of this impact on improving the performance of the organization that depends on building that strategic relationship with its suppliers and buyers. (Sandra, 2005; Vickery et al., 2010; Wong, et al., 20-11; Thun, 2010) Some studies have pointed to a positive and direct impact of IT capabilities on the resilience of the organization's performance through integration of linguistic activities (Ghosh et al., 2014; Trivedi & Kaushik, 2014; Skipworth et al., 2015; Singhry, 2015 and Pati et al., 2016) This research seeks to identify the impact of information technology capabilities on integrating supply chain relationships, both internal and external integration with suppliers and customers, and clarifying the role of this relationship in improving the performance of organizations, in view of the growing interest in developing strategic relations between the parties Supply chain, as well as increased attention to the compatibility of information systems within the supply chain.
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