Ramasary, Ravi and Mohd Saifudin, Adam and Shamsuddin, Jauriyah (2020) Exploring Logistics Strategy in Malaysian SMEs Performance. International Journal of Supply Chain Management (IJSCM), 9 (4). pp. 1269-1275. ISSN 2050-7399

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Abstract

To strengthen the SMEs development, SMEs are measured as one of the essential elements to enhance country’s economic performance, creating employment opportunities and transforming towards industrialized country by the year 2050. However, in order to sustain role of contributing to the mainstream economy, SMEs have to implement effective strategies in all of their business operations, inclusive of logistics. Therefore the objective of this study was to investigate the challenges encountered as well as the benefits realized by SMEs during the implementation of logistics strategies. The finding of the study reveal that, the lack of logistics management skills among the workforce were the most important challenges to SMEs. In this studies, quantitative approach method was conducted to gather data in the study to measure the descriptive statistics of all the constructs been measured in the survey. This paper will first discuss the literature review covering four areas that are important in this study. This will be followed by finding, recommendations as well as the conclusion of the studies

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	SME (Small Medium Enterprise), transforming towards industrialized, logistics strategies & challenges.
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management
Divisions:	School of Technology Management & Logistics
Depositing User:	Mrs. Norazmilah Yaakub
Date Deposited:	09 Sep 2020 00:52
Last Modified:	09 Sep 2020 00:52
URI:	https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/27419

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