Supply Chain Competency and Collaboration to Build Sustainable Competitiveness of Date Palm Farmers in Thailand
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.53848/jlsco.v11i2.269242Keywords:
Supply chain competency, Supply chain collaboration, Competitiveness, Sustainability, Date palmAbstract
This research aims to study 1) the factors of supply chain competency and collaboration, competitiveness, and sustainability and, 2) direct and indirect influences of supply chain competency and collaboration, competitiveness on sustainability of date palm farmers in Thailand. The population was 328 date palm farmers, collected all data from the population. The instrument was a questionnaire. The statistics used were frequency, mean, standard deviation, and SEM. The results showed that supply chain competency included planning, purchasing, manufacturing, shipping, returns, and support, supply chain collaboration consisted of trust, exchange of information, and alignment of mutual motivation, competitiveness comprised quality, cost and response, and sustainability contained economy, society and environment. Moreover, supply chain competency and collaboration, as well as competitiveness had a positive direct influence on sustainability. In addition, supply chain collaboration and competiveness mediated the influence of supply chain competency on sustainability. Farmers should focus on planning, quality improvement, productivity, reducing operating costs, and the development of marketing channels by creating incentives and developing a knowledge in quality operations, cost reduction and responding to customer needs by sharing between a network of date farmers who grow dates with a focus on the surrounding environment within the community, welfare and safety of the work environment to change developing the ability to manage under critical conditions to be able to stand up and withstand adversity, including adjusting accordingly to take advantage of changes that occur and grow sustainably.
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