Abstract:

Understanding and implementing supply chain management is a necessary condition to remain competitive in the global competition and improve profitability and consequently of supply chain management (SCM), which is a relatively recent thinking in the management literature. Although many researches highlight increasingly the importance of SCM, as well scholarly materials remain scattered and disjointed. Moreover, none of research has been directed towards a systematic identification of the core initiatives and constructs involved in SCM. This research is both descriptive and applied research focus on manufacturing companies of Romanian is considered as a statistical population. Thus, the purpose of this study is to develop a research framework that improves understanding of SCM and stimulates and facilitates researches to undertake both theoretical and empirical investigation on the critical constructs of SCM.