Identifying affective factors on supply chain performance in Persian Gulf petrochemical industries

Abstract

In today's markets, technological and competitive factors are rapidly increasing, which have made it difficult for the companies to provide what they need.  Instead, handing out has become one of the main strategies of the companies. The objective of this research is to investigate factors affecting the performance of supply chains in petrochemical industries of Persian Gulf which based on experts' opinion; different indicators were identified in order to measure the performance of supply chains. This research is a descriptive, surveying study based on correlation and regression analysis. In order to conduct the research, first, affective factors on performance of the supply chain based on experts' opinion were presented through using Delphi technique. Then,  the elicited factors were investigated through using factor analysis technique and finally the conceptual model of supply chain performance measurement were obtained.  In this model, the impact of factors such as clients, process, cost, flexibility, and time on the performance of this industry were introduced, respectively and finally some indicators were provided and evaluated in measurement.