Describing and Diagnosing the Dimensions of the Agile supply chain : An Exploratory Study of Opinions for A Sample of Employees in the Northern Cement Company / Badoush Cement Expansion Factory

Abstract

The research aimed to diagnose the four dimensions of the Agile supply chain (response, adaptation, speed, information technology) in the Northern Cement Company / Badoush Cement Factory Expansion. For the purpose of achieving the goal of the research, the descriptive analytical approach was adopted in presenting ideas, processing and interpreting data, and the researcher identified the Northern Cement Company. / Expansion of the Badush Cement Factory as a field for current research. The study population reached approximately (1400) individuals in all sections of the factory. The questionnaire, which represents the main tool for the study, was distributed to a random sample of (331) individuals. The researcher relied on a number of statistical methods to analyze the data. In order to obtain the opinions of the researched individuals, the most important of these methods are (frequencies, percentages, arithmetic mean, and relative importance), and this was done by adopting ready-made statistical programming (SPSS V26).

In light of the above, the research has reached a number of results, the most important of which are: the availability of the dimensions of the agile supply chain in the laboratory under study, and a number of proposals have been reached, the most important of which are: the need for the management of the laboratory under study to pay more attention to the agile supply chain in its four dimensions in all the different departments and not It should be limited to one section rather than another.