Explaining the Effect of Cloud Computing on Electronic Supply Chain Management in the Construction Industry

Subject Areas : Industrial Management

Reza Ehtesham Rasi ¹ , Kajal Zarei ² , Gholamreza Pashaei Vahid ³ , Naser Mahmoudi ⁴

1 - industrial Management,
2 - PhD student in Industrial Management, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran.
3 - PhD student in Industrial Management, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran.
4 - PhD student in Industrial Management, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran.

Received: 2021-11-10 Accepted : 2022-10-10 Published : 2022-10-23

Keywords: Supply Chain, cloud computing, Electronics Supply Chain, Construction Industry,

Abstract :

With the development of information and communication technology, part of the supply chain, including organizational customers, suppliers, and other sectors that play an important role in the business process, has been transferred to existing information technology platforms, causing a complete change. Patterns of trade have become traditional. Thus, the purpose study is to present a conceptual model of the electronic supply chain based on cloud computing in the Iranian construction industry. The research method in this study is descriptive-correlational and analysis of the variance-covariance matrix. This research has been done in the form of libraries and fields. Thus, first, the literature libraries of the "electronic supply chain based on cloud computing", research background and theories on the subject were conducted, and after identifying the indicators, a questionnaire was distributed among the experts of companies active in the construction industry and a questionnaire was distributed. Finally, using the structural equation modeling method, the proposed conceptual model of the research was analyzed. Based on the structural equation modeling findings, in the companies active in the construction industry, "Cost Effectiveness (CEP)", "Delivery (DP)", "Quality (QP)", "Customer Relationship (CRP)", "Integration" (IP) "," Technology (TP) "," Flexibility (FP) "," Stability (S) "," Environmental Intelligence (IE) "," Ease of Access (EA) "and" Tactical Advantage (TA) " on "Electronic supply chain based on cloud computing in Iran's construction industry" has a positive and significant effect.

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