Quality and supply chain integration critical success factors proposed model

Purpose:
The purpose of this article is to propose a model designed to achieve successful Quality and Supply Chain Integration.
Design/methodology/approach:
The research design, guided by a Qualitative philosophy, was inductive in nature. Based on extensive literature review methodology on existing body of knowledge regarding Quality management and Supply chain management, the researcher deduced four main critical points to achieve quality supply chain integration.
Findings:
To achieve successful quality supply chain integration organizations need to apply the following factors; Value added perspective, Process Management, Performance Measures and Environmental Analysis. As organizational environment varies, the strategies must be crafted to take these variabilities into account.
Research limitations/implications:
The absence of empirical research is the limitation of this study. The validity and the theoretical soundness of the proposed four critical factors can only be tested by collecting empirical data from real-life cases and testing the propositions of the framework.
Practical implications:
The proposed Model is essential to improve the application of Quality and supply chain integration
Originality/value:
Despite the remarkable contributions of existent research, there is a lack of studies that identified the critical success factors that leads to successful quality and supply chain integration. The proposed Model has included four critical success factors that filled that gap within the literature.