The Mediating Role of SCM Strategy between Competitive Strategy and SCM Performance

In this paper investigate an empirical approach about the appropriateness of competitive strategy and supply chain in manufacturing companies. Thus information was obtained from manufacturers by using a questionnaire. This paper emphasizes the importance of achieving strategic appropriateness between competitive strategy and SCS, and then we discuss the hypothesis to show that SCS has a mediator role between CS and supply chain or business performance. Review of the research literature including strategic appropriateness, SCS, CS and link between strategic appropriateness and performance. By using test, the zero hypotheses has been proposed, and descriptive statistics are presented for computing competitive strategy, Supply Chain Strategy, the company's performance against the combination of strategy, barriers to the implementation of supply chain strategies for each combination of strategy and overall performance of the supply chain. Target populations for data collection are including: automobile, electronic products, construction machinery, industries of food processing. This paper has been carried out by research on the cases that have been selected among the top 200 companies in Iran.