Supply chain management practices as a mediator of the relationship between Total Quality Management and An organizational performance “ An applied study on the pharmaceutical sector in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia”

Research Abstract

The last period of atheist and the twentieth century witnessed many developments and changes in a row and accelerated that made it difficult to follow and the pursuit of this development in the business environment, particularly in the field of production and management technology. It helped the advances in information and communication technology on this development, progress and spread rapidly around the world, where the progress to the spread of the use of electronic computers better, greater margins, less effort, as soon as helped to convey ideas, inventions and innovations, particularly in the speed the fields of production technology, management and information and all the island led to a change in the production and management techniques and the emergence of a range of artistic styles that rely heavily on sophisticated art Advanced Manufacturing Technology (1). Developed advanced production technology (AMT) organizations in front of one of two choices, either inevitable interaction with the surrounding environment and continuous development or leave the world of industry, where he became the business organizations need to keep up with those changes and interaction with continuous coordination between industrial systems and its components properties and the requirements and dimensions of the internal and external surrounding the organization variables in order to achieve continuous development and supports their ability to survive and achieve goals (2). These developments have resulted in structural changes in the systems and the characteristics of the manufacturing environment, which took simultaneous the first two-way, which regard to developments in the field of production technology, manufacturing and second related to developments in the administrative methods of production and is all of the supply chain management and total quality management of integrated management methods.

Research Keywords

Supply chain management