Abstract
Companies are gaining competitive advantage based on their supply chain networks now a day where strengthened supplier relationship plays a vital part. This purpose of this research is to measure the organization’s supply chain performance through supplier relationship management by considering the knowledge management practices as the moderator. Majorly, customized services provided by the suppliers and collaboration level with suppliers are focused in this research whereas supply chain performance is measured through supply chain operations reference (SCOR) model and knowledge management practices were considered as knowledge creation, sharing, storing and implementation. The study has used cross-sectional design under the positivist paradigm by following deductive approach where questionnaires are used as data collection tool. The automobile sector in Pakistan is focused in this research specifically the two-wheeler motorbike manufacturing firms. Data are analyzed by using SEM model through SmartPLS software and SPSS-24 software is used for descriptive analysis. The study found that the individual impacts of the independent and moderating variables are significant over dependent variables however the moderation analysis shows that the KMP moderates partially the relationships of SRM and SCP as few hypotheses remained insignificant. The study is unique into its nature as prior studies partially focused either on direct impacts of KMP on SCP or SRM on SCP but none of the study is found that consider the KMP as moderator.

Kashif Mahmood, Dr. Muqqadas Rehman, Prof. Dr. Ch. Abdul Rehman. (2020) Improving Supply Chain Performance through Supplier Relationship Management: A Moderating Model of Knowledge Management Practices in Automobile Sector of Pakistan, Orient Research Journal of Social Sciences, Volume 5, Issue-2.
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