Effect of Supply Chain Agility Dimensions on Supply Chain Performance: A Case of Iranian SMEs

There are five core factors of supply chain agility (FSCA) and diverse experts have affirmed the connections of such FSCA in various directions and performances of the firms, worldwide. However, scholars claimed that yet there is need to work more in such direction to analyze multi-directional findings. We currently worked on some FSCA of supply chain (SC) to affirm the linkage on supply chain performance (SCP) to realize the impact of FSCA and SCP. Two factors of FSCA such as alertness (FASC) and Swiftness (FAWC) have been used to affirm such connections towards SCP. A total of 200 (n=200) surveys were circulated among managers of SMEs in Iran and thereafter were examined by means of equation techniques (SEM). After such calculation, it is found that FASC has positive connection with SCP and likewise connection of FAWC is also observed as positive toward SCP performance, respectively. Hence, this paper affirmed that both factors of FSCA, i.e., FASC and FAWC has positive association with SCP in the domain or Iran. Therefore, the supply chain management should emphasize on FSCA particularly on FASC and FAWC since such factors are observed with positive connection to SCP. We have provided numerous implications and directions for supply chain managers to work more and conducting in-depth findings in future.