A Confirmatory Analysis of Affected Factors to Supply Chain Collaboration: A Case Study of the Frozen Shrimp Industries in Southern Thailand

Abstract

Nowadays, the Thai frozen shrimp supply chain has critical problems both of shrimp price and spread of shrimp diseases. One of all reasons come from the lack of a collaboration in their chain members. Therefore, this research aimed to study factors that affected supply chain collaboration in the Thai frozen shrimp chain by using a Confirm Factor Analysis (CFA) approach. this research adopted questionnaires with 5-point Likert scale as a tool to collect data. The sample used in this study consisted of 221 subjects, selected from shrimp agents, shrimp feed and shrimp equipment manufacturers, and freezing sections and processors in Songkhla province, Pattalung province, Nakhon Si Thammarat province, and Suratthani province, respectively. Using SPSS AMOS software to analyze data, the results showed main effect factors of supply chain collaboration composed of information sharing, decision synchronization, goal congruence, incentive alignment, resource sharing, collaboration communication, joint knowledge creation and trust. In addition, the results of the CFA analysis represented CMIN/df= 0.605, GFI = 0.984, AGFI = 0.974, CFI = 1.00 and RMSEA = 0.000. Therefore, the model can be acceptably conceptualized as a causal relationship construct model significantly. Finally, this model will apply to study and

will construct a guidance of an increasing of management performance in the Thai frozen shrimp supply chain.