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This study examined the direct and moderating relationships between operational management capabilities, specifically process efficiency capability, process integration capability, operational flexibility and procurement performance among manufacturing firms in Ghana. The study adopted a quantitative cross-sectional survey design. A total of three hundred and fifty (350) procurement officials from fifty (50) manufacturing firms were selected for the study. Stratified and purposive sampling techniques were used in the selection of manufacturing firms and procurement officials, respectively. Questionnaires were used in the data collection, and data were analyzed using Partial Least Squares (PLS) Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). For direct effects, the study showed that a non-significant positive relationship exists between process integration capability and procurement performance. However, a significant positive relationship was found to exist between process efficiency capability and procurement performance. The study also found that operational flexibility does not moderate the relationship between process integration capability and procurement performance. Meanwhile, operational flexibility negatively moderates the relationship between process efficiency capability and procurement performance among manufacturing firms in Ghana. The results of the study highlight the importance of developing robust process efficiency capabilities for improved procurement outcomes, while also suggesting a careful balance in operational flexibility initiatives to avoid inefficiencies among manufacturing firms. The study contributes to the dynamic capabilities theory and provides practical implications for manufacturing firms seeking to optimize their procurement strategies.

Skills are important qualities that procurement practitioners should have because they are relevant to procurement activities. Given its significance, this study investigates the influence of procurement skills on procurement performance in public organizations in Tanzania. Furthermore, the study investigates the mediating effect of procurement planning on the relationship between procurement skills and procurement performance. A cross-sectional study was conducted, with data collected from public procurement practitioners in Dodoma City, Tanzania, using a structured questionnaire. To ascertain the hypothesized relationships, structural equation modeling was used. The findings indicate that procurement skills have a positive and significant influence on procurement performance in Tanzanian public organizations. Furthermore, procurement skills and procurement planning are significant and positively related and procurement planning significantly influences procurement performance. Finally, procurement skills have an indirect influence on procurement performance through procurement planning. The study concludes that procurement planning mediates the relationship between procurement skills and procurement performance. Therefore, procurement skills should be used to improve procurement planning in public organizations and procurement performance. In this regard, public organizations should ensure that practitioners are adequately trained to improve their skills in preparing and implementing procurement plans for improving procurement performance in their respective organizations.

This paper investigates the relationship between supplier development and procurement performance in the public sector. Furthermore, the paper examines the moderating role of contract management difficulty on the relationship between supplier development and procurement performance. Using cross-sectional data collected from 179 public procuring entities, the main findings of the study are two-fold. Firstly, the relationship between supplier development and procurement performance in public sector is positive and significant (Ø = 0.2343 and p = 0.0014). Also, contract management difficulty negatively and significantly moderates the relationship between supplier development and procurement performance (Ø = −0.1447 and p = 0.0190). In this aspect, the influence of supplier development on procurement performance is negatively affected by contract management difficulties. The study contributes to the supplier management, procurement performance, and contract management literature by providing empirical evidence on the role of supplier development on procurement performance in developing countries like Tanzania. Also, the conditional effects of contract management difficulty on the relationship between supplier development and procurement performance matter. The study's findings have important implications for procurement practitioners in the public sector and policy makers.

PurposeElectronic procurement has received primacy as one of the significant reforms to help fight corruption and inefficiencies in the public sector across countries. The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of electronic procurement adoption on procurement performance. Additionally, the paper examines the moderating role of institutional quality in the relationship between electronic procurement and procurement performance.Design/methodology/approachThe study applied an explanatory design and a quantitative research approach. Also, the study relied on UTAUT and institutional theory to develop a test research model using 121 responses from public entities in Ghana. Hypothesised paths were investigated using structural equation modelling.FindingsThe findings revealed that electronic procurement adoption positively and significantly affects procurement performance. Also, the findings indicated that institutional quality positively and significantly affects electronic procurement adoption and procurement performance, respectively. Lastly, the findings proved that institutional quality moderates the relationship between electronic procurement adoption and procurement performance.Research limitations/implicationsThe study focused on public procurement entities in the Greater Accra Region – Ghana. The study contributes to adopting electronic procurement, institutional quality, and procurement performance literature. The study also extends the UTAUT and the institutional theory to African public entities. The study reechoes the importance of institutional quality in developing economies to enhance electronic procurement adoption.Originality/valueTo the best of the researcher’s knowledge, this is the first study that examines the moderating role of institutional quality in the relationship between electronic procurement adoption and procurement performance.

PurposeThis paper employs the positivism paradigm, quantitative approach and explanatory research design. It analyses primary data obtained from manufacturing firms via structured questionnaires and uses the partial least square-structural equation modelling technique to establish the effect of individual procurement process risk on procurement performance.Design/methodology/approachProcurement risks are inevitable in manufacturing procurement process; a situation that could undermine the performance of manufacturing firms if not properly managed. Yet, with procurement accounting of about 14–19% of developing countries gross domestic product, the effects of procurement process risk on performance remain scarce in manufacturing firms in developing countries. Therefore, the paper aims to investigate the effect of procurement process risk on procurement performance of manufacturing firms.FindingsIn this paper, five out of the six procurement process risks studied were found to be undermining procurement performance of manufacturing firms significantly. However, the risk threshold effect on the performance differs.Research limitations/implicationsAlthough this research is geographically/sector bias, several insightful managerial implications can be drawn to manage procurement process risk in manufacturing settings irrespective of the area of operation. The results of this research imply that manufacturing firms' procurement process is risk prone and the effect of risk surrounding each procurement process on procurement performance differs. Hence, the need to identify and analyse the risks surrounding each procurement process before making managerial decision to spend firms limited resources in response to the individual risk to improve procurement performance in the manufacturing sector.Originality/valueThis paper is the first to provide existing and future procuring practitioners/firms with in-depth empirical evidence of the effect of the procurement process risks on procurement performance in manufacturing firms operating in developing economies.

Public procurement occupies a key role in government departments and public entities. Supplier selection, a sub-function of procurement, has become one of the elementary roles of procurement managers since it virtually affects any industry’s competitiveness. Therefore, selecting suitable suppliers brings substantial benefits to enterprises and increases customer satisfaction. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between supplier selection practices, supplier risk management, supplier commitment, and procurement performance in the public health industry in Gauteng province. The survey material was designed in a structured questionnaire to measure the study constructs.  The collected quantitative data were analysed using the SMART-PLS 3 structural equation modelling procedure. The study results showed positive and significant relationships amongst all variables except for one. Supplier risk management had a weak and insignificant connection with procurement performance. The results are essential to the existing literature on procurement performance within public health industries in developing countries such as South Africa. The study concludes by suggesting recommendations for limiting the impact of the identified challenges on procurement performance.

Power enterprises face unique procurement challenges, including grid reliability requirements, regulatory complexities, and long-term asset investment considerations that existing evaluation methods inadequately address. Traditional approaches suffer from three critical limitations: inability to handle linguistic uncertainty (consistency ratios often exceeding 0.15), failure to integrate power-specific criteria simultaneously, and lack of systematic frameworks for aggregating conflicting stakeholder objectives. This study develops a comprehensive multi-dimensional evaluation model by integrating Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP) and TOPSIS methodologies specifically tailored for power enterprise contexts. The proposed framework achieves 23% improved consistency ratios compared to traditional AHP methods while systematically addressing uncertainty in expert judgments. The model constructs a hierarchical evaluation system encompassing four primary dimensions: cost-benefit performance, quality management, supplier relationship management, and risk control. FAHP handles subjective expert judgments and linguistic uncertainties in weight determination, while TOPSIS provides robust ranking capabilities through distance-based proximity measures. Empirical validation through a large regional power enterprise case study demonstrates model effectiveness. Results show a comprehensive closeness coefficient of 0.6651, positioning the enterprise at the 73rd industry percentile with strengths in quality management and improvement opportunities in supplier relationship development. Multi-dimensional sensitivity analysis across five uncertainty sources confirms model robustness, with coefficient variations within ± 5.7% and 96.3% ranking stability. Cross-validation with three peer enterprises (closeness coefficients ranging 0.5834–0.7245) demonstrates 91.3% performance gap identification accuracy. The integrated framework provides enhanced analytical capabilities for strategic procurement decision-making and continuous improvement initiatives in power enterprises.

PurposeThis study was steered to establish how buyer–supplier collaboration's commitment attributes serve as an antecedent for procurement performance in large manufacturing entities in Tanzania.Design/methodology/approachA parallel, concurrent, mixed method was used in the study. Quantitatively, 52 firms were surveyed from Temeke Municipality, Tanzania, using questionnaire that specified 1 procurement manager and 1 store manager from those firms, totaling a sample size of 104 respondents. Qualitatively, expressive opinions to supplement the numeric data were gathered from supply chain managers using the saturation principle. Explanatory design analyzed the existing cause–effect relationship, and the null hypotheses were tested using binary logistic regression at p values < 0.05 and ExpB > 1.FindingsFidelity and enthusiasm to suggest improvements to suppliers and the duration of the collaboration antecede the procurement performance of the manufacturing firms in Tanzania, while devotion to invest resources and initiatives on joint problem solving have no significant impact.Research limitations/implicationsThe causality between buyer–supplier collaboration and procurement performance has been revealed. Since there might be third party logistics in collaborations, future research should center on their moderating effect.Practical implicationsA framework has been developed for liberating procurement performance in the context of large manufacturing firms in Tanzania.Originality/valueBased on Transaction Cost Economics and Resource Dependency Theories, the study revealed the root cause of procurement performance in the context of Tanzanian manufacturing firms, while also considering commitment to buyer–supplier collaboration as a prerequisit for the commendable target.

Purpose Procuring relief products and services is a challenging process for humanitarian organizations (HOs), yet it accounts for approximately 65% of relief operations’ costs (Moshtari et al., 2021). This paper aims to examine how procurement internal controls, materials and purchasing procedure standardization influence information integration and procurement performance. Design/methodology/approach In this study, partial least square structural equation models and multigroup analysis were used to analyze data collected from 170 HOs. Findings Procurement internal controls and material and purchasing procedure standardization fully mediate between information integration and procurement performance. Research limitations/implications The study focuses only on HOs. Since humanitarian procurement projects take place over a period of several years, it is difficult to capture the long-term effects of information integration, procurement internal controls, material and purchasing procedure standardization and procurement performance. In this regard, a longitudinal study could be undertaken, provided that the required resources are available. Practical implications Procurement managers should implement information integration practices within acceptable procurement internal controls and standardize material and purchasing procedures to boost procurement performance. Originality/value By integrating information through procurement internal controls and standardizing material and purchasing procedures, procurement performance in a humanitarian setting can be systematically optimized.

The research aims to examine the impact of supplier development on procurement performance, taking into consideration contract management difficulties as a moderating variable. The research method section of the study employs a cross-sectional research design. In this survey technique, a questionnaire is employed to collect primary data from 220 respondents from the purchasing department via Google Forms through an adopted questionnaire. The initial step in our analysis was to clean and analyse the data using SPSS and SmartPLS 3 software, then incorporate structural equation modelling (SEM) to conduct our analysis. The findings confirmed that supplier development affects procurement performance. In addition to this, the contract management difficulties suggested a negative and significant impact on procurement performance. Furthermore, the relationship between supplier development and procurement performance is moderated by contract management difficulty. These unique findings highlight the importance of supplier development and effective contract management in improving procurement performance in the textile industry. The work’s implementation of transaction cost theory to analyse how supplier development impacts sourcing capability is recognized as the primary theoretical contribution.