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Measuring supply chain management practices Ana Beatriz Lopes de Sousa Jabbour, Alceu Gomes Alves Filho,
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Adriana Backx Noronha Viana and Charbel Jose Chiappetta Jabbour

Ana Beatriz Lopes de
Sousa Jabbour is Assistant
Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering,
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Sao Paulo State University,
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Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Alceu Gomes Alves Filho is
Full Professor in Industrial
Engineering in the
Department of Industrial
Engineering, Federal
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University of Sao Carlos,
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Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Adriana Backx Noronha
Viana is Associate
Professor in Business
Administration and
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Charbel Jose Chiappetta
Jabbour is Assistant
Professor of Business
Administration, both at The
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University of Sao Paulo
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Business School – Ribeirao
Preto (FEA-RP/USP),
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Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Summary
Purpose – This paper aims to perform an empirical investigation about the constructs and indicators of the supply chain management practices framework.
Design/methodology/approach – The measuring framework proposed is based on a survey that was carried out on 107 Brazilian companies. Statistical techniques were employed to verify, validate, and test the reliability of the constructs and their indicators. To validate this framework principal component analysis and structural equation modeling techniques were used.
Findings – In general, previous studies suggest six constructs for measuring the supply chain management practices framework. However, in this study a framework was achieved with four constructs of supply chain management practices, namely, supply chain (SC) integration for production planning and control (PPC) support, information sharing about products and targeting strategies, strategic relationship with customer and supplier, and support customer order. This framework has adequate levels of validity and reliability.
Research limitations/implications – The main limitation of this study was that only a small sample of companies in a

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