Supply chain management is applied by companies across the globe due to its demonstrated results such as delivery time reduction, improved financial performance, greater customer satisfaction, building trust among suppliers, and others. Companies that do not embrace information and communication tools in their supply chain suffer problems of workload, long lead time, responsiveness, consistence in quality and efficiency. The study was to access the impact of ICT on the supply chain management of seed companies. Fifty seed companies were purposively selected from the Gujarat state and 250 respondents randomly selected from these companies for the survey. Results show that all respondents indicated mobile phones reduce lead time. Majority of the respondents (83%) also affirmed they access seed information from ICT sources whiles 72.8 per cent of all the respondents also agreed that mobile phones actually reduce transportation cost for purchasing and enquiring about seed availability.
Information Communication Technology, Supply Chain Management, Lead time
