ABSTRACT
The crucial role small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play in stimulating the economy of a nation, as well as their strategic importance, is often emphasised in research. More so, SMEs are usually unable to adopt supply chain best practices due to their inability to incorporate “collaborative supply chain approaches” and usually tend to rely on traditional adversarial practices. The Investment dictionary defines global supply chains as global networks between a company and its suppliers to produce and distribute specific product to the final buyer. Prior to the industrial revolutions across the world, most supply chains especially elements relating to manufacturing were mostly local and restricted to the countries of their operations. With the railroad fully established and running across nearly all states and counties in America with connections to neighbouring Mexico and Canada, cities and towns grew exponentially as did commerce.
