British Journal of Management and Marketing Studies ISSN: 2689-5072 Volume 7, Issue 1, 2024 (pp. 158-167) 158 Article DOI: 10.52589/BJMMS-EWYEX1YA DOI URL: https://doi.org/10.52589/BJMMS-EWYEX1YA www.abjournals.org ABSTRACT: The study examined the relationship between supply chain management and business performance of shipping firms in Port Harcourt. The study adopted quantitative research design using a correlational method of investigation. The population consists of 16 shipping firms in Port Harcourt. The study adopted census sampling and studied the entire 16 firms with focus on managers. The reliability of the instrument was determined using Cronbach's alpha test with the aid of Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 23 and it stood at 0.88 higher than the benchmark of 0.7. The data collected for this study were analyzed through inferential statistics. The Spearman Rank Correlation Technique was employed to test the various hypotheses formulated through the aid of Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). The results revealed that supply chain management is significantly and positively related with business performance of shipping firms in Port Harcourt. Based on the findings, it was concluded that supply chain management with its dimension of supply chain integration and reverse logistics will improve business performance of shipping firms in Port Harcourt on the basis of the results obtained from the analysis. The study recommends that shipping firms should adopt reverse logistics as this would ensure customer after-sale satisfaction which in turn results in improvement in business performance, and also, shipping firms should integrate their supplies as this would enable them to improve business performance. KEYWORDS: Supply chain management; Reverse Logistics; Supply chain integration; and Business Performance. SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT AND BUSINESS PERFORMANCE OF SHIPPING FIRMS IN PORT HARCOURT. Ifekanandu Chukwudi Christian 1 , Ihuoma Chukwudi Ifekanandu 2 Rennner Blessing Awaji-ima (Ph.D.) 3 and Lawrence Tochukwu Obalum (Ph.D.) 4 1 University of Nigeria (UNN) Business School, Enugu Campus, Enugu State, Nigeria. Email: chukwudiifekanandu12@gmail.com 2 National Open University of Nigeria 3 Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Port Harcourt, Rivers State Nigeria. Email: blessboyrenner@gmail.com, Tel.: 07063290865 4 Relationship Manager, Commercial Banking Division, Access Bank Plc Email: lobalum@gmail.com Cite this article: Ifekanandu C. C., Ihuoma C. I., Rennner B. A., Lawrence T. O. (2024), Supply Chain Management and Business Performance of Shipping Firms in Port Harcourt. British Journal of Management and Marketing Studies 7(1), 158- 167. DOI: 10.52589/BJMMS- EWYEX1YA Manuscript History Received: 27 Oct 2023 Accepted: 24 Jan 2024 Published: 16 Feb 2024 Copyright © 2024 The Author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), which permits anyone to share, use, reproduce and redistribute in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.