eng Science and Education Publishing Journal of Business and Management Sciences 2013-11-03 1 1 105 111 10.12691/jbms-1-5-4 JBMS2013154 article Kelly Weeks weeksk@tamug.edu 1 Joan Mileski 1 Department of Maritime Administration, Texas A & M University at Galveston, Galveston, Texas This study examines the impact of resource commitment and product route efficiency on supply chain performance of the firm through operations management. The firm’s profitability is impacted by the commitment made by its management on resources and also by product route efficiency of transporting goods to its customers. Sixteen hundred survey instruments were mailed to the scrap steel industry with 277 of the 307 returned being useable. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was utilized to test each related hypothesis. http://pubs.sciepub.com/jbms/1/5/4/jbms-1-5-4.pdf supply chain & logistics operations management resource commitment product route efficiency profitability