Science and Education Publishing Journal of Business and Management Sciences 1 1 2013 11 03 The Impact of Resource Commitment, Product Route Efficiency on Supply Chain Performance and Profitability: An Empirical Case Analysis 105 111 EN Kelly Weeks Department of Maritime Administration, Texas A & M University at Galveston, Galveston, Texas Joan Mileski JBMS2013154 10.12691/jbms-1-5-4 2013 07 16 2013 10 30 2013 11 03 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.