• Ikegwuru, Mac-Kingsley
• Harcourt, Horsfall

Abstract This study empirically investigates the impact of platform as a service on supply chain performance of retail petroleum marketing firms in Rivers State of Nigeria. The quantitative approach was adopted to investigate the influence of platform as a service on supply chain performance. T he survey approach was used as a measurement instrument, the simple random technique and a multi-item Likert scale anchored on five points response format were also utilized in the study. In order to make sure that the questions can be understood by the respondents, the questionnaire undergoes a pre-test and pilot test. The study field is the Retail Petroleum Marketing Industry in Rivers State of Nigeria and the respondents were 202 management staff of 55 retail petroleum marketing firms domiciled in Rivers State. The study espoused the Descriptive statistics; Simple Regression and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), through the usage of the statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) procedures to carry out data analysis. The results indicate that; platform as a service has a strong, significant influence on logistics process flexibility, order fulfillment and information sharing. The study concludes that platform as a service significantly and positively influence supply chain performance through logistics process flexibility, order fulfillment and information sharing, and recommends that Retail petroleum marketing firms should improve on the effectiveness of their logistics process flexibility, order fulfillment and information sharing to maximize supply chain performance triggered by platform as a service.

Key Words: Nigeria, Platform as a service, Retail petroleum marketing firms, supply chain performance

"Platform asa Service and supply chain Performance: Evidence from Nigerian Retail Petroleum Marketing firms", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 12, page no.232-245, December-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1912030.pdf

"Platform asa Service and supply chain Performance: Evidence from Nigerian Retail Petroleum Marketing firms", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 12, page no. pp232-245, December-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1912030.pdf