Supply chain collaboration of Ghana's gold mining industry

The gold mining industry contributes about 41% of Ghana's export earnings, generating about 14% as tax revenue and a total of 5.5% gross domestic product (GDP). It is essential to salvage the industry's image. Employees of the industry can be laid off and made redundant because the industry's financial position is almost always affected during critical moments. This in most cases result in the holding up of suppliers' payments and operations grinding to a halt due to procurement, logistics and inventory issues. In light of this, an empirical study is being conducted with the aim of identifying the factors of supply chain collaboration in Ghana's mining industry. Mixed methods were used including a purposive sampling method which was used with survey questionnaires administered on eleven operational mining companies in Ghana. SPSS tool was used in the analysis of data. Semi-structured interviews were conducted at the mines site (company premises) in September 2019 in Ghana. The results identified some factors that affect the collaborative supply chain. These are the pricing of products and service, variable payment systems, open book, the share of company values, and consolidation of orders. Identifying these factors contribute to existing literature which makes this study unique as they have not been discovered in any of the supply chain literature in the context of gold mining. A framework in supply chain collaboration was developed, which is unique to the gold mining sector in Ghana. The result will have managerial implications to drive the gold mining industry's performance forward. Mining organisations will benefit from this study as this can be replicated in other gold mining sectors in Africa and across the globe's mining industry.