Abstract

This paper looks at the role of Smart Capacity Management in enhancing Production Resilience in case of Supply Chain Disruptions in Iraqi manufacturing companies. Conducted with the structured questionnaire to 207 managers and experts in the sphere of production, operations, planning, supply chain, procurement, maintenance, and quality, the study measures the quality of measurements, characterizing respondents, and testing the hypotheses with the help of moderation regression and structural equation models. The levels of reliability were good in all constructs with the Cronbach alpha values of Smart Capacity Management of 0.904, Supply Chain Disruptions of 0.846 and Production Resilience of 0.922, and general instrument of 0.915. The KMO high values and significant Bartletts tests validated construct validity and made it suitable to be analyzed as a factor. Descriptive findings showed that smart capacity practices were highly adopted and perceived resilience was also high, with a significant exposure to disruption. The results of the regression revealed that the positive and significant influence of Smart Capacity Management on Production Resilience is significant, whereas Supply Chain Disruptions has significant negative direct influence. The interaction term was positive and significant which means that the resilience benefits of smart capacity practices are enhanced with increasing disruption intensity. The same pattern was observed in SEM results, which also provided a strong fit of the model and a significant explained variance of resilience. The paper concludes that evidence-based, rapid, and synchronous decision-making on capacities is vital in ensuring continuity and recovery acceleration during the condition of disruption in Iraq.