o:2406 MEASUREMENT OF THE SUPPLY CHAIN PERFORMANCES IN THE FUNCTION OF IMPROVING COMPETITIVENESS OF THE COMPANIES IN TOPLICA DISTRICT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA en The purpose of the work is to identify and evaluate a) the influence supply chain performance has on acquiring and maintaining the concreteness and competitiveness of entities (companies) that comprise it and b) involvement level of Toplica district companies in supply chains measured as a degree of implementing performance measurement systems into their supply chains.Identification and evaluation are based on an analysis of information from relevant scientific sources, and results of empiric research. Considering that the competition between individual companies is replaced more and more with competition between supply chains the quality of management with supply chains is crucial for the value that it generates for stakeholders and end users. System of measurement performances has to be designed the way it creates and keeps competitiveness of all subjects in supply chain as well as competitiveness of the chain itself. Within the process of the performance management balancing has to be done on many levels, whereby designing of the performances measurement system has to be carried out, not only because of the needs of certain company, but also because of the needs of all stakeholders in supply chain.Taking into account the fact that supply chains include more companies, there is a need for each company to design its own performance measurement system that will suit its business and that will be derived from the performance measurement system of the entire supply chain. An excellent designed supply chain performances measurement system significantly improves competitiveness of the companies.The supply chain performance measurement system must be created to meet the balance requirement on a number of grounds. It represents the base for managing with supply chain process and a long term increase of their competitiveness. Thematic collection of paper: „Enhancing Competitiveness of National Economies and Enterprises“: pp. 143-160, Faculty of Economics, University of Niš supply chain, values chain, performances measurement system, competitiveness, performances criteria 1552100 978‐86‐6139‐183‐5 2024-03-10T13:17:05.790Z 44 yes 46 Goran Milovanović Faculty of Economics, University of Niš 2019 46 Milenko Tanović Innovation Center, University of Niš 0000-0003-0733-4954 application/pdf 3254195 https://phaidrani.ni.ac.rs/o:2406 no yes 18 70 1556235 18A15