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STILL welcomes 64 new apprentices and students

Logistics Business Magazine

The new recruits are starting their training and study periods in six apprenticeships and three dual study programmes. “The training of qualified new talent has seldom been as important as it is at the moment,” emphasises Jan Wehlen, training manager at STILL. Innovators of tomorrow. Post-pandemic challenges.

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BIFA supports National Careers Week

Logistics Business Magazine

With youth unemployment remaining high and BIFA members concerned about the shortage of certain industry skills, there has never been a bigger need for careers guidance to be promoted. For BIFA, the week will commence with an online seminar entitled ’10 Reasons To Consider A Career In Logistics’ at 13.00 CET on 7th March. 00 GMT/15.00

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The strategic logistician and professional possibility

Logistics in War

During a logistics course in late 2017, I was asked to consider what the traits and behaviours of the strategic ‘future logistician’ might be. [1] Skills must be taught, modern technologies introduced and mastered, and logisticians exposed to business ‘best practice’. By David Beaumont. In some ways, however, VUCA is a euphemism.

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6 Practical Supply Chain Education Tools for Employers

Logistics Bureau

Of course, many of your hires may come to you with a ready-made supply chain education, but perhaps not all of them and besides, there is so much that can only be learned and made sense of outside the confines of academia. This situation is only likely to solidify as technology increasingly becomes the mainstay of supply chain management.

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Sustaining machines – the logistics of autonomy in military organisations

Logistics in War

This article is adapted from a presentation given at the Williams Foundation seminar on ‘Next Generation Autonomous Systems’ delivered in Canberra in April 2021. I suspect that electronics and componentry join ammunition and fuel as a marker of strategic resilience in due course. By David Beaumont. Part one can be found here.

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Supply Chain Education – The Most Effective Option

Logistics Bureau

Teaching and training people to get their supply chain roles right can therefore be a good return on investment, whether in terms of money, time or both. However, running a supply chain still depends largely on manual skills, aided by mechanical handling equipment and business technology, particularly that of a mobile nature.

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Continuing Education: What’s on the Menu?

247 Customs Broker

No matter how skilled or credentialed, today’s supply chain managers are hungry to learn—and want a variety of options to choose from. “They knew they could teach employees the skills they needed.” “We are seeing more and more enterprise-wide employee training,” says Sallstrom. Emphasis on onsite.