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The Growing Skills Gap & How Vocational Training Can Help to Shrink It

GlobalTranz

More manufacturers are turning toward vocational training and apprenticeship programs to help close the skills gap. According to The Huffington Pos t, a wide variety of apprenticeship programs focus on construction and manufacturing, creating a largely untapped resource of new skilled labor that manufacturers could easily access.

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TWI: Is it Time to Rethink Job Relations?

The Lean Thinker

Background TWI stands for Training Within Industry, a program developed during WWII by the U.S. Technicians, often very technically skilled, but inexperienced in leading people, were put into supervisory positions. Job Methods, teaching the skill of analyzing work with an eye to improve efficiency. War Manpower Commission.

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Polycrisis, Antifragility, and What’s Missing from Digital Transformation

Logistics Viewpoints

While the concept isn’t new, its application to supply chain is emerging, albeit without clear definition yet. A McKinsey study found that 90% of supply chain leaders expected to transform their planning systems. However, this learning requires large volumes of data to “train” the models.

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Executive guide to ERP Part 6: The operation stage

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Or, an ERP system is implemented but the organization fails to train its own people or hire sufficiently qualified people to operate the system. To prevent these problems from happening requires a clear and definite strategy to enable organizations to maintain the business benefits of the ERP system. Degradation.

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The Important Role of Apprenticeships

Logistics Business Magazine

Employers anticipate a big disruption in workers’ skills over the next five years that could threaten business transformation unless they invest in strategies to help develop the workforce. Investing in an apprenticeship scheme can be an effective way for businesses to grow talent and prevent skills gaps.

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The realities of logistics and strategic leadership: lessons from the ADF’s senior-most logisticians

Logistics in War

The introduction of capability has traditionally been influenced by a number of intellectual capital shortfalls including conceptual and analytical skills, policy writing skills bureaucratic skills, systems engineering, financial management and corporate risk management. The nature of military involvement.

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Ethics in Procurement – Simple, but Not Always Easy

Logistics Bureau

Your Italian company is negotiating the supply of aerospace products to a government in Asia. Immoral or illegal practices can include: Bribery: Payments in cash or in kind made to individuals or their friends, family, or partners to buy their support for a supplier or a contract negotiation. This is true.