What skills do you need to work in supply chain?
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The findings have generated additional supply chain skills to the academic literature as well as provided an understanding of the weighting of soft skills in terms of their importance and application to industry needs. | |
44 Citations | The results suggest that logistics and supply chain managers use business managerial, generic, and behavioral competences in practice rather than supply chain management expertise. |
34 Citations | The discussion suggests that supply‐chain... |
behavioural and people management skills), which may lead to articulation of supply chain soft skills training initiatives. | |
The findings have generated additional supply chain skills to the academic literature, in addition to providing an understanding of the weighting of skills in terms of their importance and application to industry needs. | |
Practical implications This research paper highlights the gaps in supply chain skills, which inevitably puts considerable pressure on operatives and managers whose responsibility it is to ensure compliance with regulations and professional bodies. | |
It would be beneficial to test whether the findings are exemplary across other supply chain courses and to investigate the integration of these skills within the supply chain syllabus and how employers, graduates and academic parties could actively engage in developing the agenda for future supply chain skills needs. | |
35 Citations | The results strongly support the relationship between technology and soft skills with supply chain manager capabilities. |
12 Citations | Supply chain network makes it possible to create an effective and helpful context for managing supply chain. |
97 Citations | This paper strengthens the ties between supply chain and human resource management by examining the competencies inherent in successful supply chain management systems. |