Logistics and Supply Chain Management – Profession of the 21st Century
MAGAZINE №6(89) December 2018
AUTHOR SERGEEV V.I.
CATEGORY Analytics and reviews Education in Logistics and SCM Human resource management and motivation
ABSTRACT
The article systematically covers and analyses methodological and practical problems in relation to a new specialization of “Logistics and supply chain management”. The article considers a wide range of issues connected with the main activity of logisticians and experts in supply chain management (SCM); with prestige of the profession / specialization; with opportunities of self-improvement, career development and alumni employment; as well as with supplementary post-graduate education. The article reveals advantages of using innovative (digital) technologies, information and computer-based systems and software products. The role of School of Logistics and the International Centre of Training in Logistics in establishment and development of this prospective specialization in Russia is shown.
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Personnel training and competence development in logistics
MAGAZINE №2 (73) April 2016
AUTHOR
BYBNOVA G.V. - Doctor of Economics, Professor, Head of the Department «Economics, organization of production and management», Scientific Director of the Centre of competence and management of the education quality, Emperor Nicholas II Moscow State University of Railway Engineering (Moscow, Russia)
CATEGORY Knowledge - force. Education in Logistics and SCM
ABSTRACT
The problems of professional and academic specialists in the logistics field as well as their absence of demand in several Russian regions define the topicality of learning services market and specialists, bachelors, magisters and candidates training programs research investigation.
In order to improve curriculums, the determination of logistics core competencies by scientific, educational spheres and business, it is primarily needed to analyze the learning services «offer», define specialists training centers, trends and topical directions of developing this research and practice knowledge field.
The data resources for holding this investigation were more than 800 official sites of higher educational establishments, data retrieval systems of Internet, the Ministry of Education data and field investigations results.
Expertly heuristic searching methods, statystical data analysis methods allowed to state the nonuniformity of training centers in federal districts, the appearance if new profiles in the several fields, such as «Dealing», «Economics», «Business informatics» and so on.
The results of employers’ requirements requests, competencies models of logistic companies analysis allow to conclude that it is necessary to prepare «specialized» logisticians, who will be able to solve not only operational tasks, but to manage dynamic processes with the help of such tools as re-engineering, rational business models and value creation chains design for different categories of logistic services.
Weak interaction of institutional organizations, Research and Development Establishments, Russian higher educational establishments with manufacturing, trading and service companies concerning the questions of international and national logistic infrastructure formation and the implementation of logistics and supply chain management innovative technologies define the necessity efforts consolidation and non-profit partnership creation – The competence center in the logistic field.
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