May 2007
Do You Actually Make Time For Training
To be successful on a global market companies have to find and retain talent. This is underlined by recent research by Europhia Consulting.
However, the market for training has become a jungle in which it is hard to orientate oneself and to filter out training programs that actually provide the company and its employees with knowledge and skills based training. Instead the market is full of events and symposia, which are good for networking but often do not offer detailed insight into key supply chain subjects.
So what is the key differentiator between short supply chain training courses and events? Training is an important tool to provide employees with a personal development path. Companies can offer employees an opportunity to develop themselves through education. Furthermore, companies have to ensure that their key employees are working at the highest level of supply chain developments in order to stay ahead with fast changing markets and requirements.
As the speed, depth and scope of global supply chain developments rise, the day-to-day work of mid and higher-level management professionals have become more complex and demanding. Many professionals feel that they actually have less time to meet the many challenges and they have even less time to learn than ever before.
Like other sectors, supply chain professionals also require in-depth training from time to time in order to gain the knowledge and skills needed for the challenges the global market poses. A training that stays on the surface of a topic will not allow the professional to understand the dynamics behind processes and developments. These dynamics are decisive as "enabler" to implement and manage successful supply chain change.
At a University level a lot of international research is done in order to improve key areas of supply chain management within many companies. Working closely together with the industry on key projects, University research often has an impact on the bottom line of the companies. Therefore, learning directly from key subject experts provides a unique combination to develop personal skills and improve company performance at the same time.
The SC Executive Training Program provides this unique combination. In 4 training workshops University Professors from the Technical University of Eindhoven in the Netherlands present key topics of supply chain management. The participants are presented best practice case studies from leading companies in an interactive manner. This provides them with the latest knowledge in key areas of work and gives them the opportunity to apply this knowledge within their company to further improve their company's supply chain with regards to increasing value, reducing costs, and improving customer services.
For more information about the SC Executive Training Program in collaboration with the European Supply Chain Forum from the Technical University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands please visit http://scexecutive.com/.
