One Consultant's View on Supply Chain Education
As I indicated in a prior post, I met recently with David Sievers, a principal at Archstone Consulting, a firm that co-wrote this piece we ran back in January.
One topic that came up was an online survey conducted by a committee of corporations and AMR Research that is attempting to determine, among other things, where the college graduates with the best supply chain management skills were coming from.
One executive I spoke to at the time said he and his company were interested in the study because they were tired of hiring people who didn’t seem to have the requisite supply chain skills.
Sievers was careful not to say the survey was a bad idea, but he stressed that supply chain management is by its very nature a very amorphous beast, this despite well-meaning and helpful efforts by the Supply Chain Council to define it through the SCOR model.
The concept of supply chain management, by many definitions, varies widely from industry to industry, and even from company to company, making it tough to come up with a good general-purpose education program for any educational institution. In other words, Sievers told me, you’ll never be able to have a college program that will churn out a tailor-made supply chain manager who will be able to seamlessly integrate into your business model. It’s never a bad idea for corporations and universities to work together to seek out a better college program, he said, but no company should ever kid itself into thinking that no in-house training will be necessary, or that new graduates still won’t have some sort of learning curve when they first arrive.
An interesting perspective, one which makes some degree of sense to me. What do you think? Post your comments and join the discussion!
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