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Top courses to upskill manufacturers

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

And to be more efficient, manufacturers need to ensure that their workforce’s skillsets stay relevant, which means providing them with meaningful and continuous education and training. Industries need to continuously bridge the skills gap whilst retaining their current workforce.

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International trade course launched by Globalia

Logistics Business Magazine

With the aim of broadening its members’ skills and knowledge, Globalia Logistics Network has launched its Online Logistics Academy. Globalia Logistics Network has inaugurated its online academy with the International Transportation and Trade Course and it has been an outstanding success.

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Acing the drone obstacle course

World Food Programme Logistics

‘Let’s Fly’ immersive pedagogy builds confidence along with skill in Ethiopia On a bright May morning, the Addis Ababa Golf Club looks like it is readying for a children’s birthday party with red flags and yellow cones arranged in circles, squares and lines. Photo: WFP/Elizabeth Millership In less than 30 minutes, the group has been briefed on safety, given an overview of the training, divided into four groups. training-courses emergency-response drones ethiopia

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How training and tools turned one mother from fruit buyer to fruit seller

World Food Programme Logistics

WFP’s livelihood programmes in Ethiopia are helping refugee families help themselves with new agricultural skills Story by Edward Johnson Nyangun’s garden is flourishing. With basic courses and the provision of tools, families like Nyangun’s are able to reap a nutritious future.

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Conqueror partners with CIFFA to offer freight forwarding courses

Logistics Business Magazine

Conqueror Freight Network , the largest exclusive network worldwide, in a bid to offer members the most necessary and innovative benefits, has opened an Online Academy to provide freight forwarding courses. These courses have been completed by more than 10,000 learners globally.

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7 Key Supply Chain Leaders’ Skills and Why You Need Them

Logistics Bureau

What are the essential skills you need to possess or develop if you want to become one of tomorrow’s supply chain leaders? In any case, an excellent place to start is by knowing what the most vital supply chain leaders’ skills are and, of course, why you need them.

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‘How training in digital and English-language skills changed my life’

World Food Programme Logistics

Yasser’s training meant he would no longer have to sell balloons in the street. His English-language skills come in handy dealing with international clients. Later, I got an opportunity to work in a kitchen as a butcher again and I developed my skills enough to end up as a general chef.

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Resources for Women in the Skilled Trades

WorkWave

show ] What Are the Skilled Trades? labor force has been a complicated narrative, especially in skilled trades. What Are the Skilled Trades? Skilled trades play an active and important role in the daily lives of people and society as a whole. Time To Read: 14 minutes.

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Encarna Invests in Hyundai and Expands Forklift Training Courses

Logistics Business Magazine

France-based Encarna Formation specialises in operator training for a wide range of construction machinery, which includes, forklift operators and truck mounted aerial platform drivers. So, we had to move if we wanted to continue to carry out CACES training.

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Forklift Safety Training: The Ultimate Guide

Conger

This is the ultimate guide to forklift safety training. By the end of this article, you’ll learn: Why forklift operator safety training is important. OSHA’s training requirements. Where to get forklift operator training. Why Is Forklift Operator Training Important?

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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. Vocational Training Blends On-the-Job Training With Education. Manufacturing Skills Gap

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Industry 4.0: Building the right skills to meet the factory of the future

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

It does present a training requirement, the need for new skills for industry 4.0 Of course, robotics does not tell the full story, as the world of manufacturing has evolved even further over the last few decades, with the rise of data and smart, autonomous systems.

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Top 14 Logistics and Supply Chain Management Training Programs and Courses in 2016

GlobalTranz

Today, Kelly shares the top 14 Logistics and Supply Chain Management training programs and courses available in 2016. To protect yourself and your business I offer you to take a look at this list of top programs and courses that will take place in 2016, which will help you to understand main concepts of this powerful tool and learn how to successfully apply it on practice. University Courses. 1) Course in E Logistics and Supply Chain Management by National University.

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Opinion: pharma sector needs logistics skills

Logistics Business Magazine

And it’s hardly surprising, as wider skill sets from pertinent related sectors will be needed. Changes in ownership invariably trigger reviews of business strategies and consequent reassessment of whether the right skills and expertise are in place to achieve the new goals.

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RTITB launches pivot steer truck training materials

Logistics Business Magazine

RTITB has released updated training materials to help improve rider-operated Pivot Steer truck safety through high-quality training. It also prepares candidates for the RTITB Basic Operating Skills Test. “We All elements must be passed to successfully complete the course.

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If There’s a Manufacturing Skills Gap, How Do We Close It? 4 Ways to Combat the Gap

GlobalTranz

The manufacturing skills gap, which we first defined here , is a real threat to the future of the U.S. More skilled workers are retiring than ever before, up to 10,000 baby boomers daily. However, manufacturers can work to reduce the overall manufacturing skills gap by following these four steps. 4 Ways to Combat the Manufacturing Skills Gap. Education continues to be a focal point of the manufacturing skills gap, but not just any education will suffice.

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Transaid launches driver training project in Mozambique

Logistics Business Magazine

Transaid is preparing to support refresher training for at least 400 heavy goods vehicle drivers within small and medium-size enterprises (SME) in Mozambique, just a few months after securing a contract to extend its professional driver training work into yet another sub-Saharan country.

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Are your L&D programs reaping the outcomes you need?

UL EHS- Sustainability

We’ve all been there—days spent away from our jobs completing required training programs that ultimately left us disappointed, confused, marginalized and with no new learning assets. But the most successful learning and development teams also understand how to measure the success of each training course and react accordingly. Traditional training models address performance issues only when there is a lack of knowledge and skills.

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How to Expand Your Knowledge with Online Training for Truckers

United World Transporation

Continue reading below to find out how to expand your knowledge with online training on the road. Why Continue Training? Training is often considered a punishment because drivers only get trained if they did something wrong. What Can I Learn to Improve My Skills?

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Weaving a tapestry of skills

World Food Programme Logistics

With German funding, WFP-supported sewing classes are stitching skills and ambition together in Lebanon There are 18 women in a classroom, surrounded by a colourful sea of fabric, needles, spools of thread and scissors. Photo: WFP/Edward Johnson For three days a week over two months, the women attend the blended theoretical and practical haberdashery classes in MAPS’ training centre in the Bekaa Valley. This course is unique as?—?unlike

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Bridging the Manufacturing Skills Gap on the Plant Floor

GlobalTranz

According to Polytron , the manufacturing skills gap is estimated to grow to 3.5 Unfortunately, fewer workers leads to high pressures on consumers, existing technologies, engineers, skilled workers and oversight. In other words, the manufacturing skills gap is brewing a cauldron of dangers and profit losses, and you need to understand a few things about bridging the gap in factory settings. Training Can Be Part of Workforce Development Strategies.

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Reach truck training goes online

Logistics Business Magazine

RTITB ’s innovative eTruck UK online eLearning program can now be used to train reach truck operators, as well as counterbalance lift truck operators, in less time. The eLearning solution is designed for novice theory training.

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The smart factory Part 4: What skills do manufacturers and distributors need in the factory of the future?

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Let’s take a look at these new hybrid skills needed that combine technology and data expertise, and what this means for manufacturers and distributors as they transition into smart factories: Skillsets that drive innovation in the smart factory.

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Skillfully Managing Manufacturing Reshoring Projects

GlobalTranz

These “Bring Manufacturing Back” initiatives have many moving parts and require careful planning and execution and very skillful project management. location they had chosen didn’t have the skilled workers that they needed. Finding Skilled Workers/Accessing Markets & Suppliers. However, failure to account for the existing skills of workers in the geographic area may be a major disaster to your reshoring efforts.

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5 Skills Necessary For Maximizing Logistics Effectiveness

GlobalTranz

In this article, I propose to have a look at several logistic skills that, besides the specific knowledge in this area, will help to maximize the logistics effectiveness. When employees are trained to communicate with clients and team members without reserves, to avoid conflicts between professional activity and personal attitude, demonstrate professionalism in oppressive situations, this is integrity that leads to supply chain efficiency.

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Northants jobseekers benefit from free logistics training

Logistics Business Magazine

A group of job seekers from Northamptonshire will be the first people in the UK to benefit from the Prologis Warehousing and Logistics Training Programme (PWLTP) when they take part in a pilot training session for the initiative.

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Skills Gap: Why It’s Creating New Manufacturing Opportunities

GlobalTranz

manufacturing industry faces a serious crisis, the skills gap. Unfortunately, the skills gap only appears to be growing worse, but it is creating several groundbreaking manufacturing opportunities. . Since the skills gap reflects changes in how manufacturers operate, it represents the opportunity for manufacturers to re-evaluate their current factory processes, including a wide, diverse group of job positions, explains ThomasNet.

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Training the Australian Army’s logistics officers – a new LIW series

Logistics in War

Logistics in War has contended with the topic of training, and the preparation of logisticians for a variety of operational and garrison possibilities. Contributors from the US Army’s Logistics University, Chris Paparone and George Topic , have also described operational complexities and new training requirements that should be attended to as a consequence. This scenario now applies to the Australian Army, and the training of its logistics officers. PME / Training

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Dachser Continues its Commitment to Training

Logistics Business Magazine

At the start of the 2020 training year, 600 trainees and 25 students across Germany took the first step on their career paths at Dachser. We view training as a long-term commitment. Dachser has traditionally placed great value on high-quality training with knowledge sharing and support.

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Five ways to upskill your HGV drivers

Logistics Business Magazine

Road transport is a heavily regulated industry so there are naturally several mandatory training requirements, depending on the work being carried out. HGV training and recruitment expert, Driver Hire Training , has revealed some top tips for keeping your drivers’ skills fresh.

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Reforming logistics training: themes, challenges and the quest for the ideal

Logistics in War

A common trend found in the literature of military logistics is the decrying of training and education gaps interspersed within the persuasive arguments for greater military interest in logistics. The Australian Army has worked hard in recent years to improve the quality of its individual training, much as Thorpe desired of the USMC his work. Challenge 2 – train the logistician to support capability creation and readiness, and not just operations. PME / Training

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£500,000 of funding available to retrain in international trade

Logistics Business Magazine

The IOE&IT is the UK’s leading professional body for those involved in international trade, and is ready to help companies with skills shortages and those facing a change in circumstances as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Step into International Trade training course.

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5 Skills Needed for Radical Supply Chain and Logistics Collaboration

GlobalTranz

Most of us have taken a course in basic business, and the first thing you are told is to write and sign a contract. This is of course true, but it also overstates the value of a written contract relative to other aspects of the relationship. This principle says nothing about how to earn the trust needed to get someone to agree to a contract or how to negotiate a viable contract. 5 Skills Needed for Radical Supply Chain and Logistics Collaboration.

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5 Ways 3PL Sales Has Changed and What You Can Do About It with Ann Holm

The Logistics of Logistics

We also learn about a sales improvement course specifically for people in the logistics industry that Joe and Ann are co-facilitating. 02:38 – #1: Internet has given buyers unprecedented access to product and industry information. More control for the buyer. Buying processed controlled by buyer. Buyers will zone out – daydream if you can’t engage them. Mentioned Resources: 21st Century Sales Skills for Transportation and Logistics Professionals (Podcast).

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“These are the first skills I’ve learned.” Empowering women in the world’s largest refugee camp

World Food Programme Logistics

Meet women and girls who are becoming leaders in their households and communities Laila Khatun repairs a mobile phone, a skill she learned through WFP’s self-reliance project (Photo: Gemma Snowdon/WFP). The mother of four has been taking part in mobile phone repair training through the World Food Programme’s (WFP) self-reliance project. Laila is proud of the skills she has learnt. I can also learn sewing but I like this course. These are the first skills I’ve learned.”

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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. The challenge, of course, is that nobody owns this material.

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Cooperative Logistics Network now offering e-learning

Logistics Business Magazine

To this end, the E-Learning Platform has been inaugurated with two courses specialised in international logistics and freight forwarding and a SOC Masterclass focused on Shipper Owned Containers. These training programmes can be completed at the students’ suitable pace.

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