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The world is changing and our approach to the supply chain workforce must do the same. Companies can only understand the world that they can see, and so hubs such as the UK SCALE Centre are essential for developing full visibility of the supply chain environment, enabling decision makers to make better informed choices.
Supply chain stakeholders often focus on large scale organisational or infrastructure projects which provide a broad basis to meet the needs of the economies and industries they are connected to.
These projects are the result of deep research and analysis of numerous factors. However, what is often missing is a lack of consideration for what sometimes appears to be a small element in all this planning – the individual workers and teams required to actually achieve these grand, strategic plans.
Many businesses have long relied on the assumption that improving workforce retention isn’t an important consideration, because there’s always a queue of workers waiting to replace the ones leaving. Contrary to this belief, generational shifts in attitudes to working, to job roles in transport, logistics and supply chains, together with the lasting impact of the pandemic, have meant that departing workers are not easy to replace.
Workers no longer embrace being ‘thrown in the deep end’ to work as they would have tolerated in times past. A more informed and considered approach is now required to get the best performance from workers.