Supplying Workforce Needs: The Creation of a National Center for Supply Chain Technology Education

1. Supplying Workforce Needs: The Creation of a National Center for Supply Chain Technology Education an Advanced Technological Education Center of the National Science Foundation Robert Sheehan, Tech Prep Program Manager Ned D. Young, Ph.D., Professor of Management and MIS

2. Outline of Today’s Presentation • Overview of supply chain technologies • Emerging employment opportunities • Members of the center • Objectives of the Center • Getting involved with the Center • Questions

3. What Are Supply Chain Technologies? Technologies that support business practices and improve the competitiveness of corporations and the effectiveness of government operations as they transport a product or service from supplier to customer.

4. Categories of Supply Chain Technology

5. A 21st Century WarehouseAutomated & Green • Robotic order fulfillment • Mobile robotic automation • Unmanned robotic forklifts • Hydrogen fuel cell forklifts • Moveable, programmable shelving units Skechers Warehouse Skechers Conveyers Skechers Robot Pickers

6. A 21st Century WarehouseInformation Technology • Wireless infrastructure • Bluetooth connectivity • Cloud-based IT • Web-based Warehouse Management Systems with graphical display dashboards • Geospatial systems (RFID and GPS, satellite uplink/downlink) IBM Food TrackingIBM Prescription Tracking

7. Technologies Supporting Production, Distribution & Retail • Digital imaging • LAN/Bluetooth • Portable printing • Speech recognition • 2D bar coding/RFID • Remote management • Real time location system • Wireless and device security • Voice/GPS communication integrated into rugged computers Retail Example

8. Our Partners Norco CollegeNorco, California Jefferson Community & Technical CollegeLouisville, KentuckyOakton Community CollegeDes Plaines, IllinoisSinclair Community CollegeDayton, OhioTacoma Community CollegeTacoma, Washington

9. Industry Partners

10. Employment Opportunities • 11.3 million supply chain technician workforce • 2008-2018 projected growth in supply chain technology jobs Norco Video

11. Increase the Number of supply chain technicians by 20,000 over four years

12. NCSCTE Objective 1 • Implement a model 2+2+2 career pathway through high school/community college/university partnerships to meet the industry’s needs for educated technicians. • Programs of study will be based on: • Supply-Chain Operations Reference model (Supply-Chain Council, 2008) • Transportation, Distribution, and Logistics Competency Model (U.S. Department of Labor, 2008) • Human Capital Strategy and Core Logistics Competencies and Proficiencies (U.S. Department of Defense, 2008).

13. “Pipeline” • Student-Centered • Partnerships & Relationship Management • Advisory Boards & Councils • Align curriculum (Articulations) • Mentorships/Internships/Co-ops • Capstones • Scholarships • Faculty development • Organizational Assessment

14. Curriculum Development ProcessBased on the TCP process • Research Future Career fields • Convene Futuring Panel • Draft Document • Convene Business/Industry/Labor Review Panel • Conduct Technical Educator Review • Conduct Stakeholder Review • Conduct Academic Alignment Review • Disseminate Career Field Standards • Document

17. NCSCTE Objective 2 • Increase the number of high school & college faculty participating in supply chain technology professional development. • Workshops • Webinars • Faculty training • Development & distribution of curriculum

18. NCSCTE Objective 3 • Disseminate best practices in training • Project Website: www.mindsthatmove.org • Best practice documents • White papers • Newsletters • Curricula • Sustainability through consulting

19. 16 Career Clusters

20. Educating the Customer:Strategies for Enhancing the Demand • Acquisitions/SCM brand-name recognition lower than Accounting, Marketing, Finance, MIS, Engineering. • Need to enhance the SCM field to employers as the core value-add in shaping, setting up and improving infrastructure of all activities • Promotion needed at all levels: individual programs, institutions, the “field” level

21. What’s in a Name? Everything!!! • There is a tremendous perception gap about the concept/content of the “SCM field” between academics and practitioners. • Case in point: GE hires engineers and trains them in concepts that we teach to our SCM graduates in business schools. • 25 executives from various industries, almost unanimous concern that recruiters don’t know exactly what SCM graduates can do. When they know, they hire SCM graduates over engineers in many careers.

22. Challenge for Acquisitions & SCM • Make Acquisitions & SCM a household name with “employers” • Champion the cause of Acquisitions & SCM within B-Schools and across campus: not “just as a research/academic” but “as a practical discipline with ultimate value-add to the economy and society” • Make Acquisitions & SCM a household name in “community colleges” • Make Acquisitions & SCM a household name in “K-12”: Why should high-school students and counselors equate business education with “just” accounting, marketing, and finance?

23. SCM WORK FORCE SUPPLY SCM WORK FORCE SUPPLY EXECUTIVE EDUCATION CAREER CHANGE ADVANCED EDUCATION BOTTOM-UP (ENTRY LEVEL) BOTTOM-UP (ENTRY LEVEL) TRADITIONAL TODAY’S NEEDS

24. <<< QUOTE, UNQUOTE>>> SUPPLY CHAIN INTEGRATION “Our job is less about moving paperwork and more about moving knowledge. It is less about bending metal and more about integrating systems. It is about joint and integrated endeavors.” -Department of Defense Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Kenneth J. Krieg, speaking at the September National Defense Industrial Association luncheon about his plans to adopt new business practices to improve supply chain management.

25. Questions? • Contact us at: • Bob Sheehan(937) 512-5161Robert.Sheehan@sinclair.edu • Ned D. Young(937) 512-2759ned.young@sinclair.edu