Talent Management

The discount retailer has poached Arthur Valdez, a 16-year veteran of Amazon.com, to head its supply chain and logistics operations as it looks to better integrate its stores with its fast-growing online digital e-commerce initiatives.

A competency model is a roadmap for seeking and developing ideal employees. In short, it defines the criteria guiding HR processes such as recruitment and selection, training and development, and compensation.

2015 was a record year for job creation by Amazon in Europe with over 10,000 new permanent jobs, bringing the company’s total European workforce to over 40,000 - Amazon has invested over €15 billion in Europe since 2010 on infrastructure and operations and fulfillment.

Besides the difficulty of finding skilled leadership in a constantly evolving, highly technical, and increasingly global environment, supply chain faces an additional sensitivity to issues of attracting and retaining talent.

Procurement offers millennials the opportunity to learn the business from end-to-end, secure executive exposure, and have a significant impact on business performance.

Supply chain talent is in short supply worldwide, and as the automotive sector grows, this resource problem will only get worse.

While demand for transportation workers will vary by region, subsector, and occupation, there will be a large number of job openings for high-skill and middle-skill workers across the transportation industry.

U.S. Departments of Transportation, Education, and Labor has released a joint transportation jobs report indicating that transportation industry growth will add 417,000 skilled and semi-skilled job openings from 2012 to 2022.

A new development in addressing the current “talent gap” in the supply chain workforce has been recently addressed from APICS Supply Chain Council with the release of their latest industry research.

While much has been written about this competency gap, there is a lack of guidance on how to address it through organizational competency models.

Jennifer McNelly, president of the Manufacturing Institute, presented to Jabil employees on why manufacturing still matters to global economies and how to improve the talent pipeline.

Departure of U.S. chief extends changes at top of world’s largest freight forwarding, supply chain provider.

Amazon is hiring 6,000 full-time workers to staff up across its more than 50 distribution centers in the United States.

According to a newly released "2015 Supply Chain Survey" from Deloitte, only 45 percent of supply chain and 40 percent of procurement executives at U.S.-based global companies say they are confident that their supply chain organizations have the competencies they need today.

If you want to build a culture of high performance, start by taking a look at your office environment - it matters more than you may realize.