An analysis of supply chain related graduate programmes in Europe

Onar, Sezi Çevik; Aktaş, Emel; Topçu, Y. İlker; Doran, Desmond

doi:10.1108/scm-06-2012-0209

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“…Training and education focused articles were included if they were also focused on purchasing skills; otherwise, they were excluded (e.g. Cevik Onar et al , 2013; Leon and Uddin, 2016). Finally, articles that concentrated exclusively on public procurement were excluded, since public organizations explore politically driven (not demand-driven) environments in which users are citizens, not direct buyers, and they are less focused on supplier-driven innovations (Arlbjørn and Freytag, 2012).…”

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Purchasing and supply management skills revisited: an extensive literature review

Karttunen

2018

BIJ

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Purpose Research on purchasing managers and their skills requirements supports the training and education of purchasing professionals. This paper offers an in-depth analytical review of the purchasing skills reported in the supply chain management (SCM) literature. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the most important skills and factors that influence these skills. Design/methodology/approach This paper employs a systematic literature review methodology. Two databases, Scopus and Web of Science, are searched for relevant articles. The selected journal articles are used as sources to obtain a view not only on the relevant purchasing and supply management (P/SM) skills, but also on factors that emphasize certain P/SM skills. This paper also summarizes the ten skills ranked as most important (often described as the “top ten”) among the sample articles. Findings The paper highlights the essential skills for purchasing professionals, verified both by their frequent appearances in rankings and by citation frequency in the literature. Generic managerial skills, such as communication, cost analysis, teamwork, problem-solving, negotiation, influencing, and persuasion, as well as information technology skills, received the most attention in the literature and rankings of the “top ten” P/SM skills. This paper provides a refined categorization of purchasing skills, which have merged recently with other discussed skills, such as political and entrepreneurial ones, into this categorization. This paper identifies factors that affect purchasing managers’ skills requirements. Originality/value This paper presents a structured overview of 57 peer-reviewed articles from high-quality journals about purchasing skills. The review contributes to the purchasing skills literature by showing the most relevant skills and the factors that influence skills requirements. These factors also provide arenas for further research related to purchasing skills.

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Purchasing and supply management skills revisited: an extensive literature review

Karttunen

2018

BIJ

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“…The literature provides some specific, interesting references to supply chains in Europe. Onar, Aktas, Topcu, and Doran [16] traced the evolution of supply chain managers training by undertaking a comparative analysis of academic education programs in 2004 and 2011. They note that the progress in logistics education in that period was due to the changing needs of the industry.…”

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A New Model of the Personnel Function Delivery in the Logistics of Polish Firms

Gołembska

Gołembski

2020

Logistics

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In the article, a new phenomenon of global logistification provides a context for presenting the newest trends in the development of HR management and its role in logistics. The new trends include a growing internationalization of firms, combined flows of capital, people and technical knowledge, and the issue of key logistics competences. Against this background, the article describes a new model of the HR management function in logistics. The aim is to find the relationship between designing and delivering the personnel function in a firm and the effectiveness of logistics management. The key aspects of the personnel function management include talent and competencies management, personnel risk management, and employer branding. These HR practices are explored to determine attributes of the personnel function, and to describe challenges of the proactive human resource management in logistics. The article continues with a presentation of the results of empirical studies conducted in the period 2017–2018 of 236 large, medium-sized, and small Polish firms. As the primary methods, the research used a diagnostic survey, a questionnaire, and the statistical method of factor analysis. The second part of the article presents an original model of the personnel function in logistics management, with regard to the specificity of Polish firms. The findings based on the study results refer to both the present and future status of HR management in logistics. The main findings of the studies acknowledge the influence of all-embracing logistification on the volumes and structure of knowledge transfer in supply chains, and reveal a growing decentralization of HR management in large and medium-sized companies, resulting in an imbalance between the levels of personnel function implementation in large and medium-sized companies, compared with small firms.

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