Discussion and Overview: Post-graduate and Master Degree Programmes in Logistics and Supply Chain Management

摘要

Without doubt, logistics and supply chain management (SCM) education and personnel training are vital and it is a key of success for logistics business. By analyzing courses, experiences, and references of postgraduate and MBA courses of universities which are in both Hong Kong and overseas, we can identify that logistics personnel are basically divided into two types: (1) Management Personnel and (2) Engineering and Technical Personnel.In fact, professional and advanced academic training are decisive in operating performance and sustainable development of logistics industry. Manpower is one of the essential components of the logistics industry. Practical logistics operations and management require innovative and well-trained professionals. In order to compete and survive, universities should provide innovative trainings to our industry. Therefore, universities can implement different strategies to train-up different logistics professionals to serve our economy. Future research can be conducted by focusing on Southern China and Asia Pacific region about their postgraduate and practical manpower training of the industry.