Future of supply chain management hangs on the right human resource strategy

摘要

There may be a greater danger to effective supply chain management than rising fuel costs, infrastructure gridlock and trade-inhibiting government policies. This danger is greater than the three evils mentioned because it will have a direct impact on our ability to deal effectively with all of them, or any other supply chain management issue for that matter. The danger I speak of is a demographic shift in our working population that threatens to pit us in a tug of war against every other profession in Canada for the talented professionals necessary to respond to our evolving supply chain challenges. Scores of baby boomers will be retiring between now and 2020. Who will take their place? As David Foot, professor of economics and author of Boom, Bust and Echo, plainly points out: Right now, there are hardly any five-year-olds. So in 15 years from now, there will hardly by any 20-year-olds. (Skeptics need only consult the Canadian and U.S. Census Bureaus.)