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Empowering Tomorrow's Planners: Essential Skills for Success

August 22, 2024

Webinar Description

With increased availability and deployment of technology to support and automate planning processes, the role of the supply chain planners needs to evolve. The competencies and skills that were important before are no longer relevant. In this session, we will discuss the evolution of the planners' roles, upskilling strategies and creating a safe learning environment.
 

What you will take away:

  • Understand 3 key transitions planners need to go through: from plan generation to plan evaluation, from plan administration to plan orchestration and from plan precision to plan resilience
  • The relevance of functional and leadership competencies alongside new digital competencies planners need to succed
  • Upskilling planners require experiential learning and relationship-based learning opportunities alongside formal training.
  • Planning leaders need to change their own behaviors to increase planners confidence and empower them to succeed in their new role


Speakers:

Cristina Carvallo, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner

Moderator:

Robert Bowman, Editor-in-ChiefSupplyChainBrain