Putting Supply Chain Learning Theory into Practice: Lessons from an Irish Case

Authors

Edward Sweeney, Technological University DublinFollow
Pietro Evangelista, Institute for Service Industry Research (IRAT)
Renato Passaro, University of Naples

Document Type

Article

Rights

Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence

Disciplines

Business and Management.

Publication Details

Published: International Journal of Knowledge and Learning, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 357-372, 2005.

Abstract

The logistics service market is currently going through a fundamental transition. The development of closer relationships with customers and the continuous adaptation of products and services, represent potentially successful approaches to the development of improved competitive capability. To this end knowledge resources and learning processes increasingly represent key elements within the evolving framework of the 3PL business. This paper describes the case of NITL’s Foundation Certificate Programme (FCP) learning programme with specific reference to its use in addressing some of current shortcomings related to supply chain knowledge and skills in the Irish third party logistics (3PL) industry. The FCP rationale is based on the need to move from traditional approaches of supply chain organisation where the various links in the chain were measured and managed in isolation from each other and thus tended to operate at cross purposes, towards more integrated approaches.

Recommended Citation

Sweeney, E., Evangelista, P. & Passaro, R. (2005) Putting Supply Chain Learning Theory into Practice: lessons from an Irish case. International Journal of Knowledge and Learning, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 357-372.