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Thought Leadership
Lack of skilled technology operators
threatens logistics profi tability
The logistics industry is geared to quickly hire operational skills like pickers, packers and drivers
based on seasonal scalability, but in a highly competitive environment this isn’t enough anymore to
ensure business profi tability and happy customers.
“A SHORTAGE of specialised skills that Humans need to provide insight
operate the technology optimising Technological advances have signifi cantly eased
distribution of goods to customers is the pain traditionally associated with outsourcing
threatening even the best efforts at scaling skills considered core to the success of a business,
operational capability,” says Lukas Potgieter, but having the right technology available is only
General Manager at VSc Solutions. one part of the solution.
6 March 2018 | Logistics News
