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| Mrs Ngai Wan Sze: |
Hi Fanny,
Should I study Secretary, Logistics Courses?
I am Executive Assistant, serving Vice President of International Supply Chain under DHL Logistics which is my new job starting 18 September 2006.
I graduated at Baptist University, majored Bachelor of Business Administation - Management Information System in 2000. My first job was Assistant IT Developer in a forwarder company for 4 years. My second job is Assistant Officer, serving Executive Director in KMB for 2 years.
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| 陳筱芬: |
Thank you for your question and sorry for the delay in replying due to the Christmas holiday season.
You presented a very concise description of your various job titles since you graduated. Having attained 6 years of working experience from local to multinational corporations like the DHL, you should be able expanding your industry management horizon. While you are assisting in the development of International Supply Chain, you should value this opportunity to open your eyes to learn in a very dynamic fast moving and booming global business PROVIDED if you are REALLY interested in this industry.
The business of logistics - designing and coordinating the flow of items, information, cash and ideas through the supply chain — is an enormous industry.The US logistics bill is now more than $1 trillion — a bigger share of the GDP than that of social security, health care or defense.
It is also a very complex business. A proliferation of factors — such as the development of technology, the globalization of the economy and the pressures of environmental concerns — means that logistics professionals have to design and operate worldwide networks which are constantly in flux and which have to respond to a host of constituents.
The original notion of logistics involved three operations that each add value to merchandise — adding place value by moving items; adding time value by storing them until they’re needed; and adding order value by arranging them in more desirable patterns and quantities (consolidation, break-bulk, sequencing, etc.).
But currently, in addition to concentrating on the operations above, some firms are now achieving quantum leaps in service, sales and cost through process coordination involving the sharing of data and knowledge between their internal functions, as well as between the other players in their supply chain and beyond.
By integrating processes along their product supply chain, and by forming partnerships with key vendors and customers, they are eliminating functions without sufficient added-value, reducing overall risk through innovative contracting, and sharpening their focus on the final customer. All of which leads to significant, bottom-line results.
Such innovative supply chain management has raised the logistics professional from a cost-oriented “we need to have it but we don’t really like it” position to a strategic executive responsibility critical to corporate success.
As recently as 15 years ago, there was virtually no such thing as a contract logistics company, but today there are hundreds of them. DHL, UPS Worldwide Logistics, FedEx Logistics, are growing and changing the way supply chains are designed and managed. At the same time, the demand for software to help with that is growing and changing. More than ever before, logistics is where tomorrow’s strategic advantage is being created today. Companies like Wal-Mart, Dell, Procter & Gamble and ZARA are already leading the way in creating strategic business advantage through their logistics and supply chain operations.
As the globalization of markets continues, tomorrow’s corporate leaders are increasingly expected to have logistics expertise. Even today, many top corporate executives are those with extensive logistics experience. A career in logistics and supply chain management offers a host of opportunities — booming growth in a range of industries, increasing strategic importance in companies, expanding corporate opportunities with lucrative compensation and the challenge of creating new industries leveraging new logistics technologies and practices.
But best of all: because the field is new — and because it requires analytical ability — the demand for skilled professionals is consistently greater than the supply. Graduates, with their supply chain management and engineering expertise, coupled with the depth of their analytical training, fit the growing demand exactly.
I think you should consider taking further studies in Logistic or Supply management field, after you ask yourself this is the industry you are REALLY interested in developing a career. You may be interested in joining the professional career talk in Logistic industry this Saturday 10 Feb 2007 2:30pm at SPEED of Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
http://www.speed.polyu.edu.hk/speed/whatsnew/mkt/log/jobform.htm
I wish you the best of luck in your career and study
Fanny Chan
Dr Ed Q & A Forum
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