While the Trump administration’s tariff is outside its scope continues to control the news cycle, another with regard to the challenge is to raise the conversation: the decrease in the average American birth and how this will affect future supply chains. While companies are struggling to fill the functions of the supply chain and prepare for the sustainability of the workforce in the long run, institutions such as the Board of the Supply Series (CSCMP) are looking for new ways to build stronger talent pipelines.
Last month, CSCMP announced that it is working to expand its efforts to provide the supply chain education education at the high school level. Under the auspices of the Talent Center, CSCMP aims in the coming months “to create an expanded workforce for the supply chain that begins with learning content in middle schools to high school all over the world.” The axis of the initiative is to allocate the supply chain training training to provide students with the knowledge of the constituent supply chain, the integration of STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) and business education.
This announcement comes in the wake of a successful pilot program at the Claide Miller Academy in Saint Lewis. Over the past year and a half, CSCMP has made a partnership with the St. Louis School for financing and providing the SCPRO course in CSCMP for the high school school, Michelle Williams, so that you can develop a curriculum for the supply chain for its students. While many high schools across the United States have work study programs, certificates courses for fields such as car maintenance, and incubator programs to teach entrepreneurship skills, the Claide Miller Academy was among the first high schools to offer an educational course in the supply chain.
This experimental program is a great first step, but more is needed to address future workforce shortages. It is not an easy to fix, and decrease in the United States – in fact, global birth rates are something that we can no longer ignore. In January of this year, the CBO budget office (CBO) has released a demographic view of the American population for 2025 to 2055. While the population is expected to grow over the next thirty years, CBO expects growth during that period from the average from 0.4 % per year between 2025 and 2035 to 0.1 % per year between 2036 and 2055. For example, for example , The Pew Research Center issued a report in June entitled “American adults in the twenties and thirties are planning to have fewer children than in the past.”
This decline will continue to have a ripple effect if we do not find new ways to address workers ’lack of workers in the coming decades. While robots, systems/vehicles and artificial intelligence can help fill some gaps, we will always need people to plan our goods, their source, manufacture and transport. If the low -birth rate continues in the United States, as the Central Bank of Oman expects, we will have to continue to think “outside the box” to recruit and keep workers.
CSCMP is committed to finding unique ways to attract talents and develop future supply chain leaders. But education is only part of the answer. We also need to expose the workforce received for professional supply opportunities in the supply chain.
How can your institution or work increase this exposure? This is a question that we all must continue to explore as we plan to meet our workforce needs. As CSCMP talents website says, “to make a truly difference in [developing] The talent of the supply chain that can be accessed and knowing it can be reached together to expand our future workforce. “
