If you haven't felt the pinch yet, you may soon. There's a link missing in the supply chain, and it may take time to repair. The gap is in talent, and the number of people needed to fill all levels of the vast number of supply chain and logistics jobs being created every year is surprisingly high.
Complicating matters is the fact that this is a worldwide, cross-industry issue. That means the electronics industry will have to go toe-to-toe with many other companies to onboard the right people with the critical skills required to handle global sourcing, demand planning, box-moving and everything else being assigned to supply chain and logistics professionals.
While some companies are proactively fine-tuning their new-hire recruitment process, working with universities to bring on promising graduates and beefing up their employee-training programs, the job gap will likely be an ongoing event for the next few years. Some companies — even the industry's biggest bellwethers — have been shocked to find the odds stackedMultiple capacitor elements stacked in multi-unit arrangement to provide bulk capacitance and lower ESR.Multiple capacitor elements stackedMultiple capacitor elements stacked in multi-unit arrangement to provide bulk capacitance and lower ESR. in multi-unit arrangement to provide bulk capacitance and lower ESR. against them, despite their corporate attractiveness, reputation, and the traditional ease with which they once were able to quickly fill positions.
Here's what the job picture looks like right now from a few different perspectives.
