Logistics experts say increased automation of supply chains offers an opportunity to upskill workers to maintain human jobs.
"We are seeing a significant shift within retail and grocery specifically towards automated systems, both in store and across supply chains," said James Smith, UK managing director of AutoStore, a Norwegian robotics company whose CEO, Karl Johan Lier, was featured in Insider's Smith added that he thinks there's a huge opportunity for businesses to upskill the existing and future workforce to protect jobs, provide more rewarding career paths and support business growth.
Fronts. According to Smith, Puma has seen a three-times productivity gain as a result of automation and is now able to ship 97% of orders within 24 hours. This is in line with a 50% increase in e-commerce orders and 50% year-on-year growth since adopting automation in 2015, before extending its automated operation in 2017.
For technologies to be used in a business, two types of workers are needed, said Professor Tse, technical and business."Those who are in technical including engineers and developers are usually a great deal more interested in dealing with the IT stack.
This goes hand in hand with increasing recognition by industry leaders that workers upskilling for deploying the technology is just as important to a company as the technology development in the first place."From this perspective, upskilling is not a one-stage process but a continuous development journey. As technology continues to develop and adapt, lifelong learning will become the norm," Stefanescu-Cuntze said.