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Knowledge and Skills of a Logistics Manager Required by the Manufacturing Industry of Ciudad Juárez

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Techniques, Tools and Methodologies Applied to Global Supply Chain Ecosystems

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This chapter presents a model that integrates six main skills and/or knowledge that a logistics professional should have. This model is validated through the confirmatory factorial analysis technique. The research work was carried out specifically in the Export Manufacturing Industry of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, applying a questionnaire of 33 items to the personnel of the medium and high levels responsible for the logistics area. The results indicate that the factors with the greatest explanatory power are: Information technology, Supply chain management and Quantitative methods.

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  1. Department of Industrial Engineering and Manufacturing, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, Av. Del Charro 450 Norte. Col. Partido Romero. Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico

    Roberto Romero López, Marie Karen Issamar Favela Herrera & Erwin Adán Martínez Gómez

  2. Department of Electric Engineering and Computation, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, Av. Del Charro 450 Norte. Col. Partido Romero. Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico

    Patricia Cristina Parroquín Amaya

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Romero López, R., Favela Herrera, M.K.I., Martínez Gómez, E.A., Parroquín Amaya, P.C. (2020). Knowledge and Skills of a Logistics Manager Required by the Manufacturing Industry of Ciudad Juárez. In: García-Alcaraz, J., Sánchez-Ramírez, C., Avelar-Sosa, L., Alor-Hernández, G. (eds) Techniques, Tools and Methodologies Applied to Global Supply Chain Ecosystems. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 166. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26488-8_6

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