For years I have been involved in trying to fill planning and scheduling positions for our clients, and am left with a few enduring questions as a result:
1. Is it really so hard to train and retain an in-house capability, such that this skill needs to be outsourced?
2. What is it about the scheduling discipline that makes it so hard to source these skills?
3. Where do these people come from, who actually fill these positions?
4. Where do they go once they leave the discipline, since there appears to be a never diminishing demand for them?
I have my own theories but I wanted to pulse the community to see what the true picture is, and what the answers to these questions might be, so that I can finally start to address this challenge in my own organisation.
To this end I have created a bit of a survey - see the link below - (a bit of a grandiose term for what it is, once you read it) which I hope to use to help me get to an answer.
I would be really grateful if you could give it a go and help me find an answer to my question of "where are all the schedulers at?"
Cheers and thanks,
Steve Grimmett