THE TRAINING NEEDS FOR HALAL LOGISTICS INDUSTRY IN MALAYSIA

Abstract

Today, the ultimate success of the halal industry depends on the management ability to combine the element of supply chain. The logistics service providers play a serious role in realising this combination for the halal logistics (Tieman, 2008). The third party logistics (3PL) involved in the reloading, collection, handling, consolidation, storage, tracking and tracing and controlling the movement and storage of halal products represent an important and rapid growth of the economy as halal logistics supply chain is more complicated than traditional logistics operation (Tieman, 2008). Any supply chain needs to realise the markets, the requirement of the customers and the product characteristics to achieve halal logistics excellence (Smith, 2007). All the activities of halal logistics can be achieved with the proper training to create the awareness for handling the halal product and services to the 3PL player. This paper tends to answer what is the state of the halal logistics industry in Malaysia and what are the factors that influence the training needs in halal logistics in Malaysia.
There is no denying that training plays an important role in order to boost the logistics industry as stated in the Industrial Master Plan 3 (Ministry of International Trade and Industry, 2006). It also stressed that one of the strategic thrusts in the logistics industry is to ensure an adequate supply of competent workforce to meet the long term requirement of the industry. This plan also stated that the capabilities of workforce will be enhanced through other re-training and long-life learning of the personnel to meet short and long-term needs of the industry in specific areas of technical, commercial and operation skills (Ministry of International Trade and Industry, 2006).