LOGISTICS EDUCATIONAL NEEDS OF MALAYSIA: A CONCEPTUAL STUDY

This paper presents a conceptual framework on the Malaysian logistics educational needs. To explore the Malaysian logistics educational needs (LEN), this paper emphasizes the need to conduct a research to gain the thoughts of local logistician practitioners on logistics and the supply chain management issues to provide salient inputs. The components of the LEN to be explored in this paper are courses offered by the Malaysian higher education institutions (MHEIs), knowledge, and the competency required by students in a logistics programme. Three propositions were derived from previous literature review. Conclusions from the literature are drawn that states that knowledge, competency and courses offered play a key role in how they contribute to Malaysian LEN