The Supply Chain is one of the most tense sectors of activity: risky environments, deadline constraints, compliance with costs, procedures, intensive periods or even high recruitment (e.g. 540,000 positions to be filled by 2022 according to Employment Center). Today there is a real need supply chain agility For train faster and more efficiently. Virtual reality has proven that it meets these challenges thanks to a new form of immersive and interactive learning: Immersive Learning.
How to recruit, onboard and train large scale ? How to improve processes and reduce risks while reducing costs and the training time ? Discover how Immersive Learning contributes to improving the existing supply chain.
What is Immersive Learning and how can it benefit the Supply Chain sector?
With the rise of new technologies, companies have understood that the training and learning of employees throughout their professional lives is strategic. Today, teams in charge of “Learning” have access to numerous solutions to train employees better and faster. The latest solution is the use of Virtual reality, more commonly called Immersive Learning. The use of this technology makes it possible to group theoretical content and practical exercise to offer scenarios to learners.
The concept consists of carrying out a 360° capture of the environment real and to construct a scenario in which the learner will have to make interactions (risk hunting, manipulation of 3D objects, voice recognition, etc.).
Thanks to these simulations as close as possible to reality, it is now possible to project oneself into one's work environment, to practice and make mistakes without limits and without consequences on production. Research has shown that learning through Virtual Reality significantly increases the retention of information and allows you to capture attention 100% learners (75 to 90 % of long-term information retention compared to 10 to 20 % for traditional methods).
How can Immersive Learning be applied to the logistics sector?
There are multiple use cases in this sector, training in fundamentals and in-depth skills, security, recruitment, difficult-to-access sites, etc. Here are some concrete examples:
Raise awareness of business risks and security : Create some immersive modules featuring risky situations experienced by the learner and research exercises aimed at raising awareness about observing one's work environment. Falling objects, poor marking, vehicle traffic, fires, musculoskeletal problems, contamination (e.g. Covid-19). The objective: to learn the right gestures and be more vigilant facing potential dangers.
Immersive Learning allows you to practice in real situation without constraints and without risks. The learner will also live the consequences of his errors in the simulation (e.g. being run over by a forklift).
Benefits: Reduce accidents of work, allow better retention of information through context and action. Immersion generates emotion, which makes it possible to impact and to raise awareness more effectively, compared to so-called traditional training.
Training in professional skills : Familiarize yourself with field procedures and professional actions: order preparation, machine operation, quality and compliance checks, respect for the cold chain, etc. Immersive Learning allows you to reproduce this ground reality by adding educational interactions (quizzes, handling 3D objects, finding the right PPE, etc.)
Benefits: reduce practical and theoretical training time and go beyond the usual logistical constraints (room reservation, mobilization of trainers or professional experts, mobilization of equipment, cessation of production, etc.).
Onboarding newcomers : project future employees into their work environment even before they join the company. The Supply Chain industry regularly hires temporary workers, particularly during busy periods. These must be quickly operational. Immersive Learning allows you to optimize these onboarding phases : prepare for basic safety rules, prepare orders... and do this, simply with a Virtual Reality headset.
Benefits : save time on training new arrivals, make quickly operational, familiarize yourself with the work environment and free up time for staff who are usually busy.
Recruit new candidates : test future recruits on their “field” skills from the interview phase. Validate technical skills and knowledge of basic safety rules. Some recruitment firms and companies in the Supply Chain sector use this technology to validate profiles candidates and ensure that they are a good fit for the position. It is also a great way to familiarize yourself with processes, of the lines (production or logistics) and security. Thus, even before accessing the site, the operator is already comfortable with their work environment.
Benefits : Optimize the recruitment phases and receive candidates capable of responding to the missions you entrust to them. Increase in the number of CVs harvested: attracting the new generation, sensitive to new technologies.
Ultimately, Immersive Learning has no limit only the imagination, since modules can be created to measure according to your needs and your reality on the ground.
Today, it is necessary for the Supply Chain sector to train in an agile way and to have innovative solutions to evaluate or validate skills and put in large scale condition.
Create immersive training at scale with the Uptale platform
Uptale offers businesses a SaaS solution of experiential training in Virtual reality. The solution allows any organization to digitize its environments and its know-how in the form of360° immersive experiences, educational and interactive.
The employees teleport instantly and train in real situation without constraints and without risks.
Uptale technology works on all devices, smartphones, tablets, PCs and of course VR headsets and integrates with all LMS. She makes the creation, dissemination and impact measurement simple, fun and accessible to all.
Uptale today allows more than 50 groups including Vallourec, Autodistribution Logisteo, Alstom, Schneider Electric, Suez, to develop practical of the' "Immersive Learning » to large scale in full autonomy.
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