CTM – powered by Sopra Steria
Sopra Steria Joins Rail’s Digital Revolution
This article first appeared in the Railway-News magazine Issue 5 2021.
It is an exciting time for the UK rail industry with plenty of major projects in the pipeline such as Great North Rail, Crossrail and East West Rail.
Innovative digital solutions are positively impacting UK rail users with seamless online booking processes and cheaper, more reliable travel. With technological developments and a complex regulatory environment to navigate, employers need a fast and simple competency management solution. Sopra Steria, a European leader in digital services, has created a platform that offers exactly that with its Competency Training Marketplace™ (CTM).
An Effective Solution
Did you know that a recent survey* showed 75% of employers feel their existing competency management tools could be improved by an integrated marketplace? CTM is an easy-to-use, one-stop platform which enables organisations to book and manage workforce training all in one place.
The platform creates stronger connections between training providers and employers with a marketplace full of industry accredited training providers offering a number of essential qualifications from person track safety (PTS) to strategic safety management programmes and more. For ease, the price, location and date filters reduce huge amounts of admin time previously spent browsing search engines to find the same results.
CTM’s in-built project planning and forecasting tools show which staff are sufficiently qualified for upcoming projects and which employees have imminently expiring qualifications – useful for those managing many projects at one time. If a qualification is expiring users will be alerted via email and the integrated marketplace ensures a seamless booking experience for the necessary training. The skills gap analysis tool can quickly and visually demonstrate which training is needed by employees to work on a project.
Regulatory compliance may seem daunting, but with integrated technology like CTM it is easy to demonstrate effective staff compliance when pitching for bids and undertaking audits.
