France Supply Chain calls on European candidates to implement a European strategy for integrating supply chain expertise, "Supply Chain Experts".

As part of its "Influence" project, on Thursday May 16, 2024, the France Supply Chain Executive Committee invited the main candidates in the European elections to discuss the role of the supply chain as a vector for structuring public policy.

Present to represent the association were :

France Supply Chain's appeal

This is why our association, backed by the experience gained from its long history, its European commitment within the ELA - European Logistics Association, and the expertise of its many members, is proposing that candidates in the European elections share these challenges.

The France Supply Chain community is campaigning for the implementation of a European strategy for integrating supply chain expertise, coordinated at EU level, as the USA is doing with the Council on Supply Chain Resilience1² and China with the B.R.I.(Belt and road initiative⁾³. Taking this into account at the highest level would enable us to face up to the crises that lie ahead, and to support the economic and environmental performance of our countries, in the common interest.

This European strategy "Supply Chain experts must be taken to the European Union level. France Supply Chain calls on future Members of the European Parliament to ensure that this strategy is included in the remit of the next European Commissioner for the Internal Market, and in the remit of the European Parliament's Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee (IMCO).

The European candidates' response

Marion Beauvalet, candidate on the Manon Aubry - LFI list: "The Supply Chain opens up socio-environmental and economic horizons that we want to pursue as part of our political project. We clearly agree with the triptych of planning-ecology-frugality that you present. We understand the sovereignty issue, which is to be able to weigh up against China and the USA, and there is a democratic question: with which players are we discussing the " Supply Chain experts " strategy, which we support in principle?

Thiebaut Weber, candidate on Raphaël Glucksmann's list - PS: "Yes for a European Supply Chain entity, especially if it is imbued with the values you defend: sobriety and frugality in the supply chain. The challenges of the ecological transition of the supply chain are absent in the USA. If there is to be a European supply chain school, and if there is to be an interlocutor to enable this public debate to take place, then of course we need to create it. We need the integrated approach you're advocating.

Brruno Millienne, MoDem MP representing Valérie Hayer's list - Renew: "Generative AI is going to be very important in tomorrow's supply chain professions. I'm totally in favor of doing at European level what the USA has done with the Council on Supply Chain Resilience.

Aurélien Caron, candidate for the François-Xavier Bellamy - LR list: "Building a Europe that enables us to control our destiny is our priority for this election. Yes, we support the " Supply Chain Experts " initiative to ensure that the European Union takes into account and defines a strategy linked to the sector's major challenges, all the more so as the European Commission already has the human resources to organize it with constant resources. It must do so within a framework of normative restraint, so as not to weaken our companies while respecting their economic freedom and capacity for innovation".

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¹ https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/11/27/fact-sheet-president-biden-announces-new-actions-to-strengthen-americas-supply-chains-lower-costs-for-families-and-secure-key-sectors/

² https://www.lesechos.fr/monde/etats-unis/la-maison-blanche-se-transforme-en-tour-de-controle-des-chaines-dapprovisionnement-2037487

³ https://geoconfluences.ens-lyon.fr/glossaire/routes-de-la-soie

⁴ It is widely accepted that 80% of environmental impact comes from the supply chain, as demonstrated by Kering's work https://kering-group.opendatasoft.com/pages/report/

⁵ https://www.francesupplychain.org/labs-et-projets/coalition-chargeurs-velique/

⁶ https://www.francesupplychain.org/e-vo-l-u-e-les-premiers-resultats-concrets-devoiles-pour-une-logistique-urbaine-plus-efficiente/

⁷ A path of support dedicated to the transformation of ETIs and SMEs

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