Author : Cassandre Jacquin

Find this month : 

• The Basque Country joins the permanent team
• The "Publications and Tools" section gets a makeover
• Who are these women in Supply Chain?
• Transport goes digital
• ELA Awards in Paris with France Supply Chain
• Launch of the Poland Chapter
• What to expect in the coming months

Welcome to our new members, FRACTAL Partners, BALYO and INETUM having joined the association since our last newsletter! A new training organization has also joined us, IGR-IAEUniversité de Rennes.

But what exactly for?

I joined FSC because I was, and still am, convinced that your work and actions would benefit from everyone knowing about them. I would so much have liked to have access to all these tools, studies and webinars in order to progress, innovate and renew my outlook.

I've been an official member of the team since March, and I'm really enjoying it! I'm fascinated by all the subjects, I'm learning every day, and I'd like to thank you for that, for all the material you provide. Now it's my turn to bring it all to light, and the ^1st stage begins today with the new Resource Bank. But we have more surprises in store for you at the end of the year!

Elorri

Publications and tools" section gets a makeover

Did you know that as a member you have access to :

• 200+ publications ;
• + 50 replays ;
• 18 best practice sheets ;
• 27 job descriptions ;
• podcasts, anonymized Lab reports, etc.

All these valuable resources can now be consulted from a single, modern and intuitive platform. We've designed a search engine that lets you filter by keyword and/or category (e.g. Decarbonation, Collaboration & Partner Relations, Training, Professions & Remuneration).

Now you can also easily find resources available in English.

What's your opinion? Let us know so we can improve your online experience.

Who are these women in Supply Chain? 

We know that the Supply Chain is sorely lacking in women, which is why France Supply Chain has decided to shake things up by launching a Community of Women in Supply Chain.

On June 7, nearly 100 people attended a webinar on :

• Career management
• Advice between professionals BUT also between women
• Their everyday inspirations
• Who are they?

Join Annie Saillard, Stéphanie Rott and Marie-Laure Furgala for a Q&A in the replay.

Transport goes digital

At the end of May, Lab Digital & Technologies published a white paper on the digitalization of transport. For the launch, Jérôme Bour, President of DDS, and Geoffrey Thiery, Senior Supply Chain Consultant at Wavestone, presented the feedback and other information on which this publication is based.

Several topics were on the agenda:

• How can transport be integrated into an increasingly complex and blocked IT ecosystem?
• What's the best strategy for successfully implementing a digital transport solution?
• What gains can we expect?

And many more questions were answered by the speakers. To watch the replay and discover the answers to the questions, see the article dedicated to the event.

ELA for the future

Didier Granger, CEO of OEMServices, has been elected Vice-President of the ELA (European Logistics Association). Thanks to this new governance, France Supply Chain is taking an active part in the new development of a European community for Logistics and Supply Chain Management.

France Supply Chain is honored tohost the next ELA Awardsceremony in Paris on December 12, 2023. During the evening, ELA will award a prize to an outstanding logistics project.

For more information, stay tuned!

New Chapter in Poland

France Supply Chain International launches a new Chapter in Poland. Bertrand Neyret, Global WC Supply Chain and Manufacturing Manager and Jean-Christophe Machet, President of FM Logistic are at the helm with their local teams.

If you'd like to take part in this Chapter, contact us!

2 job offers or internships and more than 30 CVs of candidates are currently available on the site, HERE

Find this month : 

• Training in supply chain auditing
• To your feathers!
• They share their warehouses
• Learn how to control your supply chains.
• Hydrogen will soon be on our roads 
• What to expect in the coming months

Welcome to our new members, SANOFI and FORVIA having joined the association since our last newsletter!

In 1997, the members of ASLOG created their Supply Chain performance evaluation tool. The objective of this reference system is to measure in order to improve, which is why France Supply Chain proposes :

• A senior training for consultants and working professionals;
• A Junior training for post-baccalaureate students and schools in Supply Chain Management (SCM);
• A team of qualified auditors to evaluate your supply chain

Learn how to master this unique tool and without equivalent in Europe thanks to a program given in France for 25 years by experts in supply chain audit.

Do you miss the letter and its editorial?

Would you like to speak or rather write?

Contact us for more information!

April 25 marked the launch of the Warehouse Experts Community. The engagement of 32 participants helped clarify the purpose and next steps for this self-help group, including:

• site visits;
• the sharing of a good practice by Expert / Company at each meeting

The ETI / SME Program is a 6-month personalized support to teach you to master the keys and make your Supply Chain a competitive advantage.

These sheets illustrate how FSC members have made progress in mastering the fundamentals, whether it be supplier relationship management, warehouse automation and information gathering, service quality measurement or the organization of business forecasts.

What are the prospects for hydrogen-powered heavy goods vehicles for freight transport?

This conference introduces some of the European hydrogen truck projects currently being deployed or already running. It also addresses the strategic subject of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) with the role and aid of the State, institutions (ADEME, Europe) and financial partners and investment funds that can support companies investing in hydrogen mobility.

Watch the replay

2 job offers or internships and more than 30 CVs of candidates are currently available on the site, HERE

Find this month : 

• A conductor for our projects 
• Long live the preventionists
• What are you waiting for to join them?  
• New jobs for the Supply Chain
• Controlling your CO2 meter
• We are recruiting!
• What to expect in the coming months

Welcome to the new members who joined the association since our last newsletter! O2 Trans, BJ Logistics, Baccarat, Catalydd Conseil and SANOFI have joined the association. A new training organization has also joined us, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3.

France Supply Chain : One year already... ! Passionate about Supply Chain for more than 30 years, I arrived at France Supply Chain last June, as PMO, to coordinate and pilot all the productions of our different Labs. I didn't see the time passing... The adventure is rich, exciting, and energizing! 

My first surprises: 

• I thought I was the only one passionate about Supply Chain. Wrong: I found a lot of enthusiastic, committed, and expert Supply Chain people, in France and internationally. 
• I thought I was a senior in Supply Chain...and well I found more senior, and also older... They will recognize themselves. Thank you for giving me this^second youth.
• I thought I was in a man's world...and I'm the only man on our permanent staff. Even if there is still a long way to go for women in our professions, it feels good to be at the heart of this change.
• I thought that young people were not interested in Supply Chain, but they just don't know it...What a pleasure to work with our schools and universities to explain our jobs and train the new generation
• I thought geeks didn't know anything about jobs. ChatGPT explained the opposite to me. 
• I thought that our companies were all in a logic of profit and growth, I note with happiness that many of them work concretely for a greener Supply Chain, in the very short term

I could continue my list of discoveries... What I simply want to say is that I feel very privileged to work on our major Supply Chain issues of tomorrow, among experts from our 450 member companies. 

It is a real pleasure to be part of this great and beautiful community. Long live collective intelligence for a more efficient, more human and greener Supply Chain. 

JF Jean-François Rey, PMO of France Supply Chain (on the right in the 2nd plan with the Lab Digital team during a dinner on the banks of the Seine)

As part of the SupplyChain4Good Lab, the Rocher Group and FM Logistic have joined forces to produce a guide on ways to prevent arduousness in warehouses, through two of their employees: Benjamin Muller (Rocher Group) and Romain Chevallet (FM Logistic).

"This guide for everyone is the result of a successful collaboration between our two companies. Indeed, we were personally involved and greatly contributed to the realization of this guide by conducting a survey among thirty or so FSC member companies. Both of us are strongly committed to working in the same direction, namely the improvement of working conditions, and we have created a common dynamic through two key elements: commitment and sharing.  

Now, after this successful experience, we would both like to continue this collaboration by creating a community of preventionists in the logistics sector, in order to work together and find solutions to our common problems. Testimony of Benjamin Muller and Romain Chevallet collected on the occasion of the publication of the Toolbook of good practices

On April 6, they organized a webinar to present their work and the benefits of joining the communities: informed exchanges, free benchmarks, presence of companies of all sizes and sectors, etc. It's not too late to discover our Labs!

CO2 measurement in freight transport

Freight transport is one of the levers for a low-carbon transition and the train is an efficient and fast solution, but it is not the only one. In this replay, which is the result of exchanges between shippers and freight forwarders over thelast 12 months within the SupplyChain4Good Lab, you will discover the factors on which to act and how to manage them.

Get involved in the Digital & Technologies Lab!

2 projects are being relaunched within the Lab:

•  IOT & Blockchain with the ambition to jointly treat these 2 subjects taken separately until now. The first focus will naturally be on traceability.
•  Cybersecurity of the Supply Chain, which will initially focus on theattack via third parties or thecrisis exercise.

Workshops will be organized during the year so that everyone can share their experience, questions and knowledge. The goal is to create a real place of constructive and beneficial exchanges for all at the frequency that suits you. Are you willing and interested? 

📧 Please contact Jean-François REY and Sébastien MARIE

6 job offers or internships and 10 candidates' CVs are currently available on the site, HERE

Find this month : 

• The Labs open their doors
• Helping students in Supply Chain
• The shippers' coalition embarks for Africa
• Tools to help recruiters, managers and students
• The keys to Blockchain technology
• What to expect in the coming months

Welcome to the new members who joined the association since our last newsletter! Acolyt, Akanea, Carniato, Electricfil Service (EFI), Everysens, Institut Léonard de Vinci, Interlog Services, Logicités, Sysley and U Proximité have joined the association and we have a new partner in the field of digitization and workflow automation: Servicenow.

For several weeks, the leaders of the Labs and Communities of France Supply Chain have been working hard to prepare an exciting and friendly online meeting: " A moment of sharing with our Labs ". For this webinar, they will take you behind the scenes of their working groups to :

• to make you discover what the members and the work of France Supply Chain can bring you;
• share their personal experience by focusing on current projects;
• to present you in a concrete way their functioning and their flagship achievements;
• to help you understand how you can get involved, depending on your means.

This new format focuses on communities and the people who make them live.

Participate in the April 6 Webinar and prepare your questions!

The Lab Jeunes is now present and active on Instagram !

Our objectives? To create the first Supply Chain community on social networks, to allow you to make your friends and family discover this new and exciting sector with numerous professional opportunities. It is also to help you, advise you and allow you to find your way in this impacting sector. Today, little known and growing, it needs us, but also you for the future. The Instagram account is here to help you!

Various testimonies of professionals of the sector orstudents as well as advice of orientations or podcasts are on the menu, without forgetting the many other surprises which await you to understand the Supply Chain of tomorrow. Here is the place to exchange, testify, connect and innovate.

So don't hesitate any longer! If you are looking for a path, a training, or a job, we will be able to help you thanks to our different resources.

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The Class of 2023

And to support us and spread our vision of a Sustainable Supply Chain, think of sharing and commenting their publications and subscribing to their new page LinkedIn

Blockchain technology appeals to you, but you are still hesitating to get started? Through 2 Webinars, the Digital and Technologies Lab, in partnership with Wavestone, will present numerous business applications. Discover the projects carried out for the SNCF, Thales, Raynal and Roquelaure or the port of Marseille as well as their concrete results on traceability and synchronization of flows.

 Replay: How does the Blockchain fluidize all the actors of the Supply Chain?

In this second replay, our guests present in detail 2 applications of total traceability of upstream and downstream flows (ore, agricultural raw materials) with a focus on the security of information sharing and their auditability.

Replay: How blockchain opens the door to new use cases in the supply chain?

3 job offers or internships and 10 CVs of candidates are currently available on the site, HERE

Find this month : 

• The relationship between schools and companies with Françoise Lieuré
• New leader of the Digital & Technologies Lab
• Supporting companies in their supply chain transformation with our Lab ETI/PME
• Recruiting Supply Chain talent
• What to expect in the coming months

Over the 5 years that François Martin-Festa has been leading the Digital Lab of our association, the maturity of our members has continued to progress, driven by the continuous exchanges within the Lab: Basic maturity through data consolidation, tracking, ERP/TMS/WMS deployment or automation. Maturity of use cases such as performance and process analysis, extended supply chain visibility, CO2 and even the beginning of AI implementation.

An obvious fact was also highlighted by Covid: given the complexity of our businesses, we can no longer manage our Supply Chain with Excel files.

The good news is that digital solutions for Supply Chain have also gained in maturity. False promises, such as certain AI topics for example, are starting to be filtered out and robust use cases are better shared among us.

The downside is that resistance to change has never been so much of an obstacle to these projects. Education and support are therefore more than ever a central issue.

And what could be more effective than an active and united community to address it!

François and our president, Yann De Feraudy, have asked me to take over from François and to lead the Digital Lab. I will continue to lead the AI project directly because, as you know, I already have a strong commitment to AI and "ethical" AI outside France Supply Chain.

We will continue to build on the momentum of the Digital Lab and focus on the priorities defined by the Board at the end of 2022, such as strengthening our community

The next step will be to consolidate the use cases that have been developed by the various Lab Digital projects. I encourage you all to join us to share your experiences and contribute to this theme that has such an impact on all our businesses!

Arnaud De Moissac, CEO DCBrain