Heavy goods vehicles are known to produce the majority of the negative externalities linked to carbon emissions. For several years now, companies have been striving to adopt more responsible solutions in order to make their supply chain greener.
Hydrogen is becoming one of the most studiedalternative energies for the creation of clean vehicles for goods transport. As it is not used enough, there are many questions about its functioning, its deployment prospects, its advantages, its obstacles...
On 16 February, France Supply Chain and France Hydrogène organised an event to answer all these questions. Several speakers met in order to inform and accompany the actors of the supply chain of goods transport wishing to engage or already working on the topic of the electric truck with hydrogen for goods transport.
During this event, the Mobilité Hydrogène France group of France Hydrogène presented its White Paper dedicated to the deployment of the electric hydrogen truck in France.
In collaboration with My Job Glasses, France Supply Chain invites you to help young people discover your profession and find their way. On a voluntary basis, we propose that you become a mentor to help young people see their future more clearly.
What is My Job Glasses?
Europe's leading mentoring tool that connects young people aged 15 to 30 with 52,000 professionals from over 3,000 companies. The aim is to enable young people to discover the reality of professions, to project themselves into career paths and to develop a network through meetings with passionate and committed mentors.
5 reasons to become a mentor :
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To help young people find their way by talking to them in all simplicity about your daily life, your missions and your career path, to give a concrete vision of your profession to students who have questions. It's also a good way to introduce them to our sector: the supply chain. You can have a real impact with very little time. No need to travel, the student comes to you via the My Job Glasses platform to arrange a meeting by videoconference or on the premises.
For those who register, we will organise an onboarding session to guide and support you in your role as mentor.
Do you want to help a young person to see their future more clearly?
Making businesses even stronger and more resilient. This is the objective of the European taxonomy introduced in 2020. It is defined through a classification of so-called "green" economic activities. Luca Silipo, head of GEODIS and creator of the GEODIS WorldLab, provides an overview and explanation.
A complex but essential subject since its introduction in 2020, the European taxonomy aims to provide financial incentives for the sustainable transition of EU-based companies and provides them with a framework to position themselves at the forefront of the fight against climate change. Requiring a significant accounting effort, they concern companies with more than 500 employees that are already obliged to communicate on their extra-financial reporting and require them to specify the share of their turnover, investments and expenditure in so-called "green" activities.
While the supply chain is more than ever in the spotlight, it is increasingly being criticised for its environmental, societal and economic impact. Companies must urgently improve their control of this complex network of interdependencies in which and thanks to which they operate and develop their activities.
Produced in partnership with Arts et Métiers, France Supply Chain and AMRAE, this barometer analyses the challenges faced by companies in the aeronautics, automotive, luxury goods/distribution and services sectors in the face of these risks and sheds light on the areas of work to improve their resilience.
After a first meeting in 2020, France Supply Chain organised a second webinar on RPA on 19 January, with FM Logistic and Groupe Avril. A look back at some concrete examples of how the technology has been used.
On 19 January, the Digital LAB of France Supply Chain, led by Anne-Brigitte Spitzbarth, VP Operations Excellence and Sustainability of Gefco, launched its first 2022 webinar on RPA with the aim of revealing concrete cases of implementation of the solution.
To kick it off, Virginie Fongond, Head of Optimisation and Automation Projects at FM Logistic explains how the logistics company has taken on the subject through a holistic approach. After three years of deployment and a first POC at the end of 2018, it has a portfolio of more than 330 automation projects, 141 of which are currently in production. It has already saved 16,000 hours since December 2020, i.e. a saving of 300,000 euros and as much time reallocated to higher value-added tasks.
In the framework of the Supply Chain 4 Good Lab and in the continuity of the Manifesto, France Supply Chain launches the Best Article Award in Sustainable Supply Chain in association with the International Association for Research in Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
The aim of this initiative is to reward a scientific publication making a significant contribution to the field of sustainable supply chain management. This operation allows us to highlight excellent academic work in the specific fields of logistics management and supply chain management.
Who can participate?
The 2022 edition of this prize is open to research teachers who have published an article in one of the two journals associated with the AIRL-SCM or in a peer-reviewed scientific journal in the field of Supply Chain Management between1 January 2020 and 31 December 2021. The paper may be in French or English. For those in English, candidates will have to produce a long abstract in French (1000 words).
What are the evaluation criteria?
A jury, made up of teacher-researchers who are members of France Supply Chain and members of the AIRL-SCM, will evaluate the articles according to the following criteria:
Importance of the subject matter for France Supply Chain members (e.g. link with the Labs, link with the Manifesto for a more sustainable Supply Chain)
Potential impact of the results (e.g. potential to influence decisions in business or public organisations)
Nature of research contributions: academic, methodological, managerial
Innovative nature of the research
Practical application and consideration of ecosystems
The winner(s) will be awarded a €2,000 prize by France Supply Chain at a ceremony to be held during the AIRL-SCM meetings in Clermont Ferrand from 18 to 20 May.
How and when to apply?
Applications for this "Best Sustainable Supply Chain Paper Award - 2022 Edition" consist of an electronic file including :
The application form
A short curriculum vitae of each author with a list of recent publications
Thepaper submitted for the award, giving full publication references
For articles in English, a long abstract in French of 1,000 words announcing the main contributions
The winners
Out of 17 entries, two were awarded:
The "coup de coeur" prize was awarded to Anne Touboulic and Jane Gover for their article "Tales from the countryside: Unpacking 'passing the environmental buck' as hypocritical practice in the food Supply Chain".
Best Paper Award to Joséphine Riemens, Andrée-Anne Lemieux, Samir Lamouri, Léonore Garnier for their paper "A Delphi-Régnier Study Addressing theChallenges of Textile Recycling in Europe for the Fashion and Apparel Industry
Download the abstracts of the two winning articles:
Agility in the warehouse means agility in the supply chain. But what about real estate scalability? And what will be the contours of tomorrow's warehouse against a backdrop of sustainable development? Through a dedicated webinar, experts from the sector provide some answers.
What are the keys to the warehouse of tomorrow? For Vincent Barale, VP supply chain at Louis Vuitton, the most important factors are the safety and well-being of employees, outdoor spaces and the agility of the building: "We have to commit to the construction of a building for the next 20 or 30 years when we have no idea of the structure of the turnover in the coming weeks. The building must be hyper-agile to keep up with our evolution, to be able to adapt to everything," he stresses. Faced with this observation and the need to integrate a sustainable development approach, what are the prerequisites that can be considered from the design and construction of the building?
Towards an agile and welcoming warehouse
Mario Gallinelli, Systenza's Engineering and Development Director, stresses the need to design the largest possible cell sizes with precautionary measures for subsequent recuts; the optimisation of free storage heights according to fire protection constraints; and the sizing of floors for possible uses: mezzanines, robotisation, mechanisation, etc.
With regard to safety and comfort, Mario Gallinelli mentions the survival zones on the platforms, the pre-painting of the roofs and cladding in white, the natural lighting and the heating and insulation designed for temperatures adapted to the operation.
Outside the warehouse, in addition to the fitness trails, terraces and ponds, Mario Gallinelli insists on the issue of primary forests: "This creates a stable and resilient ecosystem, results in a reduction in noise and dust, and helps to reduce the additional amount of carbon in the atmosphere," he explains.
Tertiary Decreeand reduction of the carbon footprint
These adaptations are all the more important given the promulgation of the tertiary sector decree, which requires each asset to reduce its consumption by 40% by 2030 compared to a reference year between 2010 and 2020, a percentage that will rise to 50% in 2040 and 60% in 2050. In order to respond to this, Benoit Dubois Taine, a partner specialising in energy for logistics and the tertiary sector, for Systenza, recommends a four-stage approach:
Define your objectives
Choose your actions
Anticipating carbon issues
Split the costs between landlord and tenant
A simple and easy to implement approachand explained in detail in the webinar
Decree No. 2019-771 of 23 July 2019, on obligations to reduce final energy consumption in tertiary buildings.
Share our solutions to make progress togetheron our environmental challenges.
The environment is a major issue today and will be even more so tomorrow. In our warehouses and logistics platforms, you all have successful environmental initiatives. With this challenge, we invite you to highlight your key initiatives for the rest of the community to learn from.
Each participant shall :
Offer a field visit of one of its warehouses
Participate in the proposed visits by other participants
to give rhythm to this process
coordinated by Édouard Laumonier of Louis Vuitton.
It will run from November 2021 to July 2022.
Join us, make yourself knownto the SC4Good team!
Take part in this fun challenge to go further and faster together.
FRANCE SUPPLY CHAIN is aiming for a massive mobilisation to make the commitment for 150 trucks possible before the end of October.
In a world where the supply chain accounts for 60% to 80% of business activities, the development of sustainable solutions has become essential for organisations concerned about their environmental and social impact. From raw material purchasing to storage and manufacturing, road transport is the source of many of the negative externalities of the supply chain. To support companies in a greener approach, new technologies are emerging offering a multitude of responsible solutions.
With this in mind, FRANCE SUPPLY CHAIN, in association with Club Déméter, has decided to accelerate the transition of road freight transport towards clean vehicles for local use.
During Movin'on 2021, several workshops onhydrogen in heavy goods mobility enabled them to realise the need to create a robust ecosystem for the emergence of these new technologies. However, the implementation of hydrogen trucks would imply transforming the vehicles and the energy distribution points in order to place them in strategic locations in the territory.
Bringing together professionals around this project is essential for the deployment of hydrogen solutions in order to offer shippers and carriers sustainable solutions for the supply chain.
Within the framework of this initiative, SupplyChain4Good is proposing that companies join the movement with a view to creating a consortium under the aegis of FRANCE SUPPLY CHAIN to respond to a European call for projects.
On 23 September in Albi, 42 members met for the launch operation with the presentation of the project and the testing of a hydrogen truck. At the same time, Club Déméter was also exploring thisH2 track through the involvement of its members in POCs but also during a collective exploratory phase in Switzerland.
You will perform a self-assessment of your Supply Chain maturity.
This self-diagnosis, created by the LAB ETI/PME of France Supply Chain from a selection of 22 questions of the Reference frame of Excellence of France Supply Chain, has for only objective to provide an evaluation of the degree of maturity of the fundamentals of your Supply Chain and to position you compared to the best practices of the field.
The data provided are for the exclusive use of France Supply Chain to feed a database allowing each respondent company to compare itself against anonymized averages.
In order to allow you to make this comparison, the filling of this diagnosis requires the collection of your contact information.
You will perform a self-assessment of your Supply Chain maturity.
This self-diagnosis, created by the LAB ETI/PME of France Supply Chain from a selection of 22 questions of the Reference frame of Excellence of France Supply Chain, has for only objective to provide an evaluation of the degree of maturity of the fundamentals of your Supply Chain and to position you compared to the best practices of the field.
The data provided are for the exclusive use of France Supply Chain to feed a database allowing each respondent company to compare itself against anonymized averages.
In order to allow you to make this comparison, the filling of this diagnosis requires the collection of your contact information.
