Companies have understood this: the status quo is no longer an option! Between the climate emergency and the desire to consume more responsibly that is taking root in our societies, the world of the Supply Chain is not immune to these transformations and must reinvent itself to integrate this new situation.

After several months of work on this topic, Wavestone and France Supply Chain are proud to present their publication on the Green Tech Supply Chain Radar, during a webinar that will address these issues.

The Supply Chain suffers from old clichés. Little known and very often summed up as masculine, physical and not very rewarding tasks, the Supply Chain professions are struggling to attract the younger generations. Faced with the lack of attractiveness of the sector, how can vocations be created? What are the levers that could be used to enhance the value of the professions and change mentalities? A look back at the dedicated Webinar, organised by France Supply Chain, in partnership with SprintProject.

Attractiveness of professions, a major challenge for an active supply chain

Fabien Esnoult, President of SprintProject(www.sprint-project.com) and administrator of France Supply Chain, introduces the stakes of the theme by underlining the indispensable and strategic character of the Supply Chain sector, revealed at the height of the health crisis. In this respect, the active maintenance of the workforce as well as the challenges of recruitment, loyalty and training take on their full meaning. How can we respond to the growing needs and HR problems encountered by the sector? Certain innovations such as autonomous vehicles, IOT, 5G and the dissociation of transport and logistics seem to be possible solutions. But are they the only ones?

In this respect, the LAB RH of France Supply Chain, represented on this occasion by Marie-Laure Furgala, ISLI Director of Kedge Business School, and Guillaume Noirtin, Talent Acquisition Director of FM Logistic, is a working group of about twenty professionals, partners or active contributors from the world of Human Resources or Training. The ambition of the HR LAB is to promote the Supply Chain and to respond to the HR priorities of companies, which are: to recruit better, to improve the attractiveness of the sector and to develop new skills in the Supply Chain professions.

"I didn't know the Industry and Supply Chain sector before I joined FM Logistic. I had many preconceptions myself. I finally discovered an exciting sector at the heart of company strategies, a creator of value and an incredible diversity of professions."
Guillaume NOIRTIN

The Supply Chain, in perpetual evolution, is constantly looking for new skills to meet new needs. But if companies are constantly recruiting, the employees themselves must be trained or trained in the new challenges of the sector and more particularly in: the environment, societal challenges and new technologies. These are some of the topics covered in the ISLI - Kedge Business School Supply Chain course.

Innovation to improve the attractiveness of supply chain jobs

My Job Glasses was created a little over 5 years ago with one ambition: "Professional fulfilment for all". But to be fulfilled, Emilie Korchia, co-founder of My Job Glasses, assures us, you must already be well oriented. My Job Glasses puts people at the heart of career guidance by connecting young people aged 15 to 30 with a network of 52,000 professionals from all professions and sectors, including the supply chain. As the leading player in mentoring in France, My Job Glasses has helped more than 100,000 young people in 2020 in their professional orientation.

It is also, for the company, the possibility to create a pool of young talents interested in the Supply Chain sector and to initiate a CSR action of corporate citizenship. For the employees, it is also an opportunity, by giving a little of their time, to share their profession with the younger generations, to represent their company and to deconstruct clichés, and sometimes to have the privilege of inspiring vocations.

"My Job Glasses is not there to sell glitter to the younger generation, but to share with them the reality of the jobs and allow them to discover all that is hidden behind the word 'Supply Chain'"
Emilie Korchia

Delivery Academy, takes its source at the crossroads of the last mile and urban logistics, explains Augustin Doumbe, its Founder: "where the men and women of the sector, route parcels from local warehouses, to the end customer". In 2017, there were 11,000 self-employed bicycle delivery entrepreneurs. Today, there are more than 60,000. At the same time, the increase in the number of salaried employees in the urban delivery sector confirms the evolution of consumption patterns and new needs, including the customer experience. How do you win over a customer and then build loyalty over a 30-second delivery?

"Customer experience is a job [...] While delivery drivers are the only faces the customer meets between ordering and receiving, training seems to be the solution to provide a quality experience! »
Augustin Doumbe

Indeed, while recruitment is a perennial problem in the Supply Chain, so is retention. By offering training courses ranging from a few hours to several weeks depending on the profile, the Delivery Academy offers a training solution as a means of increasing skills to make the jobs more attractive and to enhance their value.

For the second year, France Supply Chain surveyed its members in the autumn to understand how their companies have progressed with their supply chain (SC) in a more digitalised environment, but also with supply chains under pressure from the disruptions caused by the pandemic.

The responses obtained provide a good picture of the transformation and progress made since 2019. Indeed, the companies that responded have a total of 1 million employees and generate 200 billion euros in turnover in very different sectors.

The respondents to the survey represent :

1 MILLION EMPLOYEES

200 BILLION CA

Moreover, the relevance of the evolutions since the 2019 panorama has been reinforced thanks to a stable core of France Supply Chain members having participated in the 2019 and 2020 surveys. The trends were corroborated by the members of the France Supply Chain Digital & Technologies and ETIPME Labs.

After having unveiled its Guide to Higher Education in Supply Chain, France Supply Chain is initiating a new project to bring schools and companies closer together: the creation of pairs of professors and administrators of the association. The objective? To act together within the pedagogical councils.

Centrale Supelec, ESSEC, Sorbonne, ISTELI, MINES ParisTech, University of Grenoble, AFTRAL, E.S.T... At the initiative of France Supply Chain, under the leadership of Xavier Derycke, supply chain director of the Rexel group and head of the HR Lab, many training organisations, schools, universities and IUTs have responded to the association's call to forge lasting links between its administrators, active members and the world of training. To lay the foundations of this new synergy and establish a lasting dialogue between supply chain companies and the various spheres of training, France Supply Chain has chosen to form pairs comprising a representative of each of them. Thus, Felix Papier from ESSEC will establish a special link with Yann de Feraudy, the president of France Supply Chain, while Nadia Hamani from INSSET will communicate in particular with Jean-Christophe Cuvelier, general manager of My Tower, and Aurélie Delemarle from ESIEE with the supply chain director of Orange, Benoit Huver.

Through two successive meetings, the association has therefore brought together, beyond their organisations, men and women who are keen to act together for the development of pedagogical councils dedicated to the supply chain . In total, nearly thirty duos will act within the schools' pedagogical councils, in order to strengthen the links with the establishments offering masters or bachelor's degrees in supply chain and to encourage interaction between different types of teaching and research, notably through the sharing of knowledge and the work of the association's Labs.

Forming a collaborative ecosystem for Supply Chain Training

These exchanges are all the more necessary since, as Xavier Derycke points out, the supply chain is "a profession that is being enriched, in constant search of a balance between service, stocks, costs and sustainability, driven by the major transformations underway: digital technology and CSR". Thus, alongside the association's various Labs (Digital & Technologies, HR, Supply Chain 4 Good and ETI PME), the players in this new project will be able to exchange and develop training with the desire to act to build a more resilient, collaborative, agile, close and sustainable world. "The crisis has accelerated the pace of change in these professions and many things are changing as a result. I am delighted to contribute to moving things forward at the French level and perhaps one day at the European level," said Evren Sahin, professor at Centrale Supelec. "We have a lot to offer each other: you have the raw materials and we will provide you with the human resources. Let's continue like this, together, to form a collaborative ecosystem," emphasised Olivier Lavastre, University Professor at Grenoble IAE.

Finally, in parallel, the HR Lab will continue its work this year, in particular on

Leaders of tomorrow in partnership with Korn Ferry

New supply chain jobs with the help of Michael Page

A focus on initiatives for young people in the supply chain

400 companies and over 3,000 supply chain employees. France Supply Chain brings together many players in the sector in France and elsewhere. Its international division, which now has new chapters in America, is aimed at its employees throughout the world. 

To further anchor FrSCInter and its chapters in the "FrSC movement

Launched at the beginning of the year, France Supply Chain International is to animate 30 chapters (or clubs) in the 5 major regions of the world, namely Europe, Africa, Asia, the Americas and the Middle East. At the heart of this large-scale project lies a conviction born from the raison d'être of France Supply Chain: to put the supply chain at the heart of the strategy of companies for a sustainable performance, for a more responsible world. And in order for the movement, initiated by the association and supported by all its members, to take on an international dimension, France Supply Chain International has already started its deployment all over the world.

The Morocco, Kenya and Ivory Coast chapters were launched on 21 January. Today, it is time for the Americas. "This is an immense territory of more than one billion people, made up of 35 countries that vary greatly in terms of problems, maturity in terms of supply chain and crisis management. There is a real dichotomy between the North and the South with regard to Covid. The pandemic has had a lasting impact on our supply chain, so there is no shortage of issues that we will tackle one by one, depending on the territory," says Anne-Élisabeth Duchesne, Senior VP AM Latin Market Line Operations at Geodis, based in Nashville, Tennessee.

America & Supply Chain: a common subject and multiple issues

Through a network that its members wish to be "friendly and benevolent", three objectives will animate these new American clubs:

Welcoming and exchanging with new entrants to these markets

Sharing know-how and experience

Monitoring technological and environmental developments in the sector

"France Supply Chain offers a unique opportunity for exchange, a real asset to connect our teams and succeed in our regional anchoring while sharing our experience", says Annie Saillard, VP Rolling Stock & Component PL AME of Alstom in Canada.

The first chapters in the North of the continent around the cities of Montreal, New York and Miami will open in 2021. The next chapters, focusing on the South via the territories of Seattle, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Sao Paulo and San Diego de Chile, will open in 2022. In the North, in New York, Laurent Mialhe, SVP GBSC of Estée Lauder, will welcome the chapter. In Montreal, it will be Albert Goodhue, partner at GCL and finally Anne Pasquier, Senior VP Supply Chain & Global Sourcing of Starboard Cruise Services within the LVMH Group in Miami. The line managers will be put to work very quickly, as a kick-off will take place on 29 April. Motivation, dynamism, desire, expertise and exchanges will be on the menu of this first meeting presented by Anne-Elisabeth Duchesne as "an hour of discussion to identify the needs and expectations of those present, to define the subjects to be dealt with and to plan the next steps". And for all those who wish to join the movement, which is open to all the teams of the association's member companies, there is only one address:

contact@francesupplychain.org

What are the IoT levers capable of transforming the industrial Supply Chain? This is the question asked by the Digital & Technologies Lab of France Supply Chain and its guests during a webinar organized on March 30th. Focus on the experience feedbacks of Renault and Aubert & Duval (ERAMET Group) around geolocation.

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The digitalization panorama is now available in its entirety to France Supply Chain members.

This survey was conducted among our members and partners. The results published in this panorama allow us to measure the transformation of the Supply Chain, to describe the difficulties encountered, to identify the keys to success and to enrich our future actions.

"The crisis management of the COVID-19 and its major impacts for all companies has put their resilience under stress. So in this 2nd edition of the Supply Chain Digitalization Panorama we have taken a special look at it. The resilience and agility of our supply chains are particularly important areas of focus at the beginning of 2021.

It is also worth noting the emergence of issues related to cyber security that pose a major risk to companies and will lead us to organize exchanges on this topic in 2021."

Francois Martin-Festa, Coordinator of the Digital & Technologies Lab

THE DIGITAL & TECHNOLOGIES LAB - A COMMUNITY AT THE SERVICE OF TRANSFORMATION :

Based on the results of this second Panorama de la Digitalisation, the LAB Digital & Technologies team of France Supply Chain will continue, in 2021, the organisation of meetings on the 6 themes (AI, Data exchange, Robotisation process, IoT, Intralogistics and Innovation). It will produce new tools (radars) and webinars (experience sharing) to help companies understand their digital transformation.

This study of best practices focused on answering 4 main questions:

What transformations are these companies facing?

How is the digitalization of the supply chain a response to these challenges?

What projects are underway? What major initiatives are underway?

What are the challenges and successes of these initiatives?

Survey respondents represent :

1 million employees

200 billion € turnover