On June 18, the ASLOG/FRANCE SUPPLY CHAIN organized its first webinar after the deconfinement. On this occasion, the association's HR Lab once again stressed the importance of the men and women who have acted to ensure the continuity of economic activity in France.

Moderated by Philippe Raynaud, VP Supply Chain Europe Asia Pacific at BIC, in charge of the HR Lab and a member of the ASLOG/FRANCE SUPPLY CHAIN Executive Committee, the webinar was designed to share in a qualitative and privileged way the feedback from teams that have been working together during the crisis. The first testimonial was from the luxury brand Louis Vuitton, through the voice of Stéphane Fallon, Logistics Director: "During this period, we were able to rely on important prerequisites: a good social climate and a relationship of trust throughout the chain of command. Our employees needed to feel listened to and, paradoxically, to have a manager capable of guiding and reassuring them," he continues. To do this, the group acted quickly. From February 24, a crisis unit was formed and debriefed every morning. " Our management and our teams have enabled us to keep our warehouses safe," explains Didier Renard, Warehouse and E-commerce Manager Europe at Louis Vuitton.

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From service providers to partners

Another case in point, in the Oise region, at the heart of one of Covid-19's first clusters, is the collaboration between a client, Pierre de Saint Victor, Supply Services Director France & Benelux within the consumer goods group Reckitt Benckiser and its logistics provider, Vincent Derebergue, Director of the FM Logistic platform in Crépy-en-Valois: "We experienced the crisis about 15 days before everyone else in Crépy-en-Valois, but despite everything, our entire management team was there and our employees showed great resilience. The whole site understood the role it had to play," says Vincent Derebergue. For the teams at FM Logistic and RB, the result was a change in the way they work together, with transparency and trust. "We've gone from being a service provider to a partner," says Derebergue. Pierre de Saint Victor confirms this: "We have emerged from this crisis stronger in the concept of responsible collaboration.

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Making the link

Finally, Alexandre Berger, Business Unit Director - Logistics Solutions and Local Transport at La Poste Group, explained how the Group has managed to develop new services for citizens around the delivery of meals, shopping and medicines at home: "The fact that La Poste has been designated a vital interest organisation has been a motivation for the employees. This definition of our priorities has generated a real vocation to create new services", he explains. Thus, from this unprecedented experience, Alexandre Berger will retain the notion of "link". A link that the HR Lab of ASLOG/FRANCE SUPPLY CHAIN intends to strengthen by continuing its work through the publication of the panorama of Human Resources in supply chain and the first guide to supply chain higher education in France from the beginning of July.

Some see it as a project, others as a concrete project, and the last as a source of questions. The IoT for Supply Chain has been attracting the interest of the sector for many years. On the occasion of the "Rencontres du Digital", the ASLOG/FRANCE SUPPLY CHAIN and the consulting firm Wavestone returned to the subject through a dedicated webinar.

The crisis will have proved it. Despite its resilience, the supply chain still needs to develop its velocity, i.e. its agility and efficiency, to function optimally despite the disruptions. And to do this, the IoT is proving to be a powerful tool. Marc Dauga and Pierre-Yves Audoy, respectively Partner Supply Chain and Manager Manufacturing at Wavestone, and Francois Martin-Festa, VP Digital Customer Experience at Schneider Electric and Head of the Digital Lab at Aslog/France Supply Chain, led a dedicated webinar on this topic on June 24.

The objective? To share the keys to asking the right questions and making the right choice of dedicated solutions. " Above all, it is essential to start from a business need, to frame it, to feed a precise specification and to know the ecosystem of the players in order to choose the one best suited to your needs," emphasizes Marc Dauga after recalling the main principles of the IoT for supply chain, namely the collection and analysis of data from an IoT object placed on a handling unit (pallets, racks, bins, products).

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Tobetter understand
the technological bricks related to IoT

The three experts are unanimous in their view that conducting an IoT project can be complex. The first difficulty is the growing number of players offering their services. Marc Dauga notes "a 60% growth in five years in the number of start-ups in the sector. ». The second challenge is to understand and get to know the technology, which is evolving very quickly. In addition to continuous technological progress, Marc Dauga identifies 3 major breakthroughs: the 5G network, nano satellite and edge computing. As for the technological building blocks, they can be divided into four:

• The IoT object, its lifespan, its cost, its conditions of use and its collection and storage capacity.
• The network and data transport and the need to think about the distance between the object and the network, the data rate, the energy consumption and the precision objectives of geolocation.

• The IoT platform and its hosting location, its management of the life cycle of dedicated objects, its ability to integrate new types, to manage an increase in the volume of data and the number of APIs it can provide.
• Data application for use cases, i.e. web interface as well as supply chain tools such as TMS, WMS, MES...

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Identify and choose the right partner(s)
to optimize your supply chain with IoT

Once carefully selected and mastered, these bricks give rise to an IoT solution that addresses use cases with a virtuous impact on the transformation of the supply chain. Marc Dauga discusses product tracking (outdoor or indoor), product tracing, but also improving efficiency through inventory management, maintenance or even the piloting of the energy performance of buildings. And to best choose its service providers and partners in the start-up of an IoT project, Wavestone has identified about 50 French start-ups operating in the business, only on the BtoB market, with at least eight years of existence and less than 50 employees. "These elements provide the keys to asking the right questions, to better segment a project according to the 4 major dimensions of the IoT and to draw up a complete panorama of French start-ups on this subject", Francois Martin-Festa concludes.

The Wavestone-France Supply Chain white paper and radar are available on the website

The SupplyChain4Good initiative enables the delivery of 1,650 protective visors and valve connectors for respirators to the Strasbourg IHU.

To combat the Covid19 virus, the Supply Chain is more than ever at the heart of a France that is organising itself in the face of this unprecedented situation. Routing of basic foodstuffs and medical equipment: supply chains are becoming progressively tighter, less reliable and more vulnerable. However, the maintenance, solidity and security for several weeks of these priority supply chains are becoming vital.

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In this context, Movin'On and ASLOG , who are working on sustainable mobility solutions for goods through the SupplyChain4Good community, could not remain inactive. For several weeks now, part of the community has been organising the matching of available logistics capacities with the needs of the actors who are on the front line (hospitals, food distribution and basic necessities...).

In just a few weeks, this solidarity system made it possible to centralize, via a dedicated email, the needs as well as the available capacities. All requests are centralised and a team is in charge of consolidating them and then communicating with the right players.

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It is notably within the framework of this initiative that the #SupplyChain4Good community made it possible, between April 1 and 6, to send 1,650 protective visors printed in 3D to the IHU in Strasbourg.

On March 30, Luckylink, a company working on solidarity initiatives against coronavirus, contacted ASLOG via a dedicated email address(urgences@aslog.fr) to find a partner to ship 3D protective visors to the IHU in Strasbourg.

As part of the SupplyChain4Good initiative, Fabien Esnoult, ASLOG Board Member, SupplyChain4Good Project Coordinator and President of SprintProject, puts him in contact with Ahmed Chaieb, Founder of Box2Home, the solution for express delivery, assembly and installation of bulky products.

Following this connection and between 1st and 6th April, Box2Home collects from the companies Alchimies (Dieuze) and PIM Industrie (Marckolsheim) more than 1650 protective visors and makes the delivery to the IHU of Strasbourg. A detour to the home of a private individual was also organized, in order to recover a donation of valve connectors, intended for respirators, manufactured with his personal 3D printer.

#SupplyChain4Good

The #SupplyChain4Good community was created on the initiative of Michelin and the Aslog, as part of the Movin'On ecosystem, in favor of a more sustainable mobility of goods.

#SupplyChain4Good aims to bring together players working for Supply Chains that are simultaneously good for the planet, people and business performance.

The members of this community are "shippers" (industrial and commercial companies), "operators" (transporters, logisticians, shipping companies, ports...), "support functions" (academics, consultants, information systems, regulators, NGOs...). They cover all economic sectors and all regions of the world. Their work takes place throughout the year and culminates in the annual Movin'On Summit, the world summit on sustainable mobility.

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 #SupplyChain4Good #Covid19

Yann DE FERAUDY	ASLOGPresident
Pierre-Martin HUET	VP Global Supply Chain MICHELIN
Valérie MACREZ	Managing Director ASLOG
Ivan BATURONE	Vice President, Supply Chain Innovation MICHELIN
Fabien ESNOULT	Member of the ASLOG Board of Directors and Chairman of SprintProject
Alain BORRI	Managing Director BP2R
Augustin GUELDRY	Managing Director Colicoach
Frédéric MIREBEAU	President WelcomeTrack
Jérôme LEFORT	Lawyer Partner Law Firm LLC & Associates (Legal Expert)
Frédéric VAGLIO	Chairman Meliora Group (Security Expert)
Benoit AUJAY	Managing Director B2PWeb