Métamorphoses avec Elles: voices of change

Written by webm@ster the May 17, 2024. Published in News-semi-public-privees.

The path to change also starts with parity, the complementarity between men and women. This article looks back at the important and inspiring initiatives shared by supply chain and logistics professionals at a round table discussion at SITL 2024.

Sabine Vu

Founder-president of the association
Olga Alexandrova

Associate Director, Land Division
Marie Defrance

assistant to the deputy president of CSIAM, and member of the board of Femmes en mouvement
Marie-Laure Furgala

Director of ISLI at Kedge Business School's Global Supply Chain, in charge of the women's community at France Supply Chain
Jean-Christophe Machet

Managing Director, FM Logistic

How can we attract more women to the supply chain and logistics industry?

4% of drivers are women

In France, in 2023,

Marie Defrance: It's estimated that France has a shortage of around 60,000 female drivers. But decarbonization could be an opportunity to recruit more female HGV drivers, particularly in the context of HGV electrification.

Electric trucks mean better working conditions, which may attract more women:

No vibrations under the seat, as there is no longer an internal combustion engine;
No more noise in the cab;
And for urban logistics trucks that leave their internal combustion engines running, the driver is exposed to chemical risks.

To complete the picture, as far as manufacturers' initiatives are concerned, we can mention improvements to the cab, the bed, and then the toilet and washbasin offer new hygiene and safety conditions. We can also see that more inclusive solutions for women would also be beneficial for men.

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And in the warehouse?

JC Machet: When we sometimes have to carry loads, our employees are equipped with exoskeletons, load-assisting tools, whether they're men or women. So our businesses, which are increasingly equipped, can accommodate both men and women in materials handling.

Marie Defrance : Among ACIAM's member manufacturers, there are numerous initiatives and indicators in place to help women progress, including mentoring, coaching and training initiatives, to help women progress within companies. So I think this is a sector that's on the move when it comes to women and diversity of career paths.

JC Machet: The supply chain is an extraordinary playground for tomorrow's talent. In fact, today, I almost apologize for talking about women in the supply chain. In the supply chain, we need talent. We need to work on making our professions more attractive, regardless of gender.

The inspiring example of FM Logistic

women represent 20% of the workforce and 18.5% in the transport and logistics branch

In the transport sector as a whole,

JC Machet: Where we face a real challenge is on the jobs that are posted, which are often covered by men. So we need to make progress in our companies to find ways of making these jobs as welcoming and accessible as possible for our female employees at any time of day.

So, positions put forward, referents. And then, very shortly, we're going to start a training course reserved for our female employees. Because I believe there's nothing like a collective movement to inspire, reassure and encourage.

It's the complementarity of all profiles. We need to talk about diversity more than just gender. Diversity will ensure that companies are solid, strong and resilient, and that we live in a collective where everyone feels good.

It's true that logistics, warehousing and transport aren't jobs where you'd expect to see many female employees. And yet, this idea may have been true 30 years ago, but it's no longer true today.

49% of FM employees are women. The figure speaks for itself, and I'd like to say that this is only to be expected in a sector where we're recruiting, in a sector where there's a dynamic of development, in a sector that's reinventing itself by integrating new trades, automation, and seeking out new skills such as IT, data, analysis, and indeed also notions of sustainable development. Unfortunately, I have to admit, at executive level, we're at 41%, but again, that's beyond the conventional wisdom. And I want to communicate this positive information.

We need all the skills we can get, and it's just unthinkable at FM that we can't recruit from 100% of our potential.

The challenges of training and talent sourcing

the number of women entering and applying to engineering schools fell by 6%.

In 2023,

M.L. Furgala: I don't have parity in the sourcing of my students. I'm 70% male, 30% female. It's a little less unbalanced on the international side. I have more women with international profiles coming to my master's program. Nevertheless, every year I notice an erosion of engineering-type profiles, which account for around 30% of my recruitment.

Switzerland is in the process of putting forward a 2030 project, because they are well aware that if they don't recruit enough people in logistics and supply chain, this will be a brake on the country's economic development. It's about time France got its act together on this front.

It's a market that's recruiting, and we're short of manpower, we need to recruit, and we lack attractiveness. And it's true that France Supply Chain is working hard on this. Making a little-known profession attractive, a profession that is always difficult to explain to those around you.

Solutions to think differently about the world

M.L. Furgala: And why is it so important to have women in this business? Because if we don't, the tools that are going to be put in place will be gendered. You mentioned artificial intelligence. If women don't participate in the development of these tools, then artificial intelligence tools will be gendered.

So it's going to be a loop, but not a virtuous one. It's going to be a loop that's not going in the right direction. So we need to work on our attractiveness in the broadest sense. We can't do without half the world's population.

Foreigners have understood this much better than we have. There are many more women in countries other than France.

JC Machet: So, we share slightly different realities and we can see that culture gives a certain impetus. In fact, we have the same ratio as I told you at Group level, 49%, but the situation is a little different from one country to another. In Poland, for example, we have over 50% female employees. And among our managers too, i.e. we have many female executives and managers in Poland.

But many countries are matriarchal, from my point of view. And on the other hand, there are other countries where we still have a lot to do. We're in India. And there, on the other hand, we have an extremely low rate of feminization of the workforce, with less than 10% female employees.

What are we doing, for example, to support this movement, since that was one of your questions?

With the help of the Group's foundation and the involvement of our employees, we opened a classroom to bring back and welcome back young girls who had dropped out of school, so that they could get back on the train. Because in a family in India and in other countries, children are sometimes also a source of income for the household.

Why a community of women in supply chain?

39% according to the latest Gartner report for 2023 and is becoming rarer in executive positions at 26%.

The proportion of women in the supply chain is only

M.L. Furgala: We felt a bit alone. We needed to be able to exchange ideas, to have a network. So this community met a need. And among the actions we've developed, the notion of role model has come to the fore. This young generation needs to identify with us, they need to know that it's possible.

And the best way to show them this is to put forward inspiring profiles. So we've set up inspiring webinars with women in senior Supply Chain positions, where there's no question of taboos, including on the management of personal and professional life, gender diversity and the feasibility of combining the two.

I insist on the importance of having the right support when you're in a position of responsibility, because children are a shared responsibility. And it's also important for parents to act as role models for the new generation we're training.

What we'd like to develop now are tools to help these women in their day-to-day work to network, gain self-confidence and develop themselves, so that we're a little more present on company boards, since it's a profession, it's a social elevator, but we still need to be representative on management committees.

Marie Defrance: I think role models are very important for projecting oneself onto a career path, for breaking down gender stereotypes, especially in our transport and logistics fields, and for trying, in fact, to open up the field of possible careers for women in this sector.

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

Written by webm@ster the May 15, 2024. Published in News-semi-public-privees.

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.

Supply Chain, what is it and why?

The notion of Supply Chain is still abstract for the general public and in the media. It is akin to logistics, itself too often limited to transport and storage. The Supply Chain manages product flows, information flows, financial flows, physical infrastructures and human organizations.

It is strategic to the conduct of public policies and the achievement of transformation, resilience and sovereignty objectives. The supply chain accounts for over 80% of a company's carbon footprint.

For years, by optimizing flows, the Supply Chain has enabled globalization while underestimating or failing to integrate the impacts it generates on people and the planet. Seeking ever greater agilitý and responsivenesś, engaging ever more raw materials, more kilometers, more fossil energy, more ^impacts1 and creating ever more fragility as we see with successive events impacting our economies and even the protection of our fellow citizens.

In 2021, France Supply Chain published its first Manifesto in response to this drifting trend. The latest update of this plea was published in December 2023(Manifeste pour une Supply Chain frugale et désirable).

France Supply Chain calls for "Supply Chain Experts

Our commitment is clear : our Supply Chains must become sustainably frugal and positive, i.e. sober to produce just what is needed, optimize flows, reduce fossil fuels and embody strong values based on collaboration, ^solidarity2 and the meaning of our professions. In this way, they will contribute to consolidating the organizational chains of companies and society.

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^Resilience3 and China with the B.R.I.(Belt and road initiative⁾⁴. If these issues are taken into account at the highest level, we will be able to face up to the crises that lie ahead and support the economic and environmental performance of our countries, in the common interest.

The meeting will be publicized in the press over the next few days, to highlight the need for everyone to take account of the importance of the supply chain in the organization of value chains, and the absolute necessity for the European Union to build and implement a European strategy of sovereignty based on the mastery of supply chains.

¹ 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/.

² 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/

³ https://www.lesechos.fr/monde/etats-unis/la-maison-blanche-se-transforme-en-tour-de-controle-des-chaines-dapprovisionnement-2037487

⁴ http://geoconfluences.ens-lyon.fr/glossaire/routes-de-la-soie

The first concrete results of the E.VO.L.U.E. project for more efficient urban logistics

Written by webm@ster the April 18, 2024. Published in News-semi-public-privees.

Christelle Seiller, Mobility Director, GPSO, Xavier Hua, Managing Director, Institut du Commerce, Gaëlle Quéré, CSR Director - Distribution and Express, GEODIS, Tariel Chamerois, Head of Sustainability France & Maghreb, DB Schenker, Jean-Baptiste Derdoy, Mobility Manager, PTV Logistics and Nathalie Woock, Head of Freight and Transport Companies, Région Île-de-France, absent today.

Discover the story of E.VO.L.U.E through the testimonials of the 5 speakers at our conference at SITL 2024.

How did this happen? Where do we stand today? And above all, how can the project continue in the coming months or years?

A regional, multi-player pilot project

X.Hua: E.VO.L.U.E stands for Engagement Volontaire pour une Logistique Urbaine Plus Effice. It's an initiative which I'm going to describe in a little more detail, and which began about two years ago.

This initially private initiative is credited to 3 associations. The first, and it's not a very good one, but the first one I represent is the Institut du Commerce. The other 2 associations you know well are Club Déméter, which runs the logistics fresco just behind. And France Supply Chain, which is really the Vertical Supply Chain association for all sectors. As you can see, these 3 associations are totally complementary.

We had this strange idea of working together, of wanting to work together and ultimately pooling our entire network of members to work on more efficient urban logistics.

Then, in the middle, there's the test area, the Grand Paris-Seine-Ouest and its various communes. This represents 330,000 inhabitants. The area is both very urban, with Boulogne and Boulogne-Billancourt for example, and a little more rural. Marne-la-Coquette, to the very west of this territory. And you have a river in the middle, the Seine. So it's a very representative area, with constraints that are quite interesting for urban logistics.

Finally, below are the sponsors and technical partners of this project:

The Île-de-France region

which is subsidizing this initiative
LLC, associate

for the legal framework
PTV

for all data processing
SprintProject

on project management and innovation

Data: more than 25,000 deliveries and pick-ups in the GPSO area

X.Hua: Let's come back for a minute to an extremely important point for the future, which we spent a lot of time on: providing a totally secure legal framework so that contributors, including DB Schenker and Geodis, but also others, can share their data in complete confidentiality.

The project as such, for those who followed us 2 years ago or a little more, we presented this project with several phases. The first was data collection. Because it was extremely important to know what was happening on a territory with contributors, with shippers, with economic players delivering goods on this territory.

3 contributors have agreed to share their names: Geodis, DB Shenker and Raja

All these figures represent 400 deliveries or pick-ups per day. That's a pretty substantial volume. I may be avoiding the question by saying, yes, it's only 5 contributors, but in the end it represents a volume of data which is entirely relevant and on which we have results which are very interesting to share.

Results and solutions for our cities

JB. Derdoy: PTV logistics was responsible for processing the data submitted by our partners. We collected a total of over 25,000 deliveries and pick-ups in the GPSO area and analyzed them. Thanks to our software solutions, we were able to reconstitute the routes and carry out various analyses, two of which are presented here.

The first approach: how can we move from 20% of pick-ups and deliveries served to a better rate and a better level of service?

There are currently 260 parking areas in the GPSO area, represented by the yellow triangles. They can handle 5,000 deliveries, assuming a 50-meter catchment area. So 5,000, i.e. 20% of deliveries and pick-ups are within the catchment area of a parking area in the area today. Based on this observation, we carried out the exercise ofincreasing the supply of delivery areas to see what level of service we could offer to deliveries and pick-ups.

We took the exercise a step further and went as far as 1,000 parking areas, covering 90% of deliveries and pick-ups in the area.

The second exercise: positioning 3 urban hubs in a relevant way on the territory

We also analyzed delivery vehicle journey times. Traffic jams have relatively little impact on routes within the region. On the other hand, when it comes to getting from the depot to the area's accessibility, there's a real challenge. To be able to carry out deliveries and services from 9 a.m. onwards, you have to leave early and be on the Île-de-France main road network at the height of the peak period.

In other words, to be able to cover the territory, but also to be on routes that are relatively accessible to road traffic. From these positions, we would be able to serve 95% of deliveries and pick-ups in the area, while respecting the issue of urban boundaries and the Seine, which imposes constraints in terms of traffic, with a theoretical catchment area of 2 km.

Testimonials from Géodis and DB Schenker

What are Géodis' strategies for urban logistics?

"It's an ecosystem that we need to structure to manage to improve our logistics and reduce our impact together." Gaëlle Quéré
What do these maps bring to DB Schenker?

"This project ultimately accompanies the vision of the transformation of the goods distribution chain that we manage, by shedding light, admittedly by a team working under private law, but which nonetheless sheds light on the landscape as a whole, and which I hope can also make a wider contribution and ultimately shed light on local authorities" Tariel Chamerois.

I say there's no shared urban hub, is that true or false? What initiatives are you supporting?

What lessons for the region?

C. Seiller: So, in terms of lessons learned, it was very clear to us that it enabled us to objectify a feeling and quantify it. To do it properly, we'd have to do four delivery areas, because we realize that delivery points are extremely diffuse. Here, at least, I've got the quantity, and I know I won't be able to do it, i.e. making 4 times as many delivery areas in an already constrained urban environment is very complicated. Every day, we're confronted with the need to use parking space for other purposes, in particular the installation of charging stations for electric vehicles.

Make temporary experimental tactical logistical tools and say, " We'll demonstrate their usefulness and then we'll be in a position to make them permanent, to reserve land in a more proactive way.

How can we go further?

X. Hua: there are two avenues that have been identified, the first with the gpso region and the players present here on the notion of shared urban hubs, because we realized that there were no initiatives, no concrete realizations of shared urban hubs between several economic players and operated by several service providers.

The other approach, which was in fact the one pursued at the outset of this project, is to model an approach, a kind of kit in fact, of tools for going to local authorities and saying "if you want to manage urban logistics in your area as efficiently as possible, we can provide you with a whole methodology".

We're ready to test this methodology on another territory.

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Supply Chain Day: France Supply Chain takes stock with its members and sets its sights on 2024

Written by webm@ster the March 29, 2024. Published in News-semi-public-privees.

For this annual exercise, the association, its members, partners and guests were welcomed to the Orange Gardens, Orange's Innovation Campus. A great place to look back on the highlights of 2023 and present the projects launched or expected for 2024. During this event, the association is always keen to promote innovative companies that share its vision, such as Zéphyr & Borée, Skipper and Agence du Don en Nature.

The 3 announcements of Supply Chain Day 2024

Annie Saillard, Vice President Operation at Alstom Digital & Integrated Solutions, took to the stage to give an update on active communities and announce the launch of a planning community to meet the profession's need for exchange and mutual support. "It's a subject close to my heart: in an increasingly volatile world with crises to manage, I think planning needs to be revisited".

The^1st sailing container carrier

supported by the Shipper Coalition for a Low Carbon Maritime Transport (SCLCMT) will soon be entering the production phase.

As a reminder, this coalition was born two years ago on the initiative of 12 shippers and thanks to the alliance of 2 major industry associations, France Supply Chain and the Association des Utilisateurs de Transport de Fret (AUTF), and it was the start-up Zéphyr & Borée that won the tender for a weekly transatlantic link. Alain Goll, Supply Chain Sustainability and Transformation Leader at Adeo Services and Secretary General of the shippers' coalition, was on stage alongside Amaury BOLVIN, Co-founder and CEO of Zéphyr & Borée, to announce the news.

France Supply Chain is teaming up with national and regional associations to reach out to more SMEs and help them transform and mature their supply chains. The players involved in these partnerships are :

Emmanuel Gioux, Supplier Responsiveness Program Director at L'Oréal and Christian Daudu, President of the Pôle d'Intelligence Logistique.

A few figures to sum up the actions and results of 2023

Sébastien Sanchez, Managing Director at Page Group, recalled the success of the Supply ChainExecutive Compensation Survey carried out in collaboration with Michael Page. Already 4,000 downloads between our 2 websites.

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Marie-Laure Furgala, Director of KEDGE BUSINESS SCHOOL's ISLI MS/MSC , then took to the podium in her capacity as head of the #femmesensupplychain community. She emphasized the importance of providing female role models to attract, retain and encourage more women into supply chain and logistics management.

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Inspiring webinars and their speakers

Discover these inspiring women

Last year, the Digital & Techno Lab produced a great deal, in particular 4 white papers on data, the digitization of transport, RPA and warehouse automation, which to date have accumulated almost 700 downloads, as well as a survey of use cases that enabled the Lab to refine its 2024 roadmap.

Use the "Innovation, digitization & new technologies" filter to find publications in the resource bank.

What about 2024?

Human resources to drive the supply chain

This year, the Lab has embarked on the drafting of a Guide to good practice in onboarding and monitoring work-study students , with the support and methodology of researcher Blandine Ageron from Grenoble University. A qualitative survey has already been carried out, and will soon be supplemented by a quantitative survey of our members.

The next major project will start in September: updating the Guide des Formations Supérieures en Supply Chain, with a publication target of 2025. A core team will be formed, supported by a France Supply Chain work-study student dedicated to the project.

In video and on stage: Laurie Ziegler, Mathis Hebert, Alexandre de Luca, Mathieu Pouhal, Khalil Ghazouani, Maxime Bouquin, Inko Arandia

The mission of the Lab Richesses Humaines and its extension, the Lab Jeunes, is still to democratize the image of the Supply Chain. The association's student-members are committed to raising awareness among students and high-school pupils, either directly in their schools or through active communication on social networks.

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Lab Digital and Technologies squads meet their public

After 1 month of weekly meetings (monthly for intralog), the team has noticed a real enthusiasm for the new Lab format, which has seen its membership double! More agile, less time-consuming and with short-term productions, very much oriented towards use cases. The 1st deliverables are expected in just 1 month.

Arnaud de Moissac, Co Founder - CEO of DCbrain, Jérôme Bour CEO / PDG, and Karine Louarn, logistics consultant at EOL.

For the current squads, we've concentrated on 5 topics, with the aim of both producing and clearing or sharing knowledge: digital maturity grid, data for CO2 monitoring, S&OP, generative AI and intra-logistics. Future topics will be decided by members at the next Lab meeting.

Projects to go even further and faster in CSR

Aimé-Frederic Rosenzweig, Expert Leader Supply Chain at Groupe Renault, Camille Demarquilly VP Global Supply Chain Engineering at Michelin, Pénélope Laigo, Group Sustainability & QHSE Director at FM Logistic, Florence Mazaud, Sustainable Solutions Manager at Sightness, Anaïs Leblanc Partner - CSR, Sustainable Operations and Demand Driven Management at Citwell, Reuben Fisher and Aurélie Delemarle.

For the ^1st time, we shared our joint work with The Shift Project and IDDRI in public. Reuben Fischer took the floor to explain the value of corporatedecarbonization plan challenges, which are carried out in small groups to guarantee the quality and confidentiality of exchanges.

Reuben FisherFreight Project Manager at The Shift Project. He is also CSR & Sustainable Development Director at HOPPS GROUP.

Another fundamental, yet little-known project: foresight, or the study of the impact of climate change on the supply chain. A project led by Aurélie Delemarle, in charge at Argon of Sustainability Development in Industrial Processes and Product and Service Offerings, which involves building scenarios to respond to the crises expected in 2040 (temperatures, water stress, rising sea levels, biodiversity).

Finally, Anaïs Leblanc indicated that workshops to co-construct circular Supply Chains will start in April. These will be face-to-face meetings to benefit from the experience of players who have already integrated large-scale loops into their supply chains, and to build the skills of the ecosystem.

A new Board of Directors at the helm

To carry out our mission, we are fortunate to be able to count on committed members at our side, and in particular the directors who have all renewed their confidence in us this year. Two new directors have joined the ranks of the governance team, divided between the 2 colleges:

College 1

federating industrial, trading and distribution companies, logistics service providers and healthcare structures
College 2

representing: service providers, associations, federations, research and training organizations and individuals

Welcome to

Henri de La Gravière

Senior Vice President & Global Supply Chain
Sébastien Sanchez

Managing Director

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Many thanks to our members who turned out in force for the 2024 edition of Supply Chain Day, during which our Annual General Meeting was held, and to Lionel Benezech, Supply Chain Director at Orange, and his colleagues for their warm welcome. This day was an opportunity to re-mobilize the vital forces of our association around a common ambition: a frugal and desirable Supply Chain!

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What are the paths of change? A look back at SITL 2024 - Salon International du Transport et de la Logistique

Written by webm@ster the March 26, 2024. Published in News-semi-public-privees.

This year, SITL - and no longer SITL - set itself the goal of giving us a glimpse into the logistics of the future. As a long-standing partner of the show, we took part in this challenge by organizing and participating in numerous round tables. What can we learn from the 3-day event? Here's a summary of the most important news and information.

Warning signs and convictions for the Supply Chain of 2050

At the inaugural conference, Anne-Marie Idrac, President of FRANCE LOGISTIQUE, Mathieu Friedberg, Managing Director of CEVA Logistics, and Jean-Thomas Schmitt, CEO of Heppner, shared their vision for the Supply Chain of the future and France's competitiveness:

Sharing value

The solution will involve a sharing of costs, responsibilities and value between shippers, logisticians, customers and suppliers. " In 10-15 years, the supply chain will cost a lot more," warns Mr. Friedberg.

Mixing solutions

to decarbonize
Ports and territorial coverage

will be key
Harnessing the massive potential of AI

to optimize our operations and organization

A vision that France Supply Chain shares, and to which we must add a strong human dimension. An article will be dedicated to the conference #SITL24 - Metamorphoses with them: the voices of change. To achieve our mission and ambitions, we published a "Manifesto for a Frugal and Desirable Supply Chain" at the end of 2023, packed with hundreds of inspiring solutions and initiatives.

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Meeting the challenge of supply chain risk management

At the 50 Nuances de Risques conference hosted by our partner Wavestone, co-leaders from the risk community accompanied by Luca Silippo, chief economist and strategy analyst at Geodis (find the replay of his keynote at our 2023 European Congress at the end of this article) and Guillaume Walline from Prewave shared their expertise.

"Transforming emergencies into structures and systems within the company is my day-to-day job".

Luca Silippo

Managing risk in the supply chain is strategic, and the speakers gave us examples from their own practice:

Bring the Supply Chain up to the level of the CODIR, to ensure the neutrality required for decision-making. For example, resource allocation in S&OP.
Create an industrial metaverse (or digital twin) coupled with a control tower to support decision-making in near-real time. This innovation integrates information from their 4,000 n-1 suppliers, part of their 60,000 N suppliers, and up to 5,000 customer sales outlets in 130 countries (for Renault).
Use AI to map networks and identify weak signals.
Calculate before you decide! Managing risk means using quantitative guidance. Risk must be summed up in a figure.

A final word of advice

Building an anti-fragile Supply Chain, i.e. learning from crises to be more efficient and more than resilient, returning to a point of "improvement". Healthy, sustainable and desirable performance.

Grégoire VIALLON, Thierry BLEIN, Luca SILIPO and Guillaume WALINE

Combating preconceived ideas and the poor image of the supply chain

JOB DATING AND RECRUITMENT PATHWAYS

France Travail (formerly Pôle Emploi) was on hand to help job seekers help jobseekers discover the world of Supply Chain and Logistics and to support companies in their search for talent. A welcome initiative, given that our professions are in short supply and suffer from a lack of attractiveness.

Regional planning

Yann DE FERAUDY, Gabriel SCHILLACI, Thomas STEINMULLER and Pedrouller MOREIRA

Warehouses have a bad reputation and are the focus of much debate, yet they account for only 2% of land use in France. Their location is strategic for territories, both economically (job and income creation) andenvironmentally (heavy goods vehicles stay out of towns, solar energy hub, water reserve via rainwater recovery and reduction of transport-related GHG emissions).

At the Warehouse location: a strategic choice for territories conference, speakers called on public authorities to think collectively and intelligently, and to include all stakeholders in future location projects or new legislation (referring to the Zero Artificialization Law).

Christelle Seiller - Mobility Director of Grand Paris Seine Ouest (GPSO), Gaelle Quéré - CSR Director - Distribution and Express GEODIS, Tariel Chamerois - Head of Sustainability France & Maghreb DB Schenker, Xavier Hua - Managing Director of Institut du Commerce, Jean-Baptiste Derdoy - Mobility Manager PTV Logistics and Nathalie Woock - Head of the "Freight and transport companies" department of the Île-de-France Region.

We held another landmark conference: E.VO.L.U.E: les premiers résultats concrets pour une Logistique Urbaine Plus Efficiente. We launched this project alongside Club Déméter and the Institut du Commerce, in response to the major challenges facing urban logistics, namely the massification of flows and the need for sustainability. We'll come back to this in a separate article.

Ways to make the supply chain sustainable

Digital tools and new technologies

Among the wide range of solutions on offer at the show, the quest for performance seemed to be the key criterion: optimization of flows, operations and document processes, automation, robotization, etc. Fortunately, the program of conferences and debates gave pride of place to decarbonization and circularity, and the innovation prizes rewarded offers providing a response to the challenges of cyclo-logistics and eco-packaging.

The Start Up Village organized by SprintProject featured a host of innovations in the fields of labor-saving, zero-impact transport, carbon footprint calculation via AI, and green energy production on logistics buildings. The overall winner of the Start Up Contest 2024 is Deki ecologistic, a company based in Marseille, which we had the pleasure of meeting at the ISLI 2023 forum! Its tool offers city delivery routes optimized according to 3 criteria, known as minimum impact: GHG emissions, congestion and noise pollution.

Circular supply chain: rethinking our models

The conference, organized by France Supply Chain, was a resounding success, demonstrating the interest of professionals in the profound transformation of our processes and business models. Thanks to the experience of the rail industry and the initial work of the SupplyChain4Good Lab, the audience was able to discover several concrete examples of the implementation of circularity loops:

A strategy for recovering rare minerals from railcar and locomotive equipment.
Industrial maintenance and retrofitting of train sets, known as "8-life maintenance".
Choice of materials and design of simple, robust railway structures.
Integration of reuse material management into S&OP via a loss/recycling ratio.
Geographical and usage tracking of parts and materials.
Implementation of an AI-based preventive maintenance system.

Linear supply chains, although optimized, are reaching the limits of our resources. There are many other ways of integrating circularity into our organizational models and adopting more virtuous consumer behavior. We'll be exploring them in the^2nd workshop dedicated to the circular supply chain.

"Frugality is one of the virtues of the circular economy".

François-Michel Lambert

Speakers: François-Michel Lambert, President of SOROA, Vice-President of the Interdisciplinary Association for Circular Economy Research, Igor Bilimoff, General Delegate of the Fédération Des Industries Ferroviaires, Yann de Feraudy, President of France Supply Chain and Anaïs Leblanc, Partner Citwell.

From Artificial Intelligence to General Intelligence

To open the^2nd day of the show, Olivier Babeau, founder of the Sapiens Institute, took to the SITL stage to talk about the future in terms of the past and the history of major innovations.

"The history of mankind is the history of acceleration", so how can we adapt to such rapid change? These days, the brain is the number 1 asset, which leads to a polarization of power in favor of those who own the technology (as evidenced by the stock market listing of NVidia, Apple or Microsoft). Then came AI.

"We were not prepared for the merging of capital and labor", but now whoever has the best AI has the power, because it improves performance, quality and reduces costs. Note that what we call AI today is intelligence in the American sense of the word (intelligence as the processing of data). The exponential evolution of AI is leading us towards a very near future in which intelligence will become a "commodity", a future in which AI will surpass us.

Representation of the observed and expected evolution of Artificial Intelligence

So where does the human being fit in?

We'll need to hybridize with the machine, to become complementary, and to do this, we'll need to train even better and continuously to avoid any atrophy of our abilities and any possibility of replacement. Live performance, relationships and exchanges between humans will regain their value. The economist therefore recommends working on emotional intelligence and communication.

In conclusion, SITL 2024 offered an enlightening vision of the future of logistics and the supply chain. Discussions highlighted the need for profound transformation, from increased collaboration to risk management and the adoption of innovative technologies such as AI. While addressing crucial issues such as sustainability and circularity, the show highlighted the crucial role of the human in this evolving landscape, calling for a harmonious hybridization between man and machine, placing the emphasis on continuous learning and the development of interpersonal skills.

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replay of luca silippo's keynote address at our 2023 european congress

Luca SILIPPO's keynote gives a different view of the supply chain, one that is both human and moving.

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SUPPLY CHAIN RISK MANAGEMENT NOW HAS ITS OWN COMMUNITY OF EXPERTS

Risk management is a profession, know-how and a state of mind...

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HOW TO BUILD CIRCULAR SUPPLY CHAINS?

On November 22, Lab SupplyChain4Good and our partner Citwell orchestrated a dynamic working day...

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The new Lab Digital et Technologies launches its 1st 2-month sprint

Written by webm@ster the February 13, 2024. Published in News-semi-public-privees.

From February 26, for a period of 2 months, Lab members will be testing a new, agile and dynamic way of working. Divided into 5 squads, each led by a manager, they will share and co-construct deliverables for the community.

1 squad = 1 subject = 1 autonomous team

Expected results: applicable, concrete resources (practical worksheet, webinar or reference document) and key learnings to enable your projects to be scaled up to the corporate level.

The advantage of this new formula is that you can commit to a controlled timeframe.

Here are the 5 themes aka squads for the^1st quarter 2024:

Data maturity grid

Tuesdays from 8 to 9 a.m.

Objective: to finalize a V0 analysis grid for testing within each of the squads. This grid will enable companies to determine which use cases to address according to their maturity. In a second phase, the grid will be homogenized in the light of the results observed in the 4 other squads.

Data governance and_CO2 calculation

Fridays from 8 to 9 a.m.

Objective: to propose methodologies for correctly measuring and comparing carbon emissions. The approach will be complemented and illustrated by concrete case studies.
Back to S&OP

Wednesdays from 12pm to 1pm

Objective: to take a quick look at the state of the art, then work on new technologies and possible models to be more granular, automated and agile in the face of market volatility and crises.
Generative AI

Thursdays from 12pm to 1pm

Objective: share a list of use cases that are either in thesis or deployed, to give ideas, highlight what has worked and warnings.
Intra logistics

Dates to be defined after publication of their Panorama

Objective: to work on retrofit, end-of-life and rental of handling, preparation and storage solutions. The aim is to address the issue of long-term investments in a somewhat turbulent context.

Conditions for joining a squad for 2 months (and more if you wish):

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Commit to 8 hours of effort per contributor over the duration of the sprint.

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Prize for the best sustainable supply chain article - 2024 Edition

Written by Elorri THICOIPE the January 26, 2024. Published in News-semi-public-privees.

As part of Lab Supply Chain 4 Good, France Supply Chain and the the International Association for Research in Logistics and Supply Chain Management (AIRL-SCM) launch the 3rd edition of the Best Sustainable Supply Chain Article Award.

The objective of this initiative is to reward a scientific publication that makes a significant contribution to the field of sustainable supply chain management. This operation allows to highlight academic works of excellence in the specific fields of logistics management and Supply Chain Management.

Who can participate?

The 2024 edition of this prize is open to teacher-researchers who have published an article in one of the two journals associated withAIRL-SCM or in a peer-reviewed scientific journal in the field of Supply Chain Management between January^1, 2023 and December 31, 2023. Papers may be submitted in French or English.

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 topic for France Supply Chain members (e.g. link with Labs, link with Manifeste pour une Supply Chain frugale et désirable)

Potential impact of results (e.g., potential to influence decisions in business or public organizations)

Nature of research contributions: academic, methodological, managerial

Innovative nature of the research

Practical application and consideration of ecosystems

The winner(s) will receive a €2,000 prize from France Supply Chain. The award ceremony will take place in La Rochelle during the Rencontres Internationales de la Recherche en Logistique, on May 29, 30 and 31.

How and when to apply?

Entries for this "Prize for the best article in Sustainable Supply Chain -Edition 2024" 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

The 2024 winners

This year, the Best Sustainable Supply Chain Article award failed to decide between the last 2 papers in the running, so deserving were they of the award, on very distinct themes. We therefore have 2 winners in this 2024 edition:

Ex-aequo: Introducing a framework toward sustainability goals in a supply chain 4.0 ecosystem by Saoussane Srhir, Anicia Jaegler and Jairo R. Montoya-Torres of Kedge Business School, France and School of Engineering of Universidad de La Sabana, Colombia.

The authors argue that Industry 4.0 technologies are the innovation capacity that should be supported to move supply chains from their linear model, known for its high energy and resource consumption, to a circular model where technology replaces intermediaries and drives operations towards sustainability and efficiency.

The study demonstrates the impact of integrating Industry 4.0 technologies into each of the Supply Chain Operations Reference Model (SCOR) processes to build Supply Chain 4.0, and links the resulting capabilities of this transformation to the potential achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Ex-aequo: Cognitive digital twins for freight parking management in last mile delivery under smart cities paradigm by Yu Liu, Shenle Pan Thierry Coupaye, Pauline Folz, Fano Ramparany and Sébastien Bolle from Mines Paris, PSL University, Centre for Management Science (CGS), i3 UMR CNRS, France and Orange Innovation, France.

This paper examines the problem of Freight Transport Parking Management (FPMP) for last-mile delivery in the context of smart cities where objects are managed by digital twins.

The results suggest that the connectivity of digital twins translates into :

greater logistical efficiency,
a reduction in negative externalities
better use of resources.
potential new business services for logistics service providers
new management information for municipal planners and decision-makers.

This paper also presents a case study of parcel delivery in Paris using Orange France's Thing in the future (Thing'in) platform to demonstrate a real-world application of this approach, complemented by a prototype mobile application.

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Inspiring Webinar: tête à tête with the Industrial Director of Ateliers de Maroquinerie Louis Vuitton

Written by webm@ster the January 25, 2024. Published in News-semi-public-privees.

On Wednesday January 17, the spotlight turned to Valérie Dubois, Industrial Director of Ateliers de Maroquinerie Louis Vuitton. With 5000 employees across 9 sites, this woman of influence reveals the behind-the-scenes of her professional and personal daily life, offering a rare insight into the life of an accomplished executive. This immersion in her day-to-day reality reveals the challenges she brilliantly meets and the inspiring lessons she shares with the public.

The daily life of an Industrial Director

Thanks to questions from Marie-Laure Furgala, Director of KEDGE BUSINESS SCHOOL's ISLI MS/MSC in Global Supply Chain, Valérie Dubois takes us through her busy days, oscillating between strategic meetings at head office and immersion in production workshops. This duality between the tangible in the field and strategic discussions in the head office reveals her unique balance.

As a mother of two, she also shares her approach to reconciling an intense professional life with a fulfilling family life. She explains, for example, that she quickly made the choice to be less present, to sometimes come home late, but to be 100% present to share quality moments. In this way, she was able to combat her feelings of guilt.

When it comes to managing her time, she shared with us her clever strategy of hiring an au-pair. This decision has enabled her to put an end to the frantic race against time. What's more, in order to take a step back when operational demands become overwhelming, she regularly plans moments dedicated to her well-being, whether through relaxing pampering sessions or running sessions to free her mind from the daily hustle and bustle.

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Break the myth of "luck" and cultivate self-confidence

As a woman in a leadership position, Valérie Dubois reveals her career path, highlighting how she overcame the obstacles she had sometimes imposed on herself, notably through the way she presented herself and explained her presence in the position of Site Manager. " I used to say, 'I've been lucky', but that's not true, it's something you bring on yourself, and it's the result of who you are and the work you do".

She encourages women to be clear in their positioning right from the start of their career, to dare to change and to test, because that's how you learn continuously and because "that's what gives salt in your career". What's more, such trajectories help build self-confidence and confidence for the future.

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Her views on coaching and how she has used it in her career

If I had to do it all over again, I'd call on them sooner to get feedback, coaching and 360° vision.

According to Marie-Laure Furgala's guest, this type of service helps to build self-confidence, legitimize oneself and therefore dare. It gives you the keys and the mindset you need to compete for a new position or build the next stage of your career.

But how do you find them, and how do you find trusted mentors? As a manager, Valérie Dubois has a clear opinion: "Companies need to have a real mentoring strategy, it's really important". One-to-one support from a senior employee is a career booster, and also helps to retain talent. This is as true for a junior as it is for an experienced employee whose qualities are recognized and whom we want to take on new responsibilities.

Operations and production: an enlightened passion

Operations are more than just processes; they embody agility, complexity, diversity, and an unwavering quest for sustainability. It's more than just mechanics, it's a source of inspiration that aims to amaze and sparkle in the eyes. Every intervention in the operations has a tangible impact, and the human element is inseparable from these production activities, lending an essential dimension to the whole.

It's the heart of the reactor, where we understand how added value is built up, and who are the people involved, the support professions [...] Manufacturing products as leanly as possible, generating less and less waste, also gives us missions.

The uniqueness of this approach lies in a deep passion for the product, expressed through obsessive attention to detail, a commitment to quality, and mastery of exceptional craftsmanship. It is not simply an end result, but occupies a central place, permeating every stage of production.

For Valérie Dubois, Industrial Director of Ateliers de Maroquinerie Louis Vuitton, production and the product are more than just functional elements of her job; they are the driving force behind her career, giving it essential meaning .

A vision of management

To deal with crises, she encourages us to look at and analyze situations through "2 pairs of different glasses":

The company view
Employees' view

That's how she believes she succeeds in bringing about far-reaching structural change, overhauling work organization and, of course, getting her teams on board. On this last point, she confides that she had to find unprecedented solutions when she became the boss of her colleagues. Her answer? Collaborative management.

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This^3rd inspiring webinar offered viewers an endless source of inspiration, practical advice and an enlightened vision of professional and personal success.

One last tip?

The network you build up, even in a variety of sectors and professions, feeds you for tomorrow. It pays off in the same way as your own experience.

Thanks to Valérie Dubois

for the invaluable lessons she shared with us with generosity and candor.

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with Annie Saillard, Vice President Operation Digital & Integrated Solutions at ALSTOM and Stéphanie Rott, Director of Operations at GUERLAIN

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with Laëtitia Balac-Ruscher, Supply Chain and Logistics Director/Member of Groupe MonoprixComex and Latifa Gahbiche, General Manager SULO France & Switzerland (leading European supplier of innovative sorting solutions).

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FAQ

What books can Valérie recommend to help us gain self-confidence?

I can simply recommend a very interesting book: "L'affirmation de soi : Mieux gérer ses relations avec les autres" by Dominique Chalvin (Edition ESF Sciences Humaines).
I've been retraining for 3 years (Bachelor+Master), but how can I "target" a specific Supply Chain job and activity, beyond the size of the company?

The key is experience in the field. Explore various Supply Chain sectors and discover the realities of the field. Consult our guide to higher education courses for detailed advice and guidance tailored to your career path.
The right product, the right place, the right time, the right resources and the right information? Shouldn't we be encouraging girls to go for IT-oriented courses as well as Quality, Industrial Logistics and Organization courses?

Absolutely! For complete success, encouraging girls to go into IT is essential. In addition to the traditional courses, IT plays a crucial role in the supply chain. Take a look at our guide to higher education courses to discover the various paths available.
Do you have any advice on training courses (with or without certification) that provide important keys to a career in supply (in parallel with a job when you're already working)?

Certifying and non-certifying courses can enrich your Supply Chain career while you work. Consult our guide to higher education courses for specific recommendations, as the choice depends on your professional goals and your availability.

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How to build Circular Supply Chains? A look back at a collaborative workshop

Written by webm@ster the January 22, 2024. Published in News-semi-public-privees, Uncategorized.

On November 22, Lab SupplyChain4Good and our partner Citwell orchestrated a dynamic working day, bringing together over 50 people from a wide range of professional backgrounds. Companies, institutions, academics, local authorities and associations came together to share their expertise and experiences, affirming together that the circular supply chain is essential for a circular economy.

Objectives of the Circular Supply Chain workshops

The key idea guiding the day was the conviction that transforming supply chain models is essential to embracing circularity. Indeed, to keep pace with changing business models, the supply chain must also adopt a circular approach, given its cross-functional nature.

The workshops focused on three key objectives:

Aligning with the transformation of supply chain models required for the flyer

List the obstacles and levers YOU have encountered on the way to the newsletter

Mobilizing energies to build a circular supply chain coalition

Exploring the Circular Supply Chain

Fascinating conferences deepened our understanding of the circular supply chain. Two testimonials highlighted crucial topics: the decarbonization of transport and circularity in textiles. These examples revealed innovative operational processes and strategies, going beyond conventional methods such as reverse logistics and reusable packaging.

Expert voice - Anaïs Leblanc - PARTNER AND SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION MANAGER at Citwell

Four loops, four lines of thought for concrete, operational results

The day was structured around four fundamental loops:

Intensifying usage: how to maximize the use of existing resources?
Repair and Redistribution: explore opportunities for product repair and redistribution.
Remanufacturing and sustainable production: how to build robust, sober products?
Recycling: how to recover materials, regulatory and technical developments, and traceability?

The workshops produced over 30 concrete, rapidly operational solutions, the result of the commitment and creativity of the participants. The second workshop, focused on resolving the obstacles identified in the morning, was particularly fruitful.

Categorization of workshop solutions

Financial assistance / MO

Great proposal

Sharing group

Working group

Experimental track

Service

Awareness

Research topic

After the non-tangible "big ideas", the majority of proposals were for knowledge sharing, followed by more or less specific working groups. Some tangible means of providing manpower or premises and know-how

The pragmatism of the proposed actions

Not tangible for us

Necessary prerequisites

Short term

40% non-tangible principles, 33 actions that could be launched if pilots and coordinators were identified.

The day was the scene of an enriching collaboration and generated practical solutions to steer the Supply Chain towards circularity. These tangible results testify to the willingness of players to transform their practices for a more sustainable future. We'll soon be inviting you to take part in our series of testimonials, starting in April. Share your experiences, successes and challenges in implementing circular practices within your Supply Chain.

Together, let's build a future where circularity becomes the norm.

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France Supply Chain and ELA announcements: a look back at For Supply and Beyond

Written by webm@ster the December 18, 2023. Published in News-semi-public-privees.

Chairman's words

Monsieur de Feraudy, a trick question to begin with: did you want to organize this event?

Yes, I wanted this event. About a year ago, I received an e-mail from Thomas Wimmer (president of the BVL) who wanted to re-enact the famous Franco-German couple and revive the ELA. I was naturally very interested. We need to learn from each other, we need to work together to get the best practices.

That's when our partnership with Supply Chain magazine came into play, as they organize the Rois de la Supply Chain, and every year, together, we present our champions at the ELA Awards. And it just so happened that last year, in 2022, France won the ELA Awards. And it occurred to me that we could have a kind of Eurovision-type organization where the winner organizes the next edition.

It seemed only natural to seize the opportunity of the 2023 ELA Awards to organize the event marking the milestone of a new ELA governance and also marking a new habit: tonight's winner will have to organize the same event next year.

With For Supply and Beyond, what ideas did you want to put across to the industry?

In 2020, we were looking for a mission and it turned out that we all wanted to use the Supply Chain as a lever for greater sustainability. We are the ones who, with our teams and their skills, are truly essential to create more sustainable supply chains and a more sustainable world. So that's our motto and what we want to do. And we continue to go further(beyond).

We talked aboutsocial impact, circularity, slowing down flows, but also about setting up collaborative ecosystems. These are all subjects that are the subject of debate and questioning, and that our members are developing in the new version of our Manifesto.

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How does it differ from the previous version?

In 2021, the French Senate invited us to an interview with a series of questions on the theme "How can we be more sustainable?". We prepared a working document showing the reasons to believe in such a scenario thanks to Supply Chains. The result was our first Manifesto.

In that version, we didn't name the companies that provided the examples and achievements, but in this new version, we've decided to name the projects and companies that agreed to testify. It's a collection of use cases to inspire others, and to share with those who want to know more about replicating these successful projects.

Why have you chosen to reveal your advocacy for a Frugal and Desirable Supply Chain at this event?

What I've just told you only works for France. What we've learned is that very often the answer is beyond constraints, solutions beyond limits of your company alone, you need to work together. You see beyond is everywhere today. But it's not enough for the French to work together. We need to learn from each other at a European level. I therefore invited all our guests to get hold of this Manifesto and to work together to enrich and complete this document with their own examples.

Mr. Markus Mau (President of ELA), any comments?

A new era of collaboration and interaction is opening up, and this represents real added value for all of us. But to go beyond that, how do we control it? ? How can we be sure that what we consider important is taken care of in the right way and sent to a distant destination?

We have ELA certification, an individual certification attesting to specific skills in Supply Chain Management and Logistics. We are currently adapting it to take into account the new requirements of CSRD, ESG and so on. This work is being carried out jointly by industry and academia, and will ensure that the person you hire meets the standards defined by the ELA and its members worldwide. This goes beyond any university certificate.

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Congress highlights

Luca SILIPO's keynote gives a different view of the Supply Chain, one that is both human and moving.

In this extract, our speaker of the day uses the example of coffee to show us that there are two ways of thinking about the Supply Chain:

A sequence of actions

that lead to a café
A series of people

that lead to a café

Transformative Power of Supply Chains on Social Sustainability by Luca SILIPO, Chief Economist, Supply Chain Leader and Independent Thinker

It is this second axis that he has chosen to explore in greater depth, by appealing to our emotions, our memories and our relationship with objects. Luca Silipo demonstrates a hopeful vision for rethinking the future, taking into account the global impact of companies on the city and its inhabitants. A reflection on how to control the power of societal links and how to make them more powerful.

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The 6 innovative projects of the finalists at the ELA Awards 2023

In turn, French, Slovenian, Austrian, Spanish and Swiss entrepreneurs took to the stage to talk about the birth of their projects, their objectives and the results achieved. Digital and technological transformations to harness and transmit data were at the heart of the ceremony, with the use of blockchain, artificial intelligence, AGVs (Automatic Guided Vehicles) and more.

The 6 finalists, including the winner of the 2023 edition, are :

The warehouse of the future for our teams and performance

by Leroy Merlin and France Supply Chain by ASLOG
Optimising international trade and customs clearance with blockchain technology

by NAFEZA & CARGO X and the Slovenian Logistics Association
Warehouse optimization through automation

by RWA member of the Austrian VNL association
Supply Chain Control Tower

by SEAT SA from Centro Español de Logística (CEL)
Visual SLAM Localization and Navigation for Mobile Robots in Logistics

by GS1 Switzerland member SEVENSENSE
Digital Logistics Corridors

by USYNCRO from ICIL Institute

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The role and challenges of Supply Chain associations in Europe

The main themes discussed at this round table of association presidents :

What are you doing in your country? What are your priorities today?
What are the best sustainable supply chain practices in Europe?
How do you work together? What do you collaborate on?
How do you work with the European authorities?

Yann de Feraudy
Konstantinos Haniotis

Managing Director at Telenavis S.A. and ELA vice-president
Xavier Rius

General Director of the ICIL Institute

A look at sustainability in the supply chain

During this^2nd round table, the speakers presented the concrete solutions implemented in their companies or with their associations on the subjects of energy transition, decarbonization of freight, as well as arduous work in transport or warehouses.

One of the key issues is the financing and cost of implementing such a transformation. These 4 practitioners gave us their answers and their vision of a sustainable business model.

Thanks to :

Camille Demarquilly

VP Global Supply Chain Engineering at Michelin
Romeo Dumitru

Logistics Director at ELBI ELECTRIC & LIGHTING and Vice-President of ARILOG
Ramon Garcia

General Manager of Centro Español de Logística (CEL) and Vice president of the innovation cluster for sustainable delivery of freight (CITET)
Aimé-Frédéric Rozensweig

Supply Chain Expert Leader at Renault Group