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France Supply Chain calls on European candidates to implement a European strategy for integrating supply chain expertise, "Supply Chain Experts".
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 ChainResilience3 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/.
4 http://geoconfluences.ens-lyon.fr/glossaire/routes-de-la-soie
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