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By Xavier Derycke, VP Supply Chain Transformation Rexel Europe
A 2022 guide to higher education to promote supply chain functions
Supply Chain functions are not yet fully valued by the general public and especially by young people. For several years, France Supply Chain has been developing tools and resources to encourage vocations and to show the different ways to access Supply Chain functions.
In 2020, a guide to higher education courses had already been produced by the LAB Richesses Humaines. It allowed to formalise the vast French panorama of the existing Supply Chain training courses for companies but also for students. It is now a reference. But skills and training programmes are changing.
This year, we are renewing the process by updating this guide with the brand new 2022 edition. Since 14 March, several training organisations have been contacted to collect information on the 140 courses identified.
The exchanges with the heads of the courses will also be an opportunity to better identify the pools of future talents on the one hand and to reinforce the France Supply Chain network on the other.
If you are a training organisation and would like to highlight one or more of your Supply Chain courses, please contact us to appear in the next edition of the guide.
If you are a company, talk about it around you, to encourage even more vocations!
HIGHLIGHTS
Bus centres for urban distribution
RATP Logistics has just made two new bus centres available to Amazon in La Garenne Colombes and Châtillon, to enable the e-tailer to organise its last mile logistics. These sites will be operated by Ecolotrans, a carrier that has been resolutely green since its creation in 2005. It should be noted that the Bagneux site will use AutoStore technology, a compact robotic order preparation system that allows a large number of products to be stored in a small space. We can only welcome such an initiative, which is a logical continuation of the actions already undertaken by the RATP group "to imagine the city of tomorrow". Indeed, the scarcity of land in dense urban areas, the reduction in delivery times (particularly under pressure from consumers) and more restrictive urban policies are encouraging private and public players to find solutions that are both pragmatic and climate-friendly. By making unoccupied property available at certain times of the day, the RATP Group, and in particular its subsidiary RATP Solutions Ville (1), is following a virtuous logic aimed at "committing itself every day to a better quality of city". The fact remains that cities throughout the country are faced with numerous urban, social and environmental challenges that require profound changes. However, if such local initiatives are appreciable, and even necessary, to respond to distribution problems within a short timeframe, it seems essential that the political level quickly seizes them to set the guidelines and the regulatory framework for a well thought-out, coherent, efficient and sustainable urban logistics.
(1). The RATP Group has combined the expertise of four of its subsidiaries into a single entity: RATP Habitat, RATP Real Estate, RATP Connect and RATP Capital Innovation. The City Solutions by RATP Group offer aims to provide integrated solutions. RATP Logistics is one of the key components of this offering.
NOT TO BE MISSED
Automating supply chain IT tasks
The Supply Chain x RPA White Paper realized in partnership with Wavestone is published! It presents RPA, its use and its benefits for Supply Chain activities. The automation of time-consuming supply chain processes has become a major challenge.
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