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By Jean-Marc Bacquet, Lieutenant General, General Officer of the Army in second section
Agility in Supply Chain
From agility to restlessness, there is only one false step that the confusion of words likes to sow on the path of the man in action.
Agility, a philosophy of action.
Beyond the method laid down in standardized procedures and artfully deployed by certified masters, agility is not limited to an assembly of ordered and timed tasks, useful in the management of complex projects. It is first and foremost immaterial, nourishing itself by walking at the source of the motivations of those who decide to undertake.
Akin to the old warrior spirit, agility is the philosophy that considers, without naivety, difficulties as opportunities and seeks to overcome obstacles in the never-lost perspective of achieving the designated goals. In short, agility is the lifeline of a moving will.
Agility, a rigor in action.
To understand the stakes of a moving world that often conceals, to accept the incompressible part of uncertainty that always disturbs, to adjust the right balance necessary for the right decision at the right moment that relaunches the action, are all part of a learning process that is slowly cooked with the experience of the blows of which each lesson must be read.
Proactive or reactive, agility requires an intelligence of situation worked which draws its science from the understanding of the springs of anticipation and reaction. It is not innate but a progressive and demanding acquisition that is sharpened by confrontation.
Agility, the daughter of the plan in action.
The sterile opposition between the cold and rigid world of planning and the warm and liberated world of agility does not stand up to the facts, which show that a group moves forward better when it sees the course to be followed while enjoying the freedom of action necessary to engage its own capacities.
In the pursuit of the chosen objectives, whose achievement will obviously suffer from the roughness of adversity and uncertainty, agility must guarantee the adaptability of the plan, whose starting hypotheses can be revised and whose deployment methods can be adjusted if not reversed. Agility is found in the plan, which it brings to life.
The center of gravity of a Supply Chain which wants to gain in agility thus relates more than elsewhere to the women and men who make it live and who allow it to survive and to strengthen itself by adapting it to the unpredictable contingencies of a world which will remain uncertain.
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The Guide to Higher Education in Supply Chain in France
On Monday, October 10th, the Guide des formations supérieures Supply Chain en France 2022-2023 was released. It is the reference support concerning the trainings to help the companies in their recruitment and the students in their orientations.
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