L'ASLOG MATERIALIZES ITS NEW AMBITIONS WITH A NEW NAME: FRANCE SUPPLY CHAIN

In an increasingly complex world, the Supply Chain players, brought together within ASLOG, intend to affirm the strategic role of the Supply Chain as a lever for a more sustainable world. To support these new ambitions, the ASLOG is changing its name to FRANCE SUPPLY CHAIN. Carbon footprint reduction, digitalization,
skills... the association relies on the power of collective intelligence and its LABs to enable all Supply Chain players to meet the challenges of today and
tomorrow.

THE SUPPLY CHAIN, THE COMPANY'S NERVOUS SYSTEM

Supply Chain is a real lever for business performance and today represents 60 to 90% of the cost price of products. It concerns both downstream and upstream of the product cycle: purchasing, supply, production and quality, customer experience. In addition to this,
includes design functions (industrial strategy, flow design) and management functions (stocks and flows, in and out demand management). It captures information from all over the world to feed rapid and aligned decision-making. A veritable nervous system of the company, it goes well beyond logistics and the vast majority of Supply Chain managers are now part of the Comex of major groups.

THE SUPPLY CHAIN TO CHANGE THE WORLD

The Covid 19 pandemic and the resulting uncertainties have added to the permanent challenges facing companies: increasingly demanding consumers in terms of deadlines, prices and respect for the environment; the disrupted supply of natural resources due to climate change; the accelerated pace of technological innovations
.

All the Supply Chain actors gathered within the association have thus defined a new common ambition: Supply Chain to change the world. It is based on five key convictions:

Customer: putting the customer experience at the heart of operations.

• Resilience: knowing how to anticipate risks and manage crises.
• Talents: better recruiting, improving attractiveness and skills.
• Positive impact: having a positive societal and environmental impact.
• Collaboration: vector of creation throughout the chain, with all stakeholders.

To be consistent with this ambition, which now forges the identity of the association, the members of the ASLOG logically decided to change its name to FRANCE SUPPLY CHAIN.

Yann de Feraudy, President of FRANCE SUPPLY CHAIN explains:

“FRANCE SUPPLY CHAIN and its members want to help transform businesses by building Supply Chains that are more resilient, more agile, more connected, more respectful of people and the planet. It is by committing ourselves in this way, together with the men and women of the Supply Chain, that we will respond to the urgent need to make our world more sustainable for the consumer and the new generations.“

ASSIST IN BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION

FRANCE SUPPLY CHAIN already federates 450 companies of all sizes (large groups, ETIs, SMEs) and from all sectors of activity, bringing together a total of 3,000 employees, and also welcomes service providers to cover all aspects of the Supply Chain.
To support companies in their transformation, it uses its asset: the strength of the network and the power of collective intelligence.
In concrete terms, FRANCE SUPPLY CHAIN notably enables its members to exchange best practices within its LABs, working groups dealing with major cross-functional themes, such as :

• The Digital LAB (animated by François MARTIN-FESTA from Schneider Electric). This group works on 5 strong themes: Artificial Intelligence, Data Exchange, Robotisation Processes (RPA), Connected Objects (IOT) and Supply Chain Innovation. These topics are addressed during meetings, webinars or site visits with testimonials from one or two companies presenting use cases. At the same time, a Panorama of Digitalisation 2019-2020 has been drawn up following a survey of companies. It will be updated every year.

• The HR LAB (led by Xavier DERYCKE, Supply Chain Director Europe of the REXEL Group and Philippe RAYNAUD). Aware that the attractiveness of professions, skills development and training are the HR priorities of companies (survey conducted in 2019-2020), the LAB RH offers many tools to enhance the value of the Supply Chain: