Le Mensuel de la Supply Chain #24

Find this month :
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Vacation time for France Supply Chain
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RISC: President's recap
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Inspiring meeting with Anne Tran
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What to expect in the coming months



We wish you a happy festive season
and look forward to seeing you in 2025
for new projects!
For the festive season, France Supply Chain will be closing its doors from December 23rd to January 3rd.
We wish you a happy festive season and look forward to seeing you in 2025 for new projects!

The 3rd edition of RISC took place on December 5.
So we asked our president Yann de Feraudy what he thought, and here's what he had to say:

There are many things that I will summarize in 5 points:

Locality and agility :
What I take away from this day is that we're in a period of major change, and that's what's generating so much discomfort. Philippe Dessertine told us about these major changes: geopolitical and climatic changes, but also organizational changes.
In other words, today's big behemoths are under threat, and the future may lie with more fluid, more local, networked organizations.

The circular economy and collaboration:
we can see all the supply chain and logistics opportunities that will emerge from this, and that seems to me to be extremely promising.
Our manifesto talks about collaboration. We've had some incredible examples of collaboration with the wine coalition. Personally, I've really enjoyed having competitors working side by side, who believe that if one succeeds, they'll all succeed. There will be a kind of cascading of good news and opportunities. And that's good news, because we're preaching collaboration, because when it comes to sustainable development, the solution often lies outside the scope of constraints.

Technology :
To do all this, we talked about technology, and I really liked what Paola Fabiani had to say on the subject: "you have to use technology pragmatically". So there are very big solutions that aren't necessarily useful, and on the other hand, there are much simpler things that are extremely useful.
And the reality is that there are contexts where it works, and others where it doesn't. And that's what validates the idea of technology. And that totally validates the approach we take at LAB Digital et Technologies, which does just that. We make use cases, we don't say bad things about anyone, but we do say good things, and we give the conditions under which things have worked for some and for others.

[...] I think that at the heart of all this is the human element. We heard Florent Menegaux and I notice that the Michelin model of social innovation works, both when things are going well and when they're going badly. And that's a real lesson: we have to keep the human aspect at the heart of our business. Paola also talked about the need to train people in order to retain and develop them.
It's one thing to talk about talent, it's quite another to train men and women to work in our organizations and succeed.

I'd like to conclude with a message: yes we can! Yes we can. After all, France has restored its cathedral in 5 years, and Anthony Piqueras' Olympics experience was a real success, despite the jibes. And despite the bad news we've had since last night (Editor's note: motion of censure against the Barnier government), I think we're going to come out of this with our heads held high at some point, one way or another.
Because we're French, and the rooster never crows as loudly as he does on his dung heap!"



Inspiring meeting with Anne Tran :
Read Anne's testimonial and advice on career development, working abroad and balancing family and professional life with responsibilities and travel.


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