Annie Saillard, Vice President Operation at Alstom Digital & Integrated Solutions, took to the stage to give an update on active communities and announce the launch of a planning community to meet the profession's need for exchange and mutual support. "It's a subject close to my heart: in an increasingly volatile world with crises to manage, I think planning needs to be revisited".

As a reminder, this coalition was born two years ago on the initiative of 12 shippers and thanks to the alliance of 2 major industry associations, France Supply Chain and the Association des Utilisateurs de Transport de Fret (AUTF), and it was the start-up Zéphyr & Borée that won the tender for a weekly transatlantic link. Alain Goll, Supply Chain Sustainability and Transformation Leader at Adeo Services and Secretary General of the shippers' coalition, was on stage alongside Amaury BOLVIN, Co-founder and CEO of Zéphyr & Borée, to announce the news. 

France Supply Chain is teaming up with national and regional associations to reach out to more SMEs and help them transform and mature their supply chains. The players involved in these partnerships are :

Marie-Laure Furgala, Director of KEDGE BUSINESS SCHOOL's ISLI MS/MSC , then took to the podium in her capacity as head of the #femmesensupplychain community. She emphasized the importance of providing female role models to attract, retain and encourage more women into supply chain and logistics management.

Last year, the Digital & Techno Lab produced a great deal, in particular 4 white papers on data, the digitization of transport, RPA and warehouse automation, which to date have accumulated almost 700 downloads, as well as a survey of use cases that enabled the Lab to refine its 2024 roadmap.

This year, the Lab has embarked on the drafting of a Guide to good practice in onboarding and monitoring work-study students , with the support and methodology of researcher Blandine Ageron from Grenoble University. A qualitative survey has already been carried out, and will soon be supplemented by a quantitative survey of our members.

The next major project will start in September: updating the Guide des Formations Supérieures en Supply Chain, with a publication target of 2025. A core team will be formed, supported by a France Supply Chain work-study student dedicated to the project.

The mission of the Lab Richesses Humaines and its extension, the Lab Jeunes, is still to democratize the image of the Supply Chain. The association's student-members are committed to raising awareness among students and high-school pupils, either directly in their schools or through active communication on social networks.

After 1 month of weekly meetings (monthly for intralog), the team has noticed a real enthusiasm for the new Lab format, which has seen its membership double! More agile, less time-consuming and with short-term productions, very much oriented towards use cases. The 1st deliverables are expected in just 1 month.

For the current squads, we've concentrated on 5 topics, with the aim of both producing and clearing or sharing knowledge: digital maturity grid, data for CO2 monitoring, S&OP, generative AI and intra-logistics. Future topics will be decided by members at the next Lab meeting.

For the ^1st time, we shared our joint work with The Shift Project and IDDRI in public. Reuben Fischer took the floor to explain the value of corporatedecarbonization plan challenges, which are carried out in small groups to guarantee the quality and confidentiality of exchanges.

Another fundamental, yet little-known project: foresight, or the study of the impact of climate change on the supply chain. A project led by Aurélie Delemarle, in charge at Argon of Sustainability Development in Industrial Processes and Product and Service Offerings, which involves building scenarios to respond to the crises expected in 2040 (temperatures, water stress, rising sea levels, biodiversity).

Finally, Anaïs Leblanc indicated that workshops to co-construct circular Supply Chains will start in April. These will be face-to-face meetings to benefit from the experience of players who have already integrated large-scale loops into their supply chains, and to build the skills of the ecosystem.

To carry out our mission, we are fortunate to be able to count on committed members at our side, and in particular the directors who have all renewed their confidence in us this year. Two new directors have joined the ranks of the governance team, divided between the 2 colleges:

Many thanks to our members who turned out in force for the 2024 edition of Supply Chain Day, during which our Annual General Meeting was held, and to Lionel Benezech, Supply Chain Director at Orange, and his colleagues for their warm welcome. This day was an opportunity to re-mobilize the vital forces of our association around a common ambition: a frugal and desirable Supply Chain!