{"id":15054,"date":"2020-06-16T19:14:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T17:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sprint-project.com\/?p=15054"},"modified":"2023-12-14T15:22:55","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T14:22:55","slug":"comment-est-ne-le-concept-de-la-smart-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sprint-project.com\/en\/avis-dexpert\/2020\/06\/comment-est-ne-le-concept-de-la-smart-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"How was the \u201cSmart Supply\u201d concept born?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Through this cross-interview, Fabien Esnoult, President of SprintProject<\/em><\/strong> and Fran\u00e7ois Deprey, President of GS1-France<\/strong>, look back at the creation of the concept of \u201cSmart Supply\u201d and its challenges for the Supply Chain of tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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Fabien Esnoult<\/strong><\/h3>\n

For several years, SprintProject<\/em> has the pleasure of exploring the halls and aisles of the CES in Las Vegas, the essential place for technological innovations, in search of the trends and innovations which will undoubtedly be at the origin of the transformations in the Supply Chain of tomorrow.<\/p>\n

During our visit to the CES 2019, we could only see the omnipresence of Smart ecosystems. So to speak, everything, absolutely everything was \u201cSmart\u201d and it became very clear to us that all professions were going to start communicating mainly under the effect of voice platforms and AI. This is where the concept of \u201cSmart Supply\u201d was born.<\/p>\n

Quite logically, if the world around us becomes \u201cSmart\u201d, the Supply Chain itself will in turn have to connect to other Smart ecosystems to improve. However, what will define the pace of the switch from Supply Chain to Smart Supply will be explained by the ease of acceptance and the speed of integration of these new technologies into our businesses.<\/p>\n

But what about Smart Supply? Well, it was while walking through the aisles of the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) in 2019, in the middle of all its \u201cSmart\u201d ecosystems, except the Supply Chain, that Fran\u00e7ois Deprey, President of GS1-France officially materialized for the first time on the Google wall the definition of what Sprint vehiclesProject<\/em> since its creation: \u201cSmart Supply by SprintProject<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>".<\/p>\n

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Fran\u00e7ois Deprey<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The first intuition (which comes from Fabien) was to take a group of leading Supply Chain players to the CES in Las Vegas. The concept of \u201cSmart Supply\u201d is only one emanation of this. The Supply Chain does not escape a world governed by \u201cdata\u201d as data linked to flows is essential in the quest for new business models<\/em> more efficient.<\/p>\n

At the CES, the Supply Chain was both everywhere and nowhere: present as a common point between each sector exhibited but absent as a sector, itself in change: give it the prefix \u201cSmart\u201d, the same as for other areas now allows it to be given the place it deserves in the digital transformation of the economy.<\/p>\n

In a few words, what is \u201cSmart Supply\u201d?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Fabien Esnoult<\/strong><\/h3>\n

First, let\u2019s focus on the general vision of the \u201cSmart\u201d world. Let's talk Smart City, Smart Building, Smart Vehicle, Smart Energy. \u201cSmart\u201d allows the creation of interactions between different ecosystems.<\/p>\n

As such, the Supply Chain, already transversal by nature, then integrated into other so-called \u201cSmart\u201d ecosystems, will mechanically enable the connection between the city, building, vehicle and energy ecosystems.<\/p>\n

This is the end of the self-sufficient Supply Chain and the birth of business exchanges and intersectoral data. In other words, the Supply Chain of tomorrow is a Supply Chain connected to other connected ecosystems, a \u201cSmart Supply\u201d<\/p>\n

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Fran\u00e7ois Deprey<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Of the multitude of things that can be included in this concept, I would retain two: firstly the systemic dimension, a \u201cSmart Supply\u201d, it is a Supply Chain which, like the sectors it serves, leaves his inner self and enters an open and shared world.<\/p>\n

The second element, which is the means of openness, is data, and the tools offered to us today to use it. The limit that we are breaking here is that of artificial intelligence which will, much better than human brains, process the almost infinite mass of data that Supply Chains will produce. Smart Supply is a Supply Chain based on data that makes new, more efficient, more sustainable and more resilient models possible. We talk about \u201cSmart Supply\u201d but we could also have said Augmented Supply Chain\u2026\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Concretely, what are the challenges of Smart Supply?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Fabien Esnoult<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Smart Supply has several major challenges, two main ones which are:<\/p>\n

Process improvement<\/strong> through the integration of Smart technologies. In fact, the integration of Smart Supply into processes will allow better management of flows in warehouses, availability of docking, improvement of the circulation of flows in the city, management of parking spaces or even traceability of international flows (trucks, boats, planes, etc.)<\/p>\n

Understanding these new technologies and their constraints <\/strong>in our business universes such as: expensive investments and returns on investment, control and appropriate analysis of data, AI, etc.<\/p>\n

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Fran\u00e7ois Deprey<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>The major challenge of the Supply Chain will remain the same: efficiency. But it will not be a question of focusing on strict economic efficiency, it will require Supply Chains responding to new societal and environmental paradigms. We will have to learn to \u201cmeasure\u201d differently and on the basis of common benchmarks.<\/p>\n

The other challenge is the control of data in increasingly complex value chains. Just like new technologies, the Supply Chain cannot tolerate ambiguity. The use of IoT, robots, artificial intelligence, and all forms of automation will significantly reinforce the need to share data in a fluid and, I repeat, unambiguous manner. One person's robot must understand another's robot.<\/p>\n

This is one of the fundamentals of the Supply Chain's entry into a digital ecosystem world, that of moving away from proprietary logics in which the notion of data is still confined.<\/p>\n

In the circular economy for example, the very notion of Supply Chain, which implies a linear and finite approach over time, will be completely rethought. There is no question of not also circulating data in these future models.<\/p>\n

To what extent will the implementation of this \u201cSupply Chain of the future\u201d accelerate? <\/strong><\/h2>\n

Fabien Esnoult<\/strong><\/h3>\n

In light of technological developments and the systematic deployment of the Smart ecosystem in other business worlds, Smart Supply is no longer a futuristic option, but a reality. Its implementation will accelerate in the coming months and in particular:<\/p>\n