Is logistics an unthought-of policy issue in France?
Laurent LIVOLSI
Lecturer, director of the CRET-LOG, head of the chair Supply Chain Management, Aix-Marseille University
Aurélien ROUQUET
Professor of Logistics and Supply Chain Management, NEOMA Business School – Secretary General of the International Association for Research in Logistics and Supply Chain Management (AIRL-SCM)
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The Covid-19 crisis, with its lack of masks, tests and vaccines, was a brutal reminder of the importance of logistics. This problem seems to be due to an incomplete understanding of logistics by the French government, which perceives it as a simple execution function – according to the famous adage “l'intendance suivra” (“the logistics will catch up”) – instead of a key element that should be integrated into the development of strategies at a very early stage. France also suffers from insufficient coordination of public and private logistics players, as well as of central decision-making bodies and local levels. Yet logistics is a decisive lever for the economic dynamisation of territories, the competitiveness of companies, and also for the response to environmental issues.
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Sophie JACOLIN
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