In peacetime, logistics made it possible

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By Yvon Doukhan, Director of the MBA in Logistics and Supply Chain Management at ESLSCA Business School Paris

to organize and transport product flows all over the world. In a globalized economy, the search for customer satisfaction has become one of the priorities of companies, whether it concerns capital goods, industrial products or consumer goods. Failure to respect the essential conditions of contracts (quality, delivery times, etc.) certainly had a sometimes considerable economic impact, but rarely put the survival of people at risk.

Supply Chain Management nurse database led economic players to optimize the value of both suppliers and their customers.

Knowledge of market needs and sales forecasts helped companies define their production capacity, demand for raw materials and various products, stock levels and the necessary means of distribution, despite the growing complexity linked to the origin of the goods purchased, stretching the flows in order to minimize the financial impact.

The current health crisis, unprecedented since the modern era, has highlighted the criticality of the global supply chain , and in particular its time dimension. Moving faster, fighting against an "invisible enemy" for most of us, has highlighted exceptional issues: dependence on often distant suppliers, confrontation with highly competitive and unforeseen demand (equipment, products, specialized labor, etc.), conventional delivery times, careful inventory management (security, quotas, allocation, etc.).