Adinergy is specialized in Supply Chain Management


The notion of Supply Chain Management appeared with the development of international trade in the second half of the 20th century. Initially designed to coordinate more and more complex logistics steps with the globalization of trade, the Supply Chain has taken an increasingly strategic place in Companies by going well beyond this primary function.

Who are the Actors of the Supply Chain ?

To simplify, the Supply Chain Management (SCM) originally brought together the Purchasing, Transport (often international) and storage functions by giving them information tools allowing them to optimize the coordination of their actions and thus increase their performance.
However, SCM has gone much further than this logistical function as Companies evolve and adapt themselves to an increasingly complex environment. The Supply Chain is the central and transversal tool that links the role of the buyer (sourcing) to the expression of a Customer's needs. We can even say that it gives it its meaning (or sense), that is to say its Added Value.
The Supply Chain Department of a manufacturing industry will be able to manage sales administration in order to better integrate the management of Customers requirements with the upstream functions that will allow these needs to be satisfied in terms of Time, Quality and Cost optimization.
The Supply Chain, in its role of logistics coordination, supervises production planning in order to best schedule production levels and batches at customer request.
We can thus see how an efficient Supply Chain manages the support functions (Purchasing -Transportation-Stocks) to link them directly with Customer expression of needs and thus eliminates surpluses or “wastes” (raw materials, components, stocks, empty transports, etc.) that a traditional organization used to generate.
The Supply Chain Management is the competitiveness tool of globalized companies subject to increasingly strong competitive pressures.

Adinergy has developed a course comparing the Supply Chains of a manufacturing industry and an entity (project or production) in upstream oil and gas or renewable energy (offshore).
It is interesting to analyse the similarities but also the differences between both. The complexity of an international project, gas development for example, gives a very particular importance to the actors of the Supply Chain. It integrates two strategic missions: Securing the stages of this Supply Chain and ensuring the Safety of Personnels from their point of origin up to their final destination.

A project developed off the African coasts, for example, will use global skills and involve suppliers on all continents. We quickly understand that unlike a classic manufacturing industry which is developing its “ecosystem” around it, a network of suppliers and service providers allowing it to operate “just in time”, the gas project will have to look everywhere in the world the in-depth expertise he will need. The notion of “securing” its supplies then becomes essential and includes in its costs the complexity of this chain and its inherent risks. The reliability of its Suppliers and Service Providers in an often difficult environment is essential to the success of the Project.

The second concept that distinguishes our two Supply Chains is Personnel Safety: Having high-tech equipment delivered to an offshore site is one thing, if the personnel necessary for their implementation do not arrive on time, the efficiency of our Supply Chain is reduced to nothing. It is therefore also necessary to transport women and men to the final point of settlement, which is often isolated and difficult to access, to accommodate and feed them in hygienic conditions identical to the standards of an international hotel. This is also part of the Supply Chain missions. This is why we also integrate the "HSE" dimension in Supply Chain Management: « Safety » in transport, marine operations, airborne operations, "Health" of personnel living on board ships, platforms or camps in the desert, "Environment" with the transport and recycling of wastes but also the reduction of the environmental footprint of a very extensive Supply Chain, therefore highly CO2 emitter…

A Supply Chain management just as global and at least as complex as that of a classic industry ...

In its objective to contribute to the operational excellence of its Clients, Adinergy has developed training courses in all segments of the Supply Chain. Our experience gives us a real legitimacy to participate to the development of competencies of its Actors.

https://www.adinergy.com/courses/supply-chain-management/

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