Sustainability and Supply Chains Analytics

As recent crises have shown, transport and logistics play a major role in the functioning of the global economy.   Faced with the still lingering effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and the challenges of ecological and digital transitions, the sector must constantly reinvent itself to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow.

With this in mind, CMA CGM, a world leader in sea, land and air transport solutions, backed up by its TANGRAM training and innovation center for sustainable logistics, has decided to create a new university research chair at Europe's leading business school, the "Sustainability & Supply Chain Analytics" Chair, with the support of the HEC Foundation.

Headed by Sam Aflaki, Professor at HEC Paris specializing in decision-making, operations management and energy policy, this research chair is dedicated to the study of global supply chains.  

The CMA CGM x HEC Paris "Sustainability & Supply Chain Analytics" Chair focuses its research on the societal and digital challenges of global transport. It thus focuses its ambition on two main themes: 

• The transformation of supply chains, to guarantee greater environmental and social sustainability.

• Digital transformation, including the use of new technologies such as blockchain, big data and analytics, to improve supply chains according to various criteria, including sustainability, transparency and profitability. 

To this end, the Sustainability & Supply Chain Analytics Chair is equipping itself with high-level scientific expertise to anticipate future trends in international trade.  

It invites leading international researchers who are relevant to the issues under study, and organizes major academic events.  

The Chair also mobilizes the expertise of students as well as doctoral and post-doctoral students around major challenges such as decarbonization, digitalization and technological innovation, adapting to changing consumption patterns and society's expectations, adjusting logistics in the event of crises and geopolitical tensions, and finally the transformation of the world of work and its impact.

"In a world where the transport and logistics sectors play a major role in the economy, this Chair will enable both the CMA CGM Group and TANGRAM to gain an in-depth understanding of supply chains in order to improve their impact on the environment and adapt to the challenges of tomorrow." Hadi Zablit, Executive Vice President, Chief Information & Technology Officer of CMA CGM's TANGRAM center

"We are delighted with this partnership, which marks a new stage in the strengthening of the already close relationship between CMA CGM and HEC Paris. Thanks to this Chair, supply chains will be able to equip themselves with new tools to initiate their transformation towards greater environmental and social sustainability." Eloïc Peyrache, Dean and Managing Director of HEC Paris

"The already strong ties between HEC Paris and CMA CGM are strengthened even further by this new partnership in the field of sustainable development and supply chain management. We are delighted to be in a position, through sponsorship, to help HEC Paris researchers create new knowledge that will feed into the School's high-level academic programs, and can be widely shared to influence practices." Olivier Sevillia, Chairman of the HEC Foundation

Lastly, this chair will reinforce the strategic partnership between the CMA CGM Group and HEC Paris, initiated in December 2021 with the "CMA CGM Excellence Fund for Lebanon", HEC Paris' largest international social and excellence scholarship program, enabling the training of 200 Lebanese students on the Jouy-en-Josas Campus.   

^{About CMA CGM}

^{Headed by Rodolphe Saadé, the CMA CGM Group, a global player in maritime, land, air and logistics solutions, serves more than 420 ports worldwide on 5 continents, with a fleet of 593 vessels. In 2022, the Group transported 21.7 million TEU (Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units) containers. With its subsidiary CEVA Logistics, a global logistics player that has transported 522,000 tonnes of air freight and over 22 million overland freight shipments, and its air freight division CMA CGM AIR CARGO, the CMA CGM Group is constantly innovating to offer its customers a complete and ever more efficient range of new sea, land, air and logistics solutions.}  

^{Committed to the energy transition in shipping and a pioneer in the use of alternative fuels, the CMA CGM Group has set itself a Net Zero Carbon target by 2050.} 

^{Through the CMA CGM Foundation, the Group helps thousands of children every year as part of its actions to promote education for all and equal opportunities. The CMA CGM Foundation also takes action in the event of humanitarian crises requiring an emergency response, mobilizing the Group's maritime and logistics expertise to transport humanitarian supplies around the world.}  

^{Present in 160 countries via its network of over 400 offices and 750 warehouses, the Group employs 155,000 people worldwide, including nearly 4,000 in Marseilles where its headquarters are located.}

^{About TANGRAM}

^{TANGRAM is the new training and innovation center dedicated to creating the sustainable transport and logistics of tomorrow.}

^{An initiative of the CMA CGM Group, this new center of excellence will make a decisive contribution to the transport and logistics sectors in meeting the major challenges facing the world today (environmental, societal, geopolitical, etc.).}

^{The aim is to bring together all those who wish to collaborate to co-create the new rules of tomorrow's game: CMA CGM Group employees, start-ups, major groups, universities, research centers.}  

^{Since January 2024, Tangram has had an exceptional location at the Pointe Rouge in Marseille.}

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