Enterprise development
Relationships with partner companies, focused on education and research, grant students and research professors access to major professional networks. The centre is also a facility for professionnal interaction and networking.
"Chemins de l'Expertise" workshops
A series of professional development and research seminars offered to corporations, focusing on discussion of theory and practice in purchasing and supply chain management.
These seminars provide an opportunity to:
- Explore purchasing and supply chain management with industry professionals and academic experts.
- Exchange best practices and discover new ways of tackling the challenges faced by corporations in purchasing and supply chain management.
Consult the schedule of upcoming "Chemins de l'Expertise" workshops.
Corporate contracts
PASCA proposes practical studies to partner companies.
Some past and current examples include:
- Management of price volatility in farm-product raw materials
Exploratory research study funded by Danone. - Conception and contribution to the implementation of the outsourcing of facility procurement.
Two exploratory research projects funded by Airbus - Modelling and implementation of a process of joint energy purchasing
Project funded by EADS. - Modelling of a low-cost sourcing process and implementation of a plan of purchasing risk management
Project co-funded by Aerolia & Axima. - Modelling and implementation of a process of suppliers' carbon footprint reduction
Project funded by Danone.
The Innov'Achat programme: "Innovation Purchasing Programme"
Created by the EMC2 industrial cluster and implemented by the Chamber of Commerce of Nantes-St Nazaire, the programme seeks to develop corporate competitiveness by improving corporate management of purchasing.
Download the presentation of the Innov'Achat programme (in French)
