L'assemblage de réseaux et de chaînes logistiques comme nouvelle forme de collaboration

The current economic environment is generally characterized by volatile markets, products with short life cycles, and geographically dispersed companies. In order to ensure a better cooperation on the management of their flows, many companies set up temporary supply chains reconfigurable as needed. These are often organized around a central actor (pivot) performing relativity stable fonctions. This article identifies through two complementary case studies, a new role of ?pivot assembler? to better take into account the various temporality of supply chains.