« Melusine » projects for the year 2020/2021

For the year 2020/2021, the supply chain of the future chair has proposed around ten subjects for the Melusine projects for both 2nd and 3rd year students of the industrial engineering department of the school.

For 2nd year student, four projects of supply chain modeling were monitored and realized through the chair’s partners :

• For Renault, two distinct projects : a first around the implementation of a targeted offer on certain products/distribution channels/customers which would make it possible to suggest a 21 days delivery as well as a second project around packaging and circular economy.
• For Michelin, a project aimed at measuring the quality of a logistics deployment plan.
• For Louis Vuitton, a project to create a forecasting demand tool to enable agile product launch plans. 
   

For 3rd year student, the four partners of the chair were thus able to supervise 6 projects, allowing to understand current issues in terms of supply chain :

• For Renault, a project around the optimization of the transport pieces between suppliers and factories.
• For the Casino group, two different projects : the first project to assess the carbon footprint of products sold by the group and its subsidiaries with a database and a simulation tool as deliverables: and a second project for the subsidiary CDiscount around the picking productivity impact when creating/opening a new packaging line.
• For Michelin, a project aiming to define the optimal organizational approach to perpetuate the AI engines in the company, in particular around questions of maintenance and improvement of the predictions of these learning machines taking into account variations of the external context (ex of the covid crisis).
• For Louis Vuitton, two different projects, a first modeling project to optimize in-stores sales potential through the use of the company’s omnichannel tool ; and a second project aiming at defining and modeling a logistics and supply chain scheme integrating maximum agility on logistics capacities and lead times for customer delivery; while controlling stocks. 
   

About “Melusine” projects of the school of Ponts ParisTech

The industrial engineering department of the school of Ponts ParisTech organizes each year the module-project “Melusine” which is aimed at students in their 2nd year of engineering training.

Melusine projects are tripartite projects : Companie, School of Ponts and a group of students of the school’s industrial engineering department (3 to 4 students maximum). The Melusine projects aim to offer concrete and operational solutions to a complex industrial problem proposed by an organization (large group, start-up, SME, NGO).

Students have access to teachers and researchers, experts in the fields of supply chain, production simulation, modeling, innovation and sustainable development.

Teams work under a mandate of a company to improve a process (supply chain, sourcing, warehousing, logistics, picking, strategy, production, planning, design…).

The goal of the “Melusine” project is to enable students to acquire an operational mastery of the essential industrial engineering fields “modeling and planning of production systems, supply chain, design, project management and innovation” and to familiarize themselves with contemporary industrial issues.