Experts are now unanimous in recognising the one hand the influence of our production on the degradation of our environment, and on the other hand the finiteness of natural raw materials. These two challenges require invention of new industrial organisations to produce in a sustainable way.
More and more actors have to work together to meet the customers' needs. We see that with the new industrial world and especially in the globalisation of markets, globalisation of production sites and research and development, the increasingly important suppliers in the value of a product or service and the refocusing companies on their core activity.