PMP and the city of Paris want to facilitate urban logistics

In November 2009, within the SUGAR project (Sustainable Urban Goods logistics Achieved by Regional and local policies), the City of Paris asked PMP to facilitate two round table discussions on solutions to implement facilitation of urban logistics. Financed by the European programme INTERREG IV C (financing of territorial cooperation),this project aims to put in place analysis tools and to transfer best practice of urban logistics in Europe.

Different examples were presented that notably show the necessity for local authorities to develop an integrated approach to planning (urban, regional, national) and for transporters and their customers, the importance on acting in concert with local authorities.

PMP often asked to provide its expertise to the public sector.  Below is a quick presentation of the major themes of our offer for local authorities.

Local authorities are at the center of the French state's reform of decentralisation. Their competence areas have been greatly expanded: economic development, social, highways, education and culture. They have become a major actor in economic life and will develop denser relations with the private sector.

They are confronted with an intensification of constraints on their financial and human resources, and via the redefinition of their mission (moving from a user to customer mentality, valuing public/private partnerships, searching for proprietary resources).

In this situation, they must make mananagement of  results a daily task to gurantee their financial equilibrium. Their management needs are important on two levels :
  • strategic management which implies the definition, communication and sharing of clear objectives
  • operational management which declines strategy into improvement programmes or transformation of offers/functions.
Beyong management and cost control, local authorities must show the pertinence of their programmes and the level of their effecincy to justify spending by end result.

Finally, the service functions, quality of service, and productivity of means will continue to be a major preoccupation for local authorities. They must:
  • optimise administrative operations,
  • redeploy means,
  • profit from new information and communication technologies and associate them agents that are empowered to put forward a spirit of initiaitve.

With its department Performance du Management Public, PMP accompanies local authorities with this mutation.
Strategy and management contro of organisational operations are one of our areas of excellence.


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