Purchasing Process Maturity Assessment

 

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Contexte

For a leading global provider of Electronic Manufacturing Services (EMS), with 75% of purchasing among >1B$ revenues and 15,000 employees :

• Complex industrial setting covering high-tech industries (Automotive, Medical, Aerospace…) : 19 factories across 8 countries over 4 continents
• Solid growth mainly through acquisitions
• Internally different maturity, cultures, systems, tools within procurement
• Low volume – high mix, customer specific projects lead to high component diversity
• 50% tenders are lost due to lack of material competitiveness (hit rate <7%).

 

Mission

Conduct a 360° assessment of the strategic sourcing processes and identify concrete measures to :

• Bridge historical material cost gap
• Secure material erosion p.a. in line with EBIT target
• Deep-dive into 14 Strategic Sourcing sub-processes (50 interviews / 6 key locations world wide).

 

Bilan

Tangible :

• Top 4 critical measures aligned with the Chief of Operations  (over 50+ identified), namely:
  •  Organization model
  •  Competence management
  •  Cost optimization tools
  •  Spend data warehouse
• Actionable improvement program including site-level communication package
• Practical recommendations to secure high performance of BoM tendering process

Intangible :

• Fully detailed organization blue print + RACI.