Client : Sacem
Mission: Purchasing Diagnosis and Segmentation
Duration: 3 months
Speakers: 2 senior consultants
Summary of issues
As part of an assignment to diagnose purchasing performance, we assisted the client with the following issues:
- Improve management of operating costs
- Mastering docking regulations
- Encouraging synergies between departments
- Structuring data to manage purchasing families and categories
- Documenting to promote the function
Solutions and actions
- Step 1: target definition and mapping to assess expenditure and costs effectively.
- Step 2:
- Data analysis to identify opportunities for optimisation and rationalisation.
- Contractual review to understand possible constraints and levers
- Step 3:
- Complete restructuring of purchasing segmentation by category and family in correlation with the chart of accounts
- Action plan for each purchasing area, prioritised according to financial, strategic, feasibility, CSR and savings potential.
- Identifying purchasing levers: make or buy, TCO, over-the-counter, supplier relationship management, etc.
- Drafting a purchasing guide adapted to the context of the organisation and in line with the knowledge management approach
