Sacem - Purchasing diagnostic

Client : Sacem
Mission: Purchasing diagnostic
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 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