Establishment of the organization of the purchasing central management
As part of a reorganization within company’s purchasing department, an AgileBuyer transition manager created the Industrial Purchasing Department.
The manager’s mission was to:
- Set up the organization, processes and tools of this new central management
- Organize local purchases in 9 countries
In order to meet the client’s expectations, the AgileBuyer advisor has had to put in place several elements such as:
- The purchasing strategy in line with the Group’s policy
- Category management on industrial purchases
- Organization, processes and tools
Once these elements were developed, the consultant was able to use his skills on other elements such as:
- Increasing the massification of purchases at the group level, local delegation in certain cases
- Establishing an operational direction for 100 buyers and suppliers
- Dealing with supplier risks (mono-sources)
- Generating expected earnings in the medium-term plan of the group
- Processes formalized by 6 group purchasing directives
- Organization finalized the same year
- Training program to be delivered to buyers the next year
- Purchasing information system in addition to SAP (spend analysis of the year, SRM for the coming year), supplier and solutions selected during the year
- Its ability to handle urgent situations with strategic dimensions
- Its involvement in the success of his clients’ projects
- The experience and adaptability of its transition managers