Taking the reigns on a temporary basis – AUTOMOTIVE
CUSTOMER
An automotive service company with expanding activities, part of an international mother company that is market leader in its segment.
CHALLENGES
- Procurement capacity was too low at the given time, timelines were too short to bring in a permanent hiring
- Bridge building and leverage creation with the international mother company
- Lack of structure within the procurement department
RESULTS
- Took the lead over direct materials (35 à 40 Mio€) and indirect materials/services (5 Mio€)
- Set up Category Management for all product groups and definition of the right purchase strategy
- Implementation of contract Management and optimization of price negotiations for large volume contracts
- Creation of awareness around supplier performance management
- Increasing maturity due to correct management and coaching of a team of 3 purchasers/category managers
- Sharing of best-in-class practices
- Performance boosting of the procurement department
- Found interesting synergies with the international mother company, which led to a better relation as well as fine results in terms of savings.
