Assessing Global Synergies Opportunities on Indirect Procurement for a Leading Cosmetics Retailer

Overview

Our client, a leading company in the Retail industry associated with cosmetics, wants to assess the opportunities linked to global synergies of its indirect procurements. KEPLER supports it in a complete analysis of its “Indirect Procurement” organization to take advantage of international synergies.

Context

Procurement divided between 3 regions (Europe, North America, Asia)
Total expenditure of $1.3 billion
2500+ stores worldwide
Indirect procurement managed at the national / regional levels, often directly by the various departments of the company (Marketing, IT, Supply Chain, etc.)
Poor or lack of coordination and communication between regions

Objective(s)

Category: Co-operating the Company’s Strategy

Assessing the “Indirect procurement” opportunity and organization required to make better use of global synergies
Maximizing and expanding sourcing

The success of a Procurement diagnosis and its deployment are mainly based on a detailed and pragmatic mapping of expenditure and the involvement of internal customers from the start of this diagnosis. This is all the more true in the case of indirect expenditure (IT, Transport, Marketing, Overheads, etc.) which are by nature linked to different Services of the Company.
Joe Awad, Director

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Joe Awad

Director

Joe graduated from ESSEC Business School and the Beirut School of Engineers. He began his career in consulting in 2003 at Accenture and joined KEPLER in 2008 as a Manager in the Paris…

Joe Awad

Joe Awad

Director

Joe graduated from ESSEC Business School and the Beirut School of Engineers. He began his career in consulting in 2003 at Accenture and joined KEPLER in 2008 as a Manager in the Paris office. Since 2011, he is the leader of Shanghai office activities where he covers the firm’s projects in Asia Pacific region, mainly for manufacturing and distribution companies.