Consulting firm in purchasing

Turn your purchasing into a driver of competitiveness and resilience

In the current context, marked by economic and geopolitical constraints as well as increasing environmental requirements, the purchasing function has a key role to play.
The joint and interconnected evolution of purchasing and eco-design practices not only makes it possible to meet economic imperatives but also to honour environmental commitments in a rapidly changing world.

Your challenges

Responsible purchasing, cost control, CSR compliance: what are your priority challenges?

In today’s context, which favours more local and responsible design and sourcing, the purchasing function is transforming into a true creator of value. It raises major challenges in several essential areas and works to optimise purchasing and improve the company’s environmental performance.

Integrating a responsible and sustainable purchasing approach

Selecting responsible suppliers with a CSR policy
Adjusting supply chains to incorporate sustainable practices (packaging, green logistics, etc.)
Reducing emissions from scopes 1, 2 & 3

Anticipating regulatory requirements and CSRD compliance

Monitoring and anticipatinglegislative and regulatory changes – CSRD
Adapting processes to new requirements

Controlling your costs while factoring in the carbon footprint in your decisions

Integrating the carbon footprint into total cost of ownership decisions
Exploring opportunities linked to the circular economy

Making eco-design a lever for innovation and differentiation

Incorporating environmental criteria from the product design phase to foster eco-design
Working with suppliers to develop high-performance, eco-responsible products, in particular by using recycled materials

Digitalising your purchasing to better steer and anticipate

Pragmatically integrating digital tools and AI to optimize purchasing
Using data analysis to improve decisions in the purchasing process

Our convictions

5 guidelines to turn purchasing into a lever for value creation

Breaking down silos to align purchasing strategies with the company’s long-term strategy
Integrate CSR and eco-design elements to think in terms of full cost, over the life cycle of products and services
Play an active role in reducing the carbon footprint via the purchasing function

Mastering new tools to maximize the value of data
Using data to make rapid, robust and shared decisions

Analyze and categorise purchases according to their strategic importance in order to prioritize risk management
Implement management strategies tailored to each risk category
Optimize the flow of information to minimise risks and facilitate accurate and rapid decision-making

Involve the purchasing function in eco-design from the design phase onwards
Working closely with suppliers to integrate their social and ecological constraints
Move from a ‘cost reduction’ vision to a ‘value creation and carbon reduction’ vision by promoting sustainable innovation

Turn strategic suppliers into long-term R&D partners
Promote collaboration and transparency to ensure beneficial interdependence with suppliers

Our expertise

Our solutions to optimise your purchasing, sourcing, and eco-design

Our teams combine strong functional expertise with advanced capabilities in digitalising the Purchasing function.
Our objective is to transform the image of Purchasing from “Cost hunters” to “Value creators and carbon hunters”.

Purchasing Strategy & Sourcing Master Plan

Formalising a purchasing strategy and its operational roll-out
Defining a sourcing Master Plan
Cost optimisation through a total cost of ownership approach
Steering the purchasing carbon footprint
Defining the most relevant sourcing regions

Eco-design of products & Innovation

Eco-design – Calculating and reducing environmental costs
Taking account of design-related risks
Defining and implementing a modular product policy

Deployment of a Lean culture and progress projects

Implementation of supplier risk prioritization and management processes using issues and occurrence matrices
Digitalization of supplier risk management and use of internal and external data
Definition of supplier risk security plans

Inclusion of purchasing risks in Supply & Business routines

Diagnosis of the existing situation as part of a cross-functional approach
VSM (Value Stream Mapping) across the entire value chain to ensure consistency from capacity to suppliers
Aligning procurement processes with S&OP routines

Improvement of conditioning & packaging

Definition and research into packaging for closed-loop flows integrating tracking tools (RFID) & full-cost balances
RFI / RFQ for reusable packaging
Definition and research into end-customer packaging

Cost optimization & supplier performance

Cost reduction through the implementation of ‘Design to cost’ and modular design approaches
Monitoring and improving supplier performance

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Direct economic gains on your costs and productivity

Reduced transport and material costs
Optimization of stocks and reduction in wastage
Increased productivity
Reduced operational costs

A measurable environmental impact and CSR commitments fulfilled

Reduction in CO2 emissions
Lower energy consumption
Use of recycled and renewable materials
Optimized use of natural resources

Strengthening trust and innovation with your strategic suppliers

Increased collaboration between customers and suppliers
Integrate suppliers into your own innovation strategy
Transformation of the role of buyers
Definition of an ethical and responsible purchasing policy

A question? A project?

Contact our consultants in purchasing and eco-design

Do you want to reduce your purchasing costs while improving your carbon footprint?

Are you looking to secure your supplier base in the face of geopolitical and regulatory risks?

How can the purchasing function contribute to value creation?

Vincent Leroy

Head of Purchasing and Eco-design Consultancy

After more than 15 years in the automotive industry, in operational positions in purchasing, supply chain and R&D, Vincent is now working as a consultant on projects to improve the performance of the entire operational value chain, including suppliers.

Specializing in supply chain performance, industrial organization and lean manufacturing, he uses his experience in purchasing and on large-scale projects to improve the processes of purchasing and design functions.

Pragmatic and adaptable, he works with both large groups and SMEs, with central functions or on production sites.