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

Overview

Our client, a leading retail cosmetics company, wants to assess cost optimization opportunities linked to global synergies within their indirect procurement portfolio. KEPLER provided a comprehensive assessment and analysis of their indirect procurement organization to identify 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

Assessed indirect procurement opportunities and organizational structure to activate global synergies
Maximizing and expanding sourcing capabilities and activities

The success of a procurement diagnosis is mainly based on a detailed and pragmatic mapping of expenditures and the involvement of internal stakeholders 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.