In recent years, purchasing departments have established themselves as a key pillar of business performance. Faced with a complex and ever-changing business environment, their role is constantly evolving. Today, in order to maintain its performance, the function must continue to professionalise and establish its legitimacy.
This evolution in the maturity of the purchasing function requires us to question the alignment of the structure, resources, skills, processes and associated management system to ensure effective interaction and coordination with other business units.
The evolution of the purchasing function is based on a global and integrated vision, where each lever – structure, resources, skills, processes and management tools – contributes to maximising performance and aligning actions with the company’s strategic objectives. The key lies in the ability to effectively coordinate purchasing with the business lines to maximise synergies.
To address these challenges, ABGi offers its expertise and proven methodologies to co-develop pragmatic solutions tailored to the specific needs of each organisation. Our services focus on three main areas:
Purchasing: a source of value to be exploited.
The effective implementation of the purchasing vision and ambition is closely linked to the choice of the right organisational model, ensuring that resources are adequate and everyone’s roles and responsibilities are clear, that processes are agile and interconnected, and that the right tools are used to drive performance.
The relevance of the system and its alignment with the business strategy must meet a single objective: to support the ambition set in terms of value creation and risk management. Purchasing must also be able to demonstrate its performance and show the ROI of its actions by using appropriate indicators.
Diagnosis
Identify the strengths and weaknesses of the current model.
Vision and Ambition
Co-construire la définition des ambitions Achat.
Accelerate innovation
Turn your ideas into real projects by integrating the most appropriate technologies.
Monitoring results
Ensure that each project has an impact on your performance through rigorous monitoring.
The success and performance of an organisation is closely linked to its human capital. With this in mind, we offer our clients a range of services aimed at managing and developing this capital. ABGi develops tools and training methods to support your professionalisation efforts and liaise with Human Resources Management, with a constant focus on alignment with the company’s competency framework. We implement a comprehensive system aimed at increasing the purchasing skills of your teams by strengthening their involvement.
Define the skills framework
Assess skills
Develop skills
Give meaning and pride
Beyond structuring and transformation initiatives, the development of the purchasing function is also based on targeted actions aimed at developing purchasing maturity: risk management, spend management, purchasing policy, CSR, SRM, purchasing performance, etc. These are all targeted areas that can be addressed by our teams on an ad hoc basis.
Risk Management
Spend Management
Purchasing policy
CSR
SRM
Purchasing Performance
The programme is structured around four key drivers: massification, organisational change, supplier performance and digitalisation.
Gradual restructuring of the purchasing function at head office and then in the regions to standardise working methods and practices.
Assess the maturity of practices and identify performance drivers.
Working with senior management, define and implement new purchasing processes to meet the challenges of the group’s rapid growth and development (France, Benelux, Canada).