Interim Purchasing Managers
This article explores some of the background behind the use of interim purchasing managers.
Advantages of Using Interim Purchasing Managers
Interim purchasing managers can be an excellent solution when dealing with high profile / value / risk projects and an already stretched team.
Within days of an enquiry, interim purchasing managers can be in a client's business bringing a lot of objectivity - without the political baggage. The approach is very non-threatening to sensitive middle and senior managers, because interim purchasing managers aren't looking for permanent roles.
Interim purchasing managers from Executive Interims will be more than happy to take ownership for implementing their proposals, often unlike consultants from the bigger consultancy firms. Our people pride themselves on delivering the solution AND handing you the cheque. Its not just about recommendations to us. It's about the results.
Profiles of Interim Purchasing Managers
Executive Interims - interim purchasing managers have expertise in areas such as:
- Total Acquisition Purchasing Cost Modeling
- Strategic Make vs. Buy / Outsourcing / TUPE
- In Depth Supply Industry Research
- Strategic Purchasing / Category Management
- e-Sourcing (e-RFI + e-RFQ + e-auctions)
- Category Supply Chain Management
- Supplier Relationship Management
- Generic Supply Base Wide Cost Reduction Programmes
- Bespoke Supplier Specific Cost Reduction Programmes
- Negotiation
- Supplier Communication - including Supplier Conferences
- EC Procurement Directives
- Regional Purchasing in Eastern Europe , Asia etc.
- Capital Purchasing Projects
- Leasing
- Value Engineering
- Supplier Quality Assurance
Improving The Purchase to Pay Process:
- e-Procurement
- Procurement Cards
- Expenses Cards
- Business Process Re-engineering
- Minimising Non-conformance / Maverick Procurement
- Supplier Rationalisation
ERP Module Implementations including:
- Configuration
- Project Management
- Programme Management
Interim Purchasing Managers - A Case Study: Pan-European Packaging
Client: Global FMCG Business
Team: Small client led multi-disciplinary core team and numerous decentralised purchasing stakeholders at plant level Client's requirement for interim purchasing managers expertise included:
- Management of a packaging category
- Strategic purchasing methodology & e-Sourcing
- Formal project management systems (e.g. PRINCE 2)
- Multi-cultural & multi-lingual capability
- FMCG industry experience an advantage
Interim purchasing managers provided by Executive Interims - Supply Chain Practice:
- Packaging category purchasing specialist
- Packaging design specialist
Actions Undertaken
- Diagnostic & pan-European spend validation
- Supply chain re-engineering of key sub-category
- Value analysis / value engineering (VA/VE)
- Consolidation & renegotiation
- e-Sourcing (including reverse auctions) of key sub-categories
Key Challenges:
- Supplier oligopoly for key sub-category
- Developing constructive working relationships with decentralised purchasing stakeholders at pan-European plants
- Pack variety
Benefits Delivered by the Interim Purchasing Manager
- Savings of $ 4m per annum (mostly double digit % savings)
- Demonstrated clear benefits of centralising packaging purchasing without disenfranchising decentralised stakeholders at plant level
- Built platform to give purchasing a greater role in packaging development
Why Interim Purchasing Managers from Executive Interims?
If you're looking for interim purchasing managers or consultants, that's what we specialise in. Executive Interims - Supply Chain Practice has the best selection in the UK , particularly if you're looking for an:
Specialising offers a number of advantages over interim management agencies who cover everything from Finance, Sales, HR and Engineering/R&D and for whom Supply Chain usually represents no more than 10% of their business.
If you need interim purchasing managers we:
- Tend to understand the technicalities better than interim management agencies, especially when the all of the requirements aren't explicit.
- Have the best selection of interim purchasing managers in the UK - typically at least twice as many as interim management agencies.
- Profile the expertise of all interim purchasing managers exhaustively by expertise, role and industry experience. See how, with our supply chain expertise profiling demo. Just click on "Skills and Experience" and have a go.
- Won't offer you someone who we think is good, but hasn't quite done what you want before.
- Can typically offer clients interim purchasing managers , who have done EXACTLY THAT before.
This means more benefits, delivered faster for our clients.
Interested in Interim Purchasing Managers ?
Executive Interims - Supply Chain Practice is a specialist provider of purchasing consultancy and interim management services. If you'd like to know more about what interim management purchasing specialists from Executive Interims could do for your business, contact us to explore the subject further.
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