E-Procurement: Case Study Thomson & Saint-Gobain
| XXXX Business School |
|E-procurement |
|Case study : Thomson – Saint Gobain |
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|B.R. & A.A. |
|17/05/2010 |
|This report point out the approaches of Thomson and Saint Gobain regarding the e-procurement. |
Establish an « Astonishment report » listing the most surprising aspects of the procurement management for each of the two groups before the implementation of the eprocurement solution.
Thomson
Globally, the problematic of non-production purchases at Thomson Group seems to be very neglected despite of its importance. Indeed, even if Thomson Group is one of the most important electronical devices manufacturers, its purchasing policy was archaic and anarchic before implementing Hubwoo.
The fact is that for its nonstrategic purchases, there were about 50000 suppliers, against 10 for the vertical purchases. This number is very excessive and should have never been reached. And this is even more worrying that these suppliers represent about 2 billion euros in 2002. Something very interesting is also that these figures are not exact because the IT system and the multiplicity of the suppliers do not allow to measure the exact amount of the expenditures.
This situation is the result of the
|E-procurement |
|Case study : Thomson – Saint Gobain |
| |
|B.R. & A.A. |
|17/05/2010 |
|This report point out the approaches of Thomson and Saint Gobain regarding the e-procurement. |
Establish an « Astonishment report » listing the most surprising aspects of the procurement management for each of the two groups before the implementation of the eprocurement solution.
Thomson
Globally, the problematic of non-production purchases at Thomson Group seems to be very neglected despite of its importance. Indeed, even if Thomson Group is one of the most important electronical devices manufacturers, its purchasing policy was archaic and anarchic before implementing Hubwoo.
The fact is that for its nonstrategic purchases, there were about 50000 suppliers, against 10 for the vertical purchases. This number is very excessive and should have never been reached. And this is even more worrying that these suppliers represent about 2 billion euros in 2002. Something very interesting is also that these figures are not exact because the IT system and the multiplicity of the suppliers do not allow to measure the exact amount of the expenditures.
This situation is the result of the