Optimisation of purchasing and procurement

Experience shows that spending on production materials, merchandise, payments in kind, services and investments make up two thirds of a company’s overall costs. Metro plan distinguishes between the procurement requirements and purchasing requirements.

The challenge of purchasing is fulfilling the following tasks in tandem and in full:

• Compensating for the fall in price of particular products through correspondingly high savings and rationalisations. It can make sense to move valuable and administrative tasks to Eastern Europe.
• Create maximum transparency on current and international procurement markets
• Integrate divisions responsible for purchasing and procurement in all selection processes early on
• Continuous supplier optimisation
• Guaranteeing uniform and efficient processes in purchasing and procurement at all sites
• Fulfilling all legal and customs requirements
• Complying with all compliance requirements (e.g. dual-control principle)

Metroplan-Approach and methodology

Metroplan supports its customers in optimising purchasing and procurement as a whole, or with regard to individual elements. The following three-stage optimisation procedure has been proven to work:

1. Purchasing audit and analysis phase

• Purchasing audit using approx. 100 company-specific questions in the field of purchasing and procurement at the production sites
• Access to ERP master and transaction data using (SAP-certified) interfaces to derive purchase volumes for the product group structure etc.
• Analysis of purchase controlling using professional software