Launching a new purchasing organisation

Following the end of the joint agreement with Système U in 2022, the Carrefour group wanted to pool and centralise purchasing for its G6 (France, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Romania and Poland). In 2023, the group took the strategic decision to open its own purchasing organisation in Madrid: Eureca. 

In that context, the group's supply chain leadership wanted support through the framing phase and then the delivery of the project. 

Maxime Bunel, a consultant from the Bloomco community, joined the project a few months before its official launch. He worked at Eureca on two consecutive assignments.

First, preparing Eureca's launch across the different countries and the contracting with leading international suppliers:

• Benchmark of supply chain practices across the 6 European implementation countries
• Gathering the information and creating a single Eureca contract reflecting the specifics of each location
• Connecting with the supply chain sponsors in the different countries

Second, Maxime formalised and automated the supplier penalty flows. He worked in particular on: 

• Defining the needs and writing the specifications 
• Following the tool's rollout through to go-live
• Coordinating the suppliers, the development team based in India and the 6 deployed countries

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