FRANCE • USA • CHINA • INDIA

Our business,increasing your effi ciency

Procurement • Category management

and strategies• International sourcing &

market studies• Supplier relationship

management and supplier development plan

• Negotiation toolkits • Cost modeling &

savings strategies

Supply Chain• Logistics master planning and

optimization• Planning and scheduling• Dimensioning and warehouse

management• Inventory management• Improved service rate• “End-to-end” Supply Chain

management

Operations • Lean transformation • Maintenance optimization• OPEX / CAPEX optimization• Industrial cost price management• Cross functional process redesign

Innovation• Operational business plan development• New product development process

optimization• Supplier innovation • Lean Engineering• Design to cost and Value Engineering

Four operationallevers

Organization and management systems

Change management

STRATEGIC PLAN

Efficiency

Regain agilityYour challenges:

• Make the corporate strategy operational

• Adapt the organization and the businesses to the challenges and goals

• Reduce Time-to-Market

Our solutions:

• State the strategic objectives in a business plan and develop your roadmap

• Optimize roles and responsibilities and establish performance leadership

• Simplify and standardize your key processes utilizing a Lean approach

Development

Secure growthYour challenges:

• Identify and execute external acquisitions

• Accelerate innovation

• Develop successful international markets

Our solutions:

• Perform operational due diligence of the target company and support the execution of your integration plan

• Construct a robust innovation process with your partners (ecosystem)

• Develop your international expansion strategy; build and develop your supplier base

Reliability

Mobilize peopleYour challenges:

• Manage change within your teams

• Develop skills

• Strengthen cooperation between the businesses

Our solutions:

• Conduct the impact study and prepare the change plan

• Communicate the project plans; secure support and empower the teams

• Set up training and coaching programs

• Capture and transfer knowledge

Four major challenges

Savings

Increase competitiveness Your challenges:

• Improve the profi t/loss statement

• Optimize working capital requirements

• Make capital investments profi table

Our solutions:

• Construct and deploy a targeted performance plan customized to your operations, procurement, supply chain and manufacturing sites

• Design your new products to cost

• Implement a continuous improvement culture to master the business process

Our methods Field expertise

Our approach is pragmatic, supported by industry leading benchmarks and aims to establish breakthrough actions, supported by rigorous methodologies and personalized support.

1. Propose cutting edge best practices and most advanced methodologies

2. Target the right level of added value in order to optimize the effectiveness of our collaboration

3. Perpetuate performance by assuring skills and methodologies transfer

4. Produce consistent, ambitious and long-term sustaining results

Our way A customized approach

Each project is unique and custom-designed.

We adjust the project scope to your needs.

• Training

• Diagnostic

• Tiger Team

• Transformation

Our expertise Expertise in your business

Consultants with operational experience

All KEPLER consultants have signifi cant experience in operational functions.

• Innovation

• Procurement

• Supply Chain

• Operations

Expertise in your environment

The ability to function in complex and demanding environments

We work together with large corporations (Fortune 500, CAC 40), and with SME and intermediate-sized companies who wish to accelerate their growth.

Our employees demonstrate fl exibility by adapting to all corporate cultures.

Expertise in your fi eld of activity

Cross-disciplinary and multisectoral experience:

• Industry: capital goods, automotive, aerospace, consumer goods, energy, medical devices, life sciences…

• Distribution and Retail: B-to-B and B-to-C

• Private Equity

Our offering

KEPLER Think Tank Every year, a group comprised of Chief Procurement Offi cers from large international organizations meets at a Think Tank hosted by KEPLER. They study prospective issues such as “supplier innovation and the value creation in purchasing”. The objective of this Think Tank is to advance practices through the exchange of ideas and concrete experiences. Collectively, the Think Tank members identify, assess and measure the relevance of the implemented solutions. They favor shared experience and anticipate the deployment of new tools.

40% reduction in time-to-market in new product development

30% reduction in capital investments in

a production line through functional analysis and

Lean management

SOURCE: ANNUAL KEPLER CLIENT SATISFACTION SURVEY

Our references

Operational experience

“KEPLER is a good mix of operational

experience, strategic thinking, organization

and support for cfor change.”

Flexible

“We were very satisfi ed with the methodology

proposed and the pragmatic, fi eld-based

approach of the KEPLER consultants.”

There for us T

EPLER “The KEPalways consultants are alw

lecaring and available. They are really

attentive to our issues.”

Experts

“The KEPLER consultants offer unique

expertise regarding certain purchasing

issues, a cross-departmental view of the company and real industrial knowledge.”

How do clients see us?

Innovation

Capital Goods (6 months) Developed a framework to stimulate supplier innovation: multi-business governance, selection and management of strategic suppliers, change support plan. Implemented in two pilot projects.

Result:• Governance in place

(internal /suppliers)• Five innovations selected

from the pilot projects

Automotive (4 months) Re-designed to cost electronic equipment. Created functional analysis and production/process value analysis. Analyzed new architecture and industrialization scenarios. Provided experiential feedback of the development process.

Result:• 30% reduction of total cost

of ownership (Capex & Opex)

Procurement

Cosmetics (8 months) Created global sourcing study in Asia. Identifi ed and qualifi ed suppliers (packaging, chemical products, contract manufacturers). Structured and deployed a Lean supplier development program to ensure growth.

Result:• Secured supplier panel• ROI of 1:7

Medical devices (12 months) Evaluated and implemented sourcing synergies related to an acquisition – developed the integration roadmap, supplier negotiations and rationalization, unifi ed commodity strategies for all key categories, and rolled-out the organizational consolidation.

Result:• Additional 10% savings over

5 years

Supply Chain

Aerospace (6 months) Conducted a supply chain improvement program within a group of aerospace subcontractors. Established forecasting models and industrial planning processes (S&OP). Coached and trained the teams.

Result:• 10 point improvement in

the service rate

Grocery retail (6 months) Optimized the downstream supply chain. Optimized warehouse material fl ows. Re-arranged the warehouses to achieve greater productivity and establish next-day delivery.

Result:• 15% reduction in logistics

costs

Operations

Energy (18 months) Optimized the internal maintenance organization practices at 12 European sites. Defi ned the operating models, deployed at each site and conducted employee training and coaching. Measured performance through common key performance indicators.

Result:• 10% reduction in maintenance

costs• Emergency rate cut in half

Home improvement (6 months) Established Lean management principles in a warehouse. Reorganized the logistics and trade processes for improved customer service. Established performance leadership and planning. Taught Lean management practices to employees for sustained savings.

Result:• 20% improvement in SHW

(Sales per Hour Worked)

KEPLER,a consulting fi rm specializing in operational profi t margin optimization

An international fi rm • 50 employees• 60% of projects are

global • A global network

of experts

Experienced teams• Experts in your business

and in your sector • Methodical and

equipped with the best benchmarks

• Focused on results, sharing and transferring knowledge

Personalized services• Training• Diagnostic • Tiger Team• Transformation

Four operational levers • Innovation• Procurement• Supply Chain • Operations

www.kepler-consulting.com

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