Client Story: innogy SE

Purchasing departments need purchasing strategies. But how can a joint approach be ensured when the product groups are extremely diverse and both the purchasing department and the consumers are spread across several regions? This was the challenge faced by our customer innogy SE.

Together with the energy company, we realised the "CM Hub" strategy platform. The aim of the platform was to support the company's strategic buyers - known as international category managers - in developing product group strategies and collaborating with stakeholders.

In order to optimise the platform to the needs of the company and its purchasing department, we initially tested it using three pilot product groups. We implemented the tool on the basis of the pilots. The intensive and personalised support provided by KPMG's purchasing experts enabled the international category managers to handle the platform's modern strategy methods both technically and methodically.

In this way, innogy's purchasing department was able to develop 74 product group strategies within the project period of a few months and coordinate them with the respective stakeholders. The knowledge of the International Category Managers was institutionalised centrally and is no longer restricted to individuals - so that updates can be viewed immediately by everyone involved.

innogy can now use the platform to create product group strategies much more easily - from analysing the initial situation and defining optimisation potential to deriving specific measures and activities.

Or as Dr Ulrich Piepel, Chief Procurement Officer at innogy, sums it up: "The tool has made our procurement even more excellent."

If you also want to make your procurement organisation more efficient or processes more digital, we will be happy to help you.