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Profit from Procurement

Profit from Procurement: Add 30% to Your Bottom
Line by Breaking Down Silos delivers an insightful,
compelling and fresh take on a subject that

typically comprises 50 percent of a business’s
total costs: Procurement.

lex Klein, Simon Whatson and Jose Oliveira,
leaders at the world’s largest dedicated
A procurement consultancy, highlight the
limitations of the traditional, functionally siloed
approach to procurement, and demonstrate how
significant EBITDA gains can be made by lifting
procurement out of the back office and enabling it to
fundamentally reset a company’s cost base in Profit
from Procurement: Add 30% to Your Bottom Line by
Breaking Down Silos.

Its accessible, frank and refreshing style,
combined with practical, actionable advice, based
on the authors’ extensive real-life experience, make
it a must read for any executive looking to make an
impact through procurement.

The book offers readers a practical and concrete
roadmap to optimising, integrating and deploying a
company’s procurement capabilities, creating a less
siloed, more impactful function. Readers will learn world’s leading procurement consultancy. He works
how to: with large blue-chip corporations and mid-sized,
• Plan their company’s procurement transformation. PE-owned companies to help them execute global
• Reskill teams for the coming change. procurement transformation programmes.
• Reposition the procurement function to become
the driver of cross-functional change. Simon Whatson is a Vice President at Efficio’s
• Integrate new topics such as digitalisation and London headquarters. He supports companies across
sustainability into their procurement roadmaps. sectors to augment procurement’s value proposition
• Ensure that procurement efficiencies are fully through multi-year programmes, has led industry
reflected in bottom-line profits. thought leadership reports on technology and talent
in the industry, and speaks at global conferences on
Perfect for C-suite executives and procurement the topics.
professionals at companies of all sizes, Profit
from Procurement belongs on the bookshelves of Jose Oliveira is a Vice President at Efficio’s
every employee and leader tasked with company New York office. He supports companies and their
operations and profit strategy. investors by embedding procurement as a core L O GI S T I CS NEWS
business function, establishing cross-functional
About the authors engagement and stronger commitment to change
Alex Klein is COO and Co-founder of Efficio, the management. •

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