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Procurement, Sourcing, Vendor Management, Transformation and Globalization--> Path to Sustained High Value and Performance

  • About Us

    KM Strategy Consultants provides expert advisory services and interim CPO leadership in procurement, sourcing, outsourcing, expense management, vendor management, and business transformation and globalization.

    Knut Meyer, Managing Director
    Accomplished consultant and trusted advisor; assisted numerous organizations in strategic sourcing, expense management, outsourcing, transformation and globalization initiatives; and designing and implementing IT-enabled procurement infrastructure for sustained value and performance.
    Knut spent over a decade at A.T.Kearney, developed sourcing strategies, led world-wide sourcing and transformation programs for multi-industry clients. He was strategy & operations leader in Deloitte's financial services strategy & operations practice, built Procurement BPO outsourcing advisory businesses at Everest Group, Smart Business Associates, and The Hackett Group; led strategic sourcing service delivery at Global eProcure; and built and led store development sourcing within Global Procurement at Ann Inc. (Ann Taylor). Knut, intermittently, built KM Strategy Consultants to a boutique consulting business. Clients included Deutsche Bank, Webster Bank, New York Mets, Pitney Bowes, X-strata-Glencoe, Western Dental, and currently CDA, the California Dental Association.
    Knut is a true global leader, with 30 years of multi-industry experience in Europe, the Americas, Middle East, and Asia; fluent in English, German (native), Spanish, Portuguese, and French; with an MBA in finance/int'l business, management, and organization from Northwestern University (Kellogg) and an Economist degree from Universidad Catolica Andres Bello (UCAB), Caracas, Venezuela

  • Sourcing, Expense Management, Procurement Transformation

    Spend data ("cube") management
    - Category sourcing (indirect, direct, services)
    - Sourcing strategies, approaches
    - Source-to-Pay, Procure-to-Pay
    - Procurement infrastructure
    - Supplier relationship management, contract management
    - Interim procurement leadership
    - Program management

  • Enterprise Transformation and Globalization

    Business process outsourcing (BPO), Shared Services:
    Functional value analysis
    - Options, scenarios, risk assessments
    - Solutions design
    - Vendor identification, negotiation, selection
    - Transaction and vendor transition support
    - Post BPO "health checks" and renegotiation, structuring
    - Governance and retained organization development

  • Industry Experience

    - Airlines
    - Apparel/Fashion
    - Automotive
    - Banking and Insurance
    - Business Services
    - Consumer Products
    - Health Care Services/Pharma
    - Mining
    - Professional Services
    - Real Estate
    - Retail Dental Services

  • Representative Experience - Sourcing, Expense Management, Procurement Transformation

    - National health services group: Provided interim procurement leadership, guided teams in sourcing/outsourcing, expense management, negotiations, new contract formulation; for equipment, fixtures, services, facilities, new office expansion (leasing, construction)
    - Leading U.S. apparel retailer: Built and led global procurement organization for store construction and operations, led multiple sourcing, expense reduction, and transformation programs secured Asian supplier sources
    - Global investment bank: Led internal teams in regional and global procurement organization design and transformation, implemented sourced categories, new vendor and contract management and performance reporting processes/tools
    - Global bank/insurance group: Led client and consultant teams in global IT sourcing and transformation initiative, to generate multiple $100 MM annual savings, selection and roll-out of e-procurement system, design of organization structure, training and selection of staff

  • Representative Experience - Enterprise Transformation and Globalization

    - Global mining company: Co-led program to shift N.A. regional shared services organization (Procurement, HR, Finance & Accounting, IT) to global offshore shared services entity, developed transition program to capture high double-digit % savings over 5 years
    - European investment bank: Designed and implemented IT outsourced vendor performance program, including monthly SLA and KPI service quality assurance reporting
    - Asian airline: Worked with teams in renegotiating global IT outsourced services contracts, refined retained organization, governance structure, and vendor quality assurance program
    - Leading U.S. insurer: Led analysis and advised in first industry end-to-end procurement outsourcing (PO) transaction, including vendor selection, negotiation and contracting assistance, governance, vendor oversight during
    initial transition
    - Global consumer products company: Led teams in global category sourcing service delivery, transformed regional shared services organizations in the Americas and Europe,

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  • Phone: 1-(203)219 4560
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  • Email: knut@km-strategy.com
  • Web: www.km-strategy.com