Vallourec
Vallourec’s Procurement Transformation: Enhancing Efficiency and Safety
About
Vallourec is a multinational manufacturing company headquartered in France. Vallourec specializes in hot rolled seamless steel tubes, expandable tubular technology, automotive parts, and stainless steel, which it provides to energy, construction, automotive, and mechanical industries.
Headquarters:
Meudon, France
Employees:
15,000
Challenges
- Internal procurement structure reorganization, creating distinct Sourcing and Procurement teams, reporting to Finance
- Ensuring safety and injury-free working conditions for subcontractors by optimizing the supplier selection process and criteria
- Strengthening the centralized procurement organization while empowering regional teams to specialize in distinct commodities and categories
Benefits
- Hassle-free, unified tracking of spend by category and supplier worldwide, resulting in improved control
- Improved process efficiency for Shared Services via digitization
- Streamlined, transversal approaches between entities working with identical suppliers or having similar requirements.
- Empowering the Buyer to become a business partner for optimizing spending
- Seamless integration with e-Attestations, a trusted risk management and compliance third-party software.