Eric de Chabot
Responsable des achats indirects, région EMEA, Kohler Co
I studied at the European Business School of Paris (specialisation International Business).
In 1997, I started my professional career at MPO (6th international CD & DVD manufacturer). During 3.5 years at the Head Office in Mayenne, I set up customer service department of 4 people. I was in charge of the production planning, the warehouse and all the deliveries.
Then I moved to Spain, to become responsible of a fulfilment centre based in Barcelona. I was leading a team of 25 persons, doing pick and pack and distributing products all over Spain, Portugal and Italy. After improving the profitability of this centre, I was tasked to shut down the business for strategic reason.
Then I moved to London, to become logistic and purchasing manager in a bigger subsidiary of the MPO group. I was in charge of a team of 5 people. I negotiated payment terms, implemented SLA (Service Level Agreement). I outsourced the storage capacity...
After 3 years I moved to Sonopress part of Bertelsmann Group, 2nd biggest CD and DVD manufacturer worldwide. As Purchasing controller, I was in charge of a spend of 35M€ for the UK. I was also responsible of the supply of plastic boxes to the European factories (France, Germany, Spain, Ireland; spend 120M€). In that matricial organisation, I was also in charge of a spend of 3M€ worldwide for plastic films.
At the end of 2008, I decided to leave the Media industry to move to something else.
I got back to France, based in Toulouse and started to work as a consultant for the plane industry at Airbus.
Please find below my added values:
Purchasing (direct and indirect costs) and Procurement
Developed and implemented specification
Set up framework contract, Service Level Agreement, Non Disclosure Agreement.
Payment terms, automatic invoice system
Outsourcing warehousing
Production scheduling, warehouse management
Set up a supply Chain for packaging (made of board, paper, plastic, metal…)
Developed and implemented a European Business Review with KPI (quality, on time delivery, service, technology, price)
Preparation of a purchasing strategy at European level
Supplier auditing and qualifying
150 contacts2006 - 2007Responsible for 200 suppliers UK:35M€, Europe:120M€, worldwide:3M€ per annum,
Team manager of 4 people
Developed and implemented European Purchasing Strategy for Plastic Box and Print
Implemented European Service Level Agreements, increased payment terms to 90d,
Set up automated pricing and month end automatic invoicing on SAP (saving 50K€),
Consolidated Special Packaging Supply Chain (spend: 2M€ per annum),
Prepared 2007-08-09 strategy, achieving 4% 1,4M€ savings (across all commodities, storage, transport, security…)
Implemented and managed European Vendor Review, improving KPI’s by 30%,
Managed and implemented Terms and Conditions for the UK,
Managed a commodity for the group around the globe (spend: 3M€ per annum).
2002 - 200511/2003-06/2005 Logistics and Purchasing Manager
Managed 150 suppliers and 1500 references, with 6M€ spend per annum.
Implemented Service Level Agreements with 50 most important suppliers in 4 months.
Achieved savings of 15% (against target of 10%). This represents 900K€ in direct & indirect cost savings per annum (renegotiation of existing contracts and sourcing alternative suppliers).
Supervised implementation of JD Edwards (ERP System) to entire back office (in addition to existing responsibilities as Logistics and Purchasing Manager).
04/2002-10/2003 Logistics Manager
Reduced overall outsourced stock level by 60% (1,000 to 400 pallets), while production increased by 40%. This was achieved by implementing rigorous stock taking procedures. This achieved savings of 150,000€ per annum.
Increased stock capacity on the production site by reorganising the warehouse layout from a total capacity of 130 to 600 pallets.
Set up a team of 5 for logistics management. This included hiring 4 new employees
2000 - 2002- Managed business unit through strong expansion and subsequent contraction, until complete transfer of operations to Madrid. Overall responsibility for 25 people and £1M turnover.
- Initially, achieved increase of 35% in production productivity by eliminating weekend and night shifts. This resulted in savings of £40,000 per annum.
- Modernised production equipment, this increased production by 15% (200,000 CDR per annum).
Due to group restructuring, was tasked with shutting down MPO Barcelona, resulting in 25 redundancies and complete transfer of all operations and equipment to Madrid.
During that time, MPO only lost 7 clients out of 30.
1997 - 2000Responsible for entire supply chain management (30 employees, 5 shifts, 24/7 production, 1,000 references). During that time, production increased by 10 times for Minidisks (to 11M units per annum) and 30 times for CDR (to 36M units per annum).
Led production improvement effort, which resulted in productivity increase of 300% (through better production planning and supplier management). This resulted in savings of 500k€ per annum.
Helped plan design and transfer production and supply chain to new factory. This was achieved in a 10 month period, and transfer was made without any impact on production and implementation of ISO 9001 procedures.
Initially, was asked to create customer servicing team, hired 4 people to manage 500 clients.