Our business,

increasing your
efficiency

FRANCE • USA • CHINA • INDIA

Four operational
levers

Innovation
• Operational business plan development
• New product development process
optimization Procurement
• Supplier innovation • Category management
• Lean Engineering and strategies
• Design to cost and Value Engineering • International sourcing &
market studies
• Supplier relationship
management and
supplier development
Organization plan
and management • Negotiation toolkits
systems • Cost modeling &
savings strategies

STRATEGIC
PLAN

Supply Chain
Change • Logistics master planning and
management optimization
• Planning and scheduling
• Dimensioning and warehouse
management
• Inventory management
• Improved service rate
• “End-to-end” Supply Chain
management

Operations
• Lean transformation
• Maintenance optimization
• OPEX / CAPEX optimization
• Industrial cost price management
• Cross functional process redesign
Four major
challenges
Development

Secure growth
Your challenges: Our solutions:
• Identify and execute • Perform operational due diligence of the target company
external acquisitions and support the execution of your integration plan
• Accelerate innovation • Construct a robust innovation process with your partners
(ecosystem)
• Develop successful
international markets • Develop your international expansion strategy; build and
develop your supplier base

Savings

Increase competitiveness
Your challenges: Our solutions:
• Improve the profit/loss • Construct and deploy a targeted performance plan
statement customized to your operations, procurement, supply chain
and manufacturing sites
• Optimize working capital
requirements • Design your new products to cost
• Make capital investments • Implement a continuous improvement culture to master
profitable the business process

Efficiency

Regain agility
Your challenges: Our solutions:
• Make the corporate • State the strategic objectives in a business plan and develop
strategy operational your roadmap
• Adapt the organization • Optimize roles and responsibilities and establish performance
and the businesses to leadership
the challenges and goals
• Simplify and standardize your key processes utilizing a Lean
• Reduce Time-to-Market approach

Reliability

Mobilize people
Your challenges: Our solutions:
• Manage change within • Conduct the impact study and prepare the change plan
your teams
• Communicate the project plans; secure support and
• Develop skills empower the teams
• Strengthen cooperation • Set up training and coaching programs
between the businesses
• Capture and transfer knowledge
Our
offering
Our Our Our
methods way expertise
Field expertise A customized approach Expertise in your business

Our approach is pragmatic, Each project is unique and custom- Consultants with operational
supported by industry leading designed. experience
benchmarks and aims to establish
We adjust the project scope to your All KEPLER consultants have
breakthrough actions, supported
needs. significant experience in
by rigorous methodologies and
operational functions.
personalized support. • Training
• Innovation • Supply Chain
• Diagnostic
1. Propose cutting edge best • Tiger Team
• Procurement • Operations
practices and most advanced
methodologies • Transformation Expertise in your field of activity

2. Target the right level of added Cross-disciplinary and multisectoral

value in order to optimize the experience:
effectiveness of our collaboration
• Industry: capital goods, automotive,
3. Perpetuate performance by aerospace, consumer goods, energy,
assuring skills and methodologies medical devices, life sciences…
transfer • Distribution and Retail: B-to-B and
B-to-C
4. Produce consistent, ambitious
and long-term sustaining results • Private Equity

40% reduction Expertise in your environment

in time-to-market
The ability to function in complex
in new product and demanding environments
development We work together with large
corporations (Fortune 500, CAC 40),
and with SME and intermediate-sized
companies who wish to accelerate
their growth.
Our employees demonstrate flexibility
by adapting to all corporate cultures.

KEPLER Think Tank

Every year, a group comprised of Chief
Procurement Officers from large international
organizations meets at a Think Tank hosted by
KEPLER. They study prospective issues such as “supplier
innovation and the value creation in purchasing”. The objective
of this Think Tank is to advance practices through the exchange
of ideas and concrete experiences. Collectively, the Think Tank
members identify, assess and measure the relevance of the
implemented solutions. They favor shared experience and anticipate
the deployment of new tools.
 30% reduction
in capital investments in
a production line through
functional analysis and
Lean management
Our
references
Innovation
Capital Goods (6 months)
Developed a framework to
stimulate supplier innovation:
multi-business governance,
selection and management
of strategic suppliers, change
support plan. Implemented in
two pilot projects.
Result:
• Governance in place
(internal /suppliers)
• Five innovations selected
from the pilot projects
Automotive (4 months)
Re-designed to cost electronic
equipment. Created functional
analysis and production/
process value analysis.
Analyzed new architecture
and industrialization scenarios.
Provided experiential feedback
of the development process.
Result:
• 30% reduction of total cost
of ownership (Capex & Opex)
Operational experience
“KEPLER is a good
mix of operational
experience, strategic
thinking, organization
and support
for change.”
c consultants.”
SOURCE: ANNUAL KEPLER CLIENT SATISFACTION SURVEY
Procurement
Cosmetics (8 months)
Created global sourcing
study in Asia. Identified and
qualified suppliers (packaging,
chemical products, contract
manufacturers). Structured
and deployed a Lean supplier
development program to
ensure growth.
Result:
• Secured supplier panel
• ROI of 1:7
Medical devices (12 months)
Evaluated and implemented
sourcing synergies related to
an acquisition – developed
the integration roadmap,
supplier negotiations and
rationalization, unified
commodity strategies for
all key categories, and
rolled-out the organizational
consolidation.
Result:
• Additional 10% savings over
5 years
How do clients see us?
Flexible
“We were very satisfied
with the methodology
proposed and the
pragmatic, field-based
approach of the KEPLER
Supply Chain
Aerospace (6 months)
Conducted a supply chain
improvement program
within a group of aerospace
subcontractors. Established
forecasting models and
industrial planning processes
(S&OP). Coached and trained
the teams.
Result:
• 10 point improvement in
the service rate
Grocery retail (6 months)
Optimized the downstream
supply chain. Optimized
warehouse material flows.
Re-arranged the warehouses
to achieve greater
productivity and establish
next-day delivery.
Result:
• 15% reduction in logistics
costs
Experts
“The KEPLER
consultants offer unique
expertise regarding
certain purchasing
issues, a cross-
departmental view of
the company and real
industrial knowledge.”
Operations
Energy (18 months)
Optimized the internal
maintenance organization
practices at 12 European sites.
Defined the operating models,
deployed at each site and
conducted employee training
and coaching. Measured
performance through common
key performance indicators.
Result:
• 10% reduction in maintenance
costs
• Emergency rate cut in half
Home improvement (6 months)
Established Lean management
principles in a warehouse.
Reorganized the logistics and
trade processes for improved
customer service. Established
performance leadership
and planning. Taught Lean
management practices to
employees for sustained
savings.
Result:
• 20% improvement in SHW
(Sales per Hour Worked)
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EPLER
consultants are always
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They are really
attentive to our issues.”
KEPLER,
a consulting firm specializing
in operational profit margin
optimization

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firm levers services teams

• 50 employees • Innovation • Training • Experts in your business
• 60% of projects are • Procurement • Diagnostic and in your sector
global • Supply Chain • Tiger Team • Methodical and
• A global network • Operations equipped with the best
• Transformation
of experts benchmarks
• Focused on results,
sharing and transferring
knowledge

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