How can you support your procurement and supply chains to address your performance challenges?
In an economic environment marked by market volatility, cost pressures, and growing expectations regarding social responsibility, external performance is becoming a strategic pillar. For more than 20 years (since the founding of By.O Group), our team has been working with you to rethink and strengthen your relationships with your ecosystem (suppliers, partners, upstream sectors) in order to turn them into drivers of growth, innovation, and resilience.
Today, the concept of “ecosystems” has taken on even greater significance. Executives at major corporations and in the public sector are realizing that it is crucial for an organization to understand and manage its business environment. Our various approaches enable us to support organizations from the development of a strategic plan through to its operational implementation on the ground, working alongside their teams. Our approach combines industry expertise, proven methodologies, and a systemic perspective to create value at every link in your chain.
40 to 80%
Purchases account for of the company’s revenue (Grant Thornton 2023)
The Key Drivers of External Performance
Purchasing Performance
Procurement is no longer limited to simply negotiating or reducing costs—it is a true pillar of value creation for the company. Today , procurement plays a strategic role in driving innovation, securing operations, and ensuring economic performance.
An effective procurement policy helps streamline spending, optimize supplier relationships, and incorporate sustainability criteria into the selection process. It relies on data-driven management, diversification of sources, and close collaboration with business units to align procurement with strategic objectives.
Supplier Management and Development
Your suppliers are not just service providers—they are key partners whose performance directly impacts your own. They play a key role in the resilience and innovation of the value chain. Their performance directly impacts quality, lead times, and production costs. Yet many companies struggle to build lasting, mutually beneficial relationships with their ecosystem.
A structured supplier management approach helps build lasting relationships based on trust, transparency, and continuous improvement. This involves regularly evaluating their performance, jointly developing improvement plans, and harmonizing quality standards. Such an approach promotes agility, reduces risks, and fosters the emergence of innovative solutions within the ecosystem.
Sustainability of supply chains
Sustainability has become an economic, societal, and regulatory imperative for ensuring the long-term viability of your business. Companies must now integrate ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) issues into their value chain, or risk losing their competitive edge or legitimacy.
At Cubik, we help you build responsible supply chains, from upstream to downstream. This involves analyzing the carbon footprint of your supply chain, establishing sustainable procurement criteria, and supporting your suppliers in their environmental and social transition. Our approach enables you to balance economic performance with a positive impact, while meeting the expectations of your stakeholders (customers, investors, and regulators).
Securing Your Supply Chains
Recent crises (health, geopolitical, and logistical) have served as a reminder of just how vital supply chain security is for businesses. The challenge is to anticipate and mitigate risks related to your supply chain, whether they stem from the availability of raw materials, reliance on a single supplier, or logistical uncertainties.
At Cubik, we help you secure your supply chains by mapping your risks, diversifying your supply sources, or developing business continuity plans (BCPs). The goal? To enable you to keep your business running under any circumstances, while optimizing your costs and flexibility.
Supporting your procurement organizations in addressing their key challenges
We work with the procurement department and all business units (operations, IT, CSR, finance, sales, etc.) at every stage of the design and implementation of your projects to enable your organization to achieve its performance goals (financial and capacity-related) through its partnerships:
- PURCHASING TRANSFORMATION: Making Procurement a Strategic Driver of Competitiveness
Align the procurement mission and organization with the company’s ambitions to accelerate its growth, enhance value creation, and sustainably support performance. - CATEGORY MANAGEMENT: Driving Value Through Strategic Categories
Structuring and developing high-impact categories to optimize costs, secure supply, and strengthen competitive advantages. - SUPPLIER DEVELOPMENT: Building High-Performance and Resilient Supplier Ecosystems
Selecting and developing value-creating supplier relationships to secure supply chains, drive innovation, and support the company’s evolution. - PURCHASING PERFORMANCE: Measuring, ensuring, and maximizing overall performance
Enhancing the purchasing function’s contribution to the economic, operational, and non-financial performance of the company and its business units to strengthen the function’s recognition and visibility. - TRAINING: Developing the talent that will drive tomorrow’s performance
Sustainably strengthen the skills of procurement teams through high-impact training programs and content tailored to current and future challenges.
Testimonial:
“A consulting firm focused on creating value”
Cubik Procurement (formerly By.O Group) offers a combination of hard and soft skills. The teams develop category- or organization-wide strategies, taking into account the operational aspects and execution of these strategies. This ensures true efficiency in project delivery. Cubik Procurement’s approach is highly pragmatic rather than dogmatic, with a strong focus on listening to the client. This is what sets their approach apart and enables them to provide solutions that address the client’s business challenges, identity, and level of maturity.
Sarah Kerlan
Chief Procurement Officer, Pernod-Ricard
Our approach is firmly focused on impact
At Cubik, we firmly believe that external performance is a strategic pillar for strengthening your organization’s competitiveness and impact across the entire value chain.
As France’s leading provider of operational transformation, we help you optimize your supplier relationships, procurement performance, and upstream supply chains to create a more efficient, collaborative, and responsible value chain. Our comprehensive approach goes beyond immediate gains: it aims to drive sustainable transformations, optimize costs while fostering innovation, and integrate social and environmental considerations into your partnerships.
We believe that external performance is based on a systemic approach, in which every stakeholder in your ecosystem (suppliers, partners, industry chains) becomes a driver of your growth and innovation capacity. We help you build an agile, resilient procurement strategy and supplier relationships that are aligned with your organization’s strategic objectives.
