The Strategic Purchasing Roadmap - A7 Step guide to cost optimization and value creation for bottom-line results

Eric Salviac graduated with degrees in economics and finance from the University Paris IX-Dauphine and the University Paris X-Nanterre. He has an MBA from HEC-Northwestern University and is certified as a Lean Six Sigma black belt by the Ecole Centrale Paris. He is Executive Director in consulting firm Ernst & Young Advisory. As a widely recognized expert on Purchasing, he runs an EY think-tank that brings together CPOs from multinational corporations.
As such, he works with international groups to steer projects to optimize costs and organize purchasing departments. He also addresses finance-related purchasing performance issues. Co-author of Fonction Achats : Contrôle Interne et Gestion des Risques (The Purchasing Function : Internal Control and Risk Management) and Performance et Création de Valeur de la Fonction Achats (Purchasing Function Performance and Value Creation), Mr.
Salviac applies Lean Six Sigma methods to the purchasing function and the supply chain. He is also Vice-President of the ACA-HEC association, which brings together more than 160 purchasing and supply chain professionals. Charles-Henri Vollet is a graduate of the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce Bordeaux and holds a graduate degree from the Institut du Management des Achats Internationaux (MAI) at the Bordeaux Management School (BEM).
He is currently Group VP in charge of Purchasing and Information Systems for the Mersen group (formerly Carbone Lorraine) and a member of its Executive Committee. Before joining Mersen in 2003, Mr. Vollet was, in chronological order, Purchasing manager for Fichet-Bauche, Head of Planning, Budget and Management Control for Orange Business Services, Director of Purchasing in Europe, the Middle East and Africa for WPP Group and finally Director of Indirect Purchasing for Danone Group.
A former Vice-President of the MAI alumni association, he spent 10 years teaching Purchasing and Finance at industrial and service companies both in France and abroad as part of MAI's continuing education programs. Frédéric Bernard received a doctorate in information science and communications from the University of Aix-Marseille III, and is an alumnus of IHEST (2012 class). He also has degrees from ESCP (Executive Officer degree program), HEC (Advanced Certificate in Purchasing) and the Ecole Centrale de Marseille (Specialized Master's in Quality and Strategy).
He lectured for a number of years at ESG, NEGOSUP and the Centrale Marseille, where he taught reverse marketing, strategy and internal control. For three years, he served as Chair and professor of Information Sciences and Communications at the Centre d'Etude et de Recherche Economique de Marseille. He is currently the CEO of Mutuelle UMC where, among other responsibilities, he oversees the internal control system and the implementation of Solvency II.
Mr. Bernard has held numerous management positions in the mutual and insurance sectors, where he has developed methods for managing risk and purchasing performance. Mr. Bernard has also served as Treasurer for the ACA-HEC association, which brings together more than 160 purchasing and supply chain professionals. He is co-author of five works and a white paper on the mutual sector, internal control and risk management.
He is also the co-author of two works on Purchasing topics.