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Thomson (Easysource) : Development of an E-Procurement System

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What business is the organization in?

Thomson is a French company, created in 1883, whose headquarters are in Issy les Moulineaux, near Paris. It is specialized in the conception and the manufacturing of digital images and videos systems. The company developed itself in the world to be present in different countries, such as Italy, India, China, Spain, USA, Belgium and UK.

It has about 73 000 employees dispatched over 230 sites, including more than 60 factories. Its sites are distributed around 10 countries but the company sells its goods and services to 100 countries. We can also notice that Thomson is a real leader in the innovation system, as it owns 35 000 patents worldwide representing around 6 000 inventions.

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Indeed, non- production purchases are divided as follow: o Non-production purchases outside EasySource: Licenses, Guarantees, Customer Marketing, Other. o Non-production purchases inside EasySource: o Transport, o Energy, o Software, o IT and Telecoms, o Property and tenant services, o External services, o Marketing, communication and advertising, o Manufacturing supply, o Investment, o Travel o Other

So, those non-production purchases are items that are difficult to manage for companies as they are really diversified and need to be well analyzed. As a consequence they are very costly as they need competent people to deal with them and quite a lot of people due to their diversification. That is why Thomson has recourse to e-procurement with EasySource for such purchases

What savings were realized?

The following shows that the solution at its completion should bring 150 million of euros: EasySource allows Thomson to save around 80 million per year. First, we can look at the following table showing us a few results from before and after the use of EasySource by Thomson:


Before EasySource After EasySource
Active suppliers per buyer 100 50
Percentage of active suppliers approved by the State 10,0% 100,0%
Percentage of purchases generated with small suppliers 40,0% 10,0%
Percentage of transactions via e-commerce 3,0% 60,0%
Percentage of purchases under agreements 50,0% 95,0%
Number of suppliers for

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