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Invensys Case Study: Global Supply Chain implementation

Invensys plc was formed in 2001 by a merger of BTR and Siebe, and then grew with a diverse range of acquisitions to a market cap of about $7bn in 2002. It encompasses the Production Management Division (Foxboro, IPS, Wonderware, etc.) and the Development Division (Hansen, Rail, Appliance Controls, etc.).

The strategy from 2002 was to refocus the group on its core businesses in production technology, dispose of non-core business units, and to re-engineer the group to leverage the enormous value from consolidating business processes.

INVEST was the Group wide re-engineering programme.

The business challenge

The creation of a new Corporate Global Supply Chain team had led to the identification of spend savings totalling over £100million. The issue was that controllable budgets and buying resources were vested in the individual business units.

Our approach

entier built and implemented a web based solution that broke down the savings and allocated them (globally) by business unit and even specific site, while still linking back to the original contracts. With this transparency we then established a governance structure that tracked the delivery of these savings on a monthly basis, and responded to areas where the savings were not being delivered. We also trained and coordinated the "buyers" so that they had the skills to deliver the savings (a total of 200+ heads).

This programme was delivered on time and under budget, led by John Stenhouse of entier.