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business , to have this productivity mindset and together deliver double the value that we were delivering before .”
He adds : “ A key part of the Accelerate Programme was to make sure we didn ’ t only look at the price of what we buy , but that we started looking at the demand . What are we buying ? How are we buying it ? Do we really need all specifications ?
“ Do we have some substitutes ? Can we actually review the scope ? Can we analyse the cost drivers behind what we are buying and then make an informed decision on whether we really need them ? Yes or no ?”
If any of this even hints at sacrificing quality , it should not .
For , as Gerardo says : “ In most of the cases we can do all that without sacrificing the quality that is required for what we need to buy .”
Target achieved – and then some By the end of the three-year programme , Accelerate had done exactly what it said on the tin – and much more .
Gerardo says : “ At the end , by closely partnering with our business colleagues , we managed to over deliver the aggressive target by almost 50 %. The programme in
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