Demand Management

Demand Management (DM) is about challenging our purchasing spend by asking the right questions: How many, how, why? (here is a self-explanatory video).

Case for Change

• Anywhere we spend money, there is a need for Demand Management
• Demand Management is only making sure that each of us is spending Solvay's money as it was his/her own money

Diagnostic

• We want to avoid mobilizing operational people for hours around a whiteboard
• We have methodologies and tools that rather mobilize your data and enable us to identify the opportunities from there

Monitoring

• Demand Management is not a quick fix, it is about modifying the buying behaviors of each and everyone, at all levels of the group
• For that purpose, dashboards are built to monitor the progressive behavioral changes and reach bottom line results

Examples

• Here are a few examples of focus of Demand Management