Florian Warring

Florian Warring drives large-scale transformation and performance improvement programs across several industries, with a strong focus on automotive and industrial products. Florian has many years of experience in consulting as well as various strategic and operational procurement roles.

Florian is an expert in procurement and supply chain management helping clients to realize significant cost reductions and working capital improvements, especially with regards to their external spend.

Florian also specializes in developing and executing tailor-made negotiation strategies to support clients during high-impact price negotiations with their suppliers or customers.

Relevant Experience:

• Supported the transformation of the global supply chain organization for a leading industrial manufacturer resulting in annualized savings of more than €70 million by executing multiyear north stars and sourcing strategies for all external spend categories (e.g., metal parts, electronic components and injection-molded parts) and by adapting the existing operating model
• Supported a leading tier-one supplier in the automotive sector to prepare and conduct price negotiations with selected original equipment manufacturers (“OEMs”) resulting in price increases between 6% to 8% on average and significant reductions of payment terms
• Supported the procurement transformation for a leading private equity owned health care provider resulting in cost savings of more than 10% across several direct and indirect spend categories (e.g., energy, food and fleet) and a headcount reduction of 40%
• Supported the introduction of a global category management approach for a leading utilities company, implemented savings measures of more than €2 million in selected spend categories (e.g., temporary labor)