Charles-Henri TREMEAU*

• Responsible in Asia for the portfolio of steel structure, tubes made of different materials (seamless/welded steel, stainless steel, aluminum), louvers, transportation
• Sourcing, contract and price negotiation, expediting of Purchase Orders
• Quality audit of potential suppliers in Asia
• Interface between Chinese and Occidental cultures

Lead Buyer for steel structure (15 M€ per year)
• Management of the panel of suppliers (capacity, capability, improvement) and improvement of
the Lead time, Quality and Cost for the supply of 7 000 tons of steel structure, supplied in
Eastern Europe, Middle East and China
• Each structure is unique with its own design and specifications. These points are technically
clarified with the supplier
• Quality audits realized for all suppliers in order to improve continuously their scope of supply.
The audits, based on expertisis, evaluate the documentation management, the quality system,
the production system, the supply and services.
• Worldwide sourcing for new potential suppliers
• New steel structure designer is selected and developed in China
• Development of new Chinese supplier for steel structure, with new painting facility

Project Purchaser for Air Fin Cooler (10 M€ per year):
• Management of procurement with purchase order or specific contracts for various
products/services in regards with the conditions of every project
• Coordinator for the supply made in Europe, Middle East, Australia, USA, India, China
• Coordinator of fans, motors procurement made for each project
• Sourcing of Erection Company in Thailand in order to assemble the Air Fin Cooler

Purchaser responsible for the procurement of Bianchi bikes and ebikes (pedelec, electrical bikes) for Cycleurope Group

Purchasing Manager for ebikes:
• Management of the suppliers
• Development of new products for key account such as French Mail La Poste
• Development of new product for the group brands
• Improvement of the leadtime, cost and quality for the strategical parts

Purchasing Manager for Bianchi bikes, middle and high end brand of the Group:
Purchasing Manager for all purchased components (21 M€ per year) for the bike assembly at the factory in Italy:
• Management of the panel of suppliers based on innovation, brand, quality, lead time and cost
• Management of samples & production components with the suppliers
• Management of the new european standards application on all components
• Management of forecast for the components in order to improve the delivery

Outsourcing for bike assembly in China and Taiwan (7 M€ per year) based on Make or Buy study for some bikes in order to develop the business in new areas with new bike ranges:
• Sourcing of new assembly suppliers
• Quality audit for the supplier selection
• Development of suppliers depending on selected bike range
• Management of the strategical part supply

Development, in relation with R&D and marketing, of new products with the component suppliers:
innovation, design to cost, component standardization at the group level for high end bike range.

Purchaser of technical components or functions for the assembly of gas valves such as copper parts, springs, fasteners, rings, plastic components, packaging, and accessories of the valves…
• Evaluation of the panel of supplier based on several criteria, strong rationalization of this panel
with better performance in quality, cost and delivery time with, at the same time, significant
stock value reduction
• Make or Buy study, improvement of a strategic function through a different industrial supply
• Leader for redesign to cost of another strategic function in the accessory range of the valves

internship for master degree completion
• Study of eprocurement: evaluation of profitability and opportunity to develop this tool for non
production purchase
• Study and rationalization of panel of supplier for industrial furniture supply