Adi Bijedic

Adi Bijedic has been part of Efficio since 2018 and manages projects for clients from various industries, mainly in the private equity context. By optimizing procurement, he ensures that companies and organizations achieve quick wins as well as long-term savings and secure them sustainably.

Main areas of work

Adi Bijedic's areas of specialisation and focus include above all the transformation of purchasing organisations with the simultaneous identification and realisation of quick wins through to strategic potential.

Professional stations

Adi Bijedic holds a degree in business administration from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and a Master of Science in Management from the Ecole supérieure de commerce in Grenoble. During his university career, Adi Bijedic co-founded Heinrich-Heine-Consulting, Düsseldorf's first student-run management consultancy. After six years at a management consultancy in Düsseldorf, his career path led him to Efficio.

Clients

In his projects, Adi Bijedic has advised global DAX companies, blue chip companies and locally operating German SMEs. These include clients from the aviation, automotive, retail, medical technology and pharmaceutical sectors.

Important projects

• Purchasing transformation - international company in the manufacturing sector: Potential analysis across all external expenditure (direct and indirect). Implementation of the identified savings potential as part of a one-year purchasing and change management programme. Design and implementation of a purchasing organization for indirect materials.
   
• Purchasing transformation - international company in the manufacturing sector: Potential analysis across all external expenditure (direct and indirect). Implementation of the identified savings potential as part of a one-year purchasing and change management programme. Design and implementation of a purchasing organisation for indirect materials
   
• Purchasing transformation - Swiss retail company (food and non-food): Design and implementation of a new central purchasing organisation for indirect materials. Conducting a potential analysis and identifying savings potential for direct and indirect materials, which led to savings in the double-digit million range through improvements in purchasing conditions and optimization of processes
   
• Purchasing transformation - global pharmaceutical and medical technology company: Establishment of a central purchasing organization and definition of globally harmonised processes. Optimization of purchasing conditions for direct and indirect expenses (APIs, packaging, marketing, IT, MRO, FM, etc.). Sustainable realization of savings potential through rapid sourcing, supplier workshops and renegotiations with existing suppliers
   
• Strategic purchasing - SME manufacturer for Swiss trading companies (food and non-food): Carrying out potential analyzes for nine Swiss production sites and locations. Identification and realization of savings potential for direct and indirect materials
   
• Strategic purchasing - publisher and provider of educational media: realisation of a potential analysis for indirect materials, followed by a subsequent strategic purchasing project
   
• Strategic purchasing - European low-cost airline: Implementation of a purchasing diagnostic for a leading European low-cost airline with identified savings potential in the three-digit million range Design and implementation of a new central purchasing organisation for indirect materials. Conducting a potential analysis and identifying savings potential for direct and indirect materials, which led to savings in the double-digit million range through improvements in purchasing conditions and optimization of processes
   
• Purchasing transformation - global pharmaceutical and medical technology company: Establishment of a central purchasing organization and definition of globally harmonized processes. Optimization of purchasing conditions for direct and indirect expenses (APIs, packaging, marketing, IT, MRO, FM, etc.). Sustainable realization of savings potential through rapid sourcing, supplier workshops and renegotiations with existing suppliers
   
• Strategic purchasing - SME manufacturer for Swiss trading companies (food and non-food): Carrying out potential analyzes for nine Swiss production sites and locations. Identification and realisation of savings potential for direct and indirect materials
   
• Strategic purchasing - publisher and provider of educational media: realisation of a potential analysis for indirect materials, followed by a subsequent strategic purchasing project
   
• Strategic purchasing - European low-cost airline: Implementation of a purchasing diagnostic for a leading European low-cost airline with identified savings potential in the three-digit million range