Helping you reduce your costs and expenses to increase your profitability is EPSA’s know-how. Experts in operational performance, our expert consultants are there to enable you to activate the right levers with the objective of maximum profitability. Our culture is one of efficiency, as proven by our pay-for-performance methods.

In a broad number of sectors, companies must reinvent themselves to face new entrants who, starting from a blank sheet of paper, are inventing new models that are more agile, more innovative and more digital.

Their task is huge: they must rethink their methods of approach and customer relations, their business model, their management style, in short, question their fundamentals in fast, profound and sustainable ways. In this context, there may be a risk of focusing attention on these pharaonic works and paying less attention to the management of operational performance.

With constant resources, the production capacity of an organization can vary from simple to fivefold, or even more. The expertise of EPSA Operations & Procurement is based on the work of observation, organizational design and support for people. The key is potentially considerable gains.

In most organizations, productivity gains are possible. They are based on an improvement of the existing organization. This principle is verified in any type of company, whatever the sector of activity (industry, services …) and the type of department (administrative staff, production, construction sites, design offices, research services, teams. maintenance and/or delivery….), provided that it mobilizes significant human resources (from a few hundred to several thousand people).

Auditing organizations and optimizing them in order to generate productivity gains without ever overloading the teams, putting them under pressure or harming the quality of service, this is all the know-how of EPSA Operations & Procurement in terms of optimization productivity

EPSA’s business: optimizing the operational performance of companies. Due to its expertise in all areas of purchasing, and also in organizations, taxation and social charges, EPSA has the capacity to act on all levers of economic performance.

Maximizing the profitability of a company by optimizing its costs is at the heart of EPSA’s know-how. From innovative start-ups to large multinational groups, including mid-size companies, all types of organizations can be concerned.

The key is real and fast cost optimization, guaranteed by our remuneration systems, which are partially or totally indexed to the results we obtain.

Some companies have, structurally or occasionally, cash surpluses which they would of course be wrong not to build on. With a panoramic view of the market and complete objectivity, EPSA’s financial experts help you make the right decisions.

Large, medium or small companies, public or private companies, or even institutions … Some companies benefit from structural cash surpluses. This is traditionally the case with insurance companies, to name a few.

Others have collected large sums of money following an exceptional event – a transfer, for example – and want to keep it available. In either case, it means identifying the right investment solutions, adapted to their needs and with optimal profitability associated with a completely acceptable level of risk. A challenge, given the criticality of issues related to “cash” and an abundance of investment solutions available on the market.

Energy and environmental issues have become crucial for companies and society as a whole. Reducing the impact of our activities on the planet has become a priority on the corporate agenda.

Our objective is to accompany you in the search for sustainable performance, through 4 main areas:

Energy: We help you optimize your energy consumption and expenses. We help you understand current regulations and obtain energy saving certificates.

Environment: We evaluate your environmental impact and help you develop strategies to reduce it.

Climate: We assess your carbon and greenhouse gas emissions, develop low-carbon strategies and help you implement responsible purchasing and green investments.

CSR: We support you in all your corporate social responsibility actions to ensure that they are effective and aligned with your business objectives.

We help you improve the operational efficiency of your organization with an in-depth analysis of 4 axes: organization, processes, human resources and technology. We intervene on a large perimeter of departments: purchasing, finance and management control, production units, IT department or project/R&D teams.

We ensure change management through a rigorous methodology, starting with project scoping, diagnosis and recommendations, design and deployment of digital solutions and continuous improvement through results monitoring.

One of EPSA’s seven businesses is dedicated to the improvement of your procurement.

Are you encountering problems in your purchasing and supply chain? Lack of organization? New complex project? Lack of staff? Willingness to outsource? Our expert teams in purchasing processes who master many categories guarantee you an approach adapted to your needs: definition of service level agreement (SLA), implementation of reporting and KPI, supplier relationship management, choice and deployment of tools, management of RFPs, establishment of a purchasing platform…

EPSA is thus positioned as a partner for your optimization of direct and indirect costs, and securing your purchases.

EPSA is the leader in procurement outsourcing due to its strategy of differentiation and innovation. We support our customers throughout the purchasing value chain, in your local market as well as globally.

Seeking to outsource your procurement? Procurement outsourcing is the specialty of EPSA Marketplace. In short, this allows for the reduction of your total cost of acquisition, allowing your procurement teams to remain focused on your core business and thus contributing to the satisfaction of your internal customers.

Looking to optimize your purchases and supplies? Due to our Due to our 30 offices in 15 countries, we provide you with optimization solutions for your purchases and supplies. From understanding the specifications to delivery, we are the link between your teams and the suppliers. Our expertise and our field presence provide you with simple solutions for efficient purchasing.

Wishing to decrease your purchasing costs? Our purchasing pooling offer for SMEs makes it possible, whatever your purchasing volume, to obtain pricing conditions similar to those of large groups in order to deliver you savings.

Needing to train your teams and recruit buyers? Our teams offer you an operational business approach to recruitment and training.

Progress must be at the service of people. In this context, innovation must be rethought so that companies, communities, public establishments and associations can create more value in the service of their customers, citizens, employees, managed or members.

EPSA Innovation wishes to be a partner able to support its clients in transforming their models.

In terms of innovation, we have a global approach focussed on the major sector challenges of our clients while providing them with tangible results: developing their strategy with them, structuring the governance of innovation, associating the relevant financing, and contributing to the execution of projects. Our interventions are therefore structured around very concrete patterns, assessed by indicators for which we are associated with success.

We assist companies of all sizes, Start-Ups, SMEs, ETIs and Large Groups, in accelerating their development, seeking growth, covering their working capital and all activities capable of producing financial gains.

With our 4 main expertises, EPSA Finance accompanies you in financing advice and bank loans, liquidity management advice and cash placement, financial risk management and supply chain financing. We offer a complete support, able to act on all types of businesses in search of financial gains.

Taxes, contributions and various charges represent a significant burden for your structure. Cost control, the management of incentive schemes and the search for savings have become major issues as well. However, the French legislative context and your expectations have deeply changed: operational advice in cost optimization remains a necessary approach, however has become insufficient.

EPSA is the only player in the market who proposes a global offer with integrated technical, financial and legal skills. The consulting, savings and training missions proposed have the

constant objective of accelerating your overall performance. Our teams work in the areas of optimization of social costs and AT/MP rates, in HR performance and payroll software, in innovation advice and taxation, in RDI financing, aid and subsidies engineering, in energy performance, environmental and EEC taxes, in optimizing local taxation, VAT and payroll taxes.

The partners of EPSA Tax come from major players in consulting and auditing (Big 4) and specialize in the areas of corporate finance, social and tax law, as well as operational advice on cost reduction. Being multidisciplinary, the team includes among its ranks senior consultants (7 to 15 years of experience), tax experts and lecturers, as well as leading lawyers.

Launched in October 2019, EPSA Foundation’s purpose is to support and develop any public interest work or project of a social nature that collectively contributes to supporting vulnerable people in accessing or remaining in employment, with a view to fostering their personal development, autonomy and social (re)integration. In addition, the fund will support philanthropic, educational and humanitarian projects, as well as projects that contribute to the defense of the natural environment by working with our ecosystem to achieve a successful ecological transition, and more generally, any project of general interest that is in line with the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.

EPSA Foundation wishes to contribute to a world built on human values by acting with the youth for a world more respectful of the environment, and, later, by accompanying the most fragile members of society in finding or reintegrating the job market. Thus, this endowment fund allows the group to have an impact on the up-and-coming generation in order to better prepare for tomorrow. Today, EPSA Foundation is one of the pillars of the “EPSA for Good” ambition which looks to lead the group towards its social and environmental transformation, while continuing to be a source of performance and sustainable growth for our clients.