KEPLER is an international business management consulting firm. Founded in 2007, the firm is built around four areas of excellence – Innovation, Procurement, Supply Chain, and Operations – and has over 70 employees in four offices – Chicago, Paris, Shanghai, and Chennai. KEPLER works with a dozen identified sectors with a results-oriented approach. The firm has serious references with large companies and investment funds. More than 60% of the projects carried out have a global scope. At KEPLER, we are helping companies operate more efficiently so that they can engage in the business of changing the world!

Focused on quantifiable and qualifiable results and hands in the dirt rather than clicking to switch slides in a theoretical recommendation, straight-talking rather than “blathering consultant”; both performance accelerator and silo breaker, code destroyers and seasoned strategist which, fifteen years after its creation, has 85 co-workers, 15 million euros in turnover and a clear collective ambition: becoming the leading French firm in end-to-end transformation.

They are engineers by education, class buddies for some, and office buddies for others. Together they share a story, that of the Masai years – this consulting firm where they all met in the early 2000s – a particular vision of consulting, and, above all, they share a desire. The same desire that, by the end of 2006, will push them to leave to “do things differently” by creating a firm that will be different, driven by a mindset that resembles them: demanding in the promise, light in the form, focused on the field as much as on the strategy, serious without taking themselves seriously. There come Lionel Muller, Pierre Rougier, Florian Chauvin, and Bernard Ouriou, the four founders of KEPLER who, since September 2007, wrote the first pages of this collective adventure before others joined them, enriching the initial project with their expertise and sensitivity.

Enough to write the success story of these consultancy free spirits who, fifteen years ago, left Masai as dissidents with their mind set on an already identified business model and a solidly structured offer, with the desire to seek knowledge, to keep doubting and, above all, to have fun.

In a world that has become more competitive and uncertain, operating margin and working capital are two pillars of the company’s viability. Optimizing the operating margin means enabling a company to make short- and medium-term gains and implement organizational models ensuring competitiveness and long-term growth.

KEPLER: an experienced operational staff that provides advice. KEPLER employees have significant experience in operational functions within companies comparable to those they support in their daily missions. Because fundamental transformations require more than a simple stroke of the pencil, the experience of our employees is an essential ingredient in Change Management for successful support.

KEPLER’s four practices offer solutions across the entire value chain of our customers, from the emergence of an idea to its marketing :

• Innovation
• Purchasing / Procurement
• Supply Chain
• Operations

The ability to fit into complex environments is at the heart of KEPLER’s DNA. Whether in Europe, the USA, India, or China, we work with organizations of all sizes: global groups, mid-size companies, SMEs, or financial institutions wishing to accelerate their development. Our consultants are recognized for their ability to support the various businesses of the company and their employees: from operational teams to management committees.

Nourished by benchmarks, our consulting activity offers a heightened perspective to meet your challenges. Our role as KEPLER consultants:

• Offer you the best practices and the most advanced methodologies on the market,
• Targeting the right level of our added value to optimize the effectiveness of our collaboration,
• Sustain performance by ensuring a transfer of skills and methodologies,
• Achieve ambitious and lasting results for your organization.

Each mission is unique and tailor-made. The experience acquired within the firm allows us to adapt our interventions with flexibility and agility according to your context and your specific challenges.

• Diagnosis: Analyze and Structure
• Carry out an inventory and assess the issues, the critical success factors, and the target to build a performance plan that mobilizes the company. Our diagnostics are personalized and are based on business and sector benchmarks to guarantee their implementation.
• Transformation: Initiate and Achieve Goals
• We support the various initiatives operationally while setting up associated management systems. We ensure the overall management of the program by coordinating the PMO and the change management plan.
• Commando: Act and Fix
• We set up expert teams to respond with agility to identified issues. The KEPLER Smart Value Initiatives can supplement this system based on our best practices.
• Training: Raise Awareness and Improve
• Transferring knowledge is a constant concern of our teams. We design and deploy specific training programs in our different areas of expertise. Our training/action approach guarantees perfect appropriation of the methods by the groups.

Exploiting the wealth of your data with algorithms and software solutions can increase your performance. Digital is a pillar of KEPLER, a transversal competence to all our practices.