Eu Starbucks SupplyChain May2018
Eu Starbucks SupplyChain May2018
Eu Starbucks SupplyChain May2018
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Project Partners
SOURCING THE
RIGHT BLEND IN
PROCUREMENT
Written by James Henderson
Produced by Richard Durrant
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iven its obvious presence “I would say expanding
on the high streets of
our relationships with
Europe, Middle East and
Africa (EMEA), it is difficult to believe our key suppliers is very
that the first Starbucks in the important, getting a
region opened just 20 years ago in better and better view
London. The brand has exploded
in popularity in the intermittent
on who are the right
years, and there are now thousands suppliers to work with
of outlets across the territory. and developing the
The scale of the Starbucks’ footprint
supply model with them”
brings inevitable challenges in terms
of its supply chain, sourcing and EELCO VAN DER ZANDE
procurement operations, especially Director Strategic Sourcing for EMEA,
when you consider the wide spread Starbucks
of its stores across the geography,
and that around 85% its sites are leading to an inconsistent
not company-run, instead being execution. Enter Eelco
run as a licensed operation. van der Zande, the
Up until three years ago, the company’s director of
sourcing and procurement approach strategic sourcing for
of sourcing partners was to a certain EMEA who today leads
extent fragmented, from time to time the team for direct and
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ethical charter and we can trace the source of all our ingredients.
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“There is a lot of focus on creating end-
to-end visibility in our supply chain and
that will allow us to better understand
demand and supply patterns”
EELCO VAN DER ZANDE, Director Strategic Sourcing for EMEA, Starbucks
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“At the moment we
have about 9mn mobile
paying customers,
and in the US at the
moment already one
out of three customers
are actually using
mobile order and pay”
EELCO VAN DER ZANDE, Director
Strategic Sourcing for EMEA, Starbucks
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Eating is something we do every day.
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order and pay. That’s quite impressive
and our challenge now is to actually COMPANY
expand that platform globally. Each
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customer coming into Starbucks,
whether it’s a company-owned store
or a licenced store, should be able to
order online, or through its mobile app.
Through that platform we can actually
engage much closer with the customer
and actually further grow our business.
Then, back to the adoption of
technology in the supply chain:
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“There is still significant work to do patterns. We’re working on supply and
on the supply chain and sourcing demand maps, and by doing so that
side, but we are making progress gives us a lot of information in order
and digitisation is absolutely key to to further optimise supply chains,
our supply chain strategy. In the two specifically our source to pay function.”
years since Starbucks brought in Clearly, great strides have been made
new, strong supply chain leaders in by Van der Zande and his sourcing
both global and regional teams, there team supporting Starbucks’ presence
has been a lot of focus on creating across Europe, Middle East and Africa;
end-to-end visibility in our supply that 100% of its supplier base comes
chain and that will allow us to better from ethical sources is something
understand demand and supply he is, rightly, very proud of. But there
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is clearly still an ambition to iterate right suppliers to work with and
and continue to refine the function. developing the supply model with
“We certainly want to continue them. By doing that I think we get
to grow with our licensees and to a better supplier development
strengthening our sourcing and recognition programme, which
collaboration with them is will set us up for further success
something I am very passionate and future growth: Our licensees,
about investing in,” he says. our suppliers and Starbucks.”
“I would say expanding our
relationships with our key suppliers
is very important, getting a better
and better view on who are the
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