Karl is a Managing Director in KPMG’s Procurement and Outsourcing Advisory practice with over 20 years industry experience driving full lifecycle Procurement and Supply Chain transformational initiatives. He has a strong background in process re-engineering, systems implementation, mergers & acquisitions and business operations improvement in large, complex, globally distributed organizations.
Professional and Industry Experience
Karl has defined future state vision, constructed roadmaps, conducted technology assessments, designed operating models, defined & implemented policy, process and tools across the end to end Procurement & Supply value chain globally.
Transformational Leadership
- Led transformation of labor and technology supply chains to enable $5.7B in revenue generating spend to over 4000 client accounts in the Technology Outsourcing Services Industry
- Mitigated $980M revenue and $117M margin loss through SCM process re-engineering and capabilities development to meet client service level agreements
- Led solutions integration across multiple mergers & acquisitions
- Started up a reporting & analytics platform and team to identify an estimated $1B in savings previously not addressable
- Defined vision, roadmap and architecture for Ariba, FieldGlass and SAP integrated SCM Solution
- Led tactical sourcing and order management operations for US Public Sector accounts
Source to Pay Transformation
- Implemented Ariba Sourcing, Contracts, Savings and P2P for fortune 50 company with over $9B in spend in 60+ countries
- Managed FieldGlass labor management solution for fortune 50 company in 33+ countries to manage over $400M in spend
- Directed a Source to Pay transformation for a global Industrial manufacturing company, including an operational and technology assessment, establishment of a Procurement Operations organization, implementation of Ariba Source to Pay cloud solutions in conjunction with SAP S4 and Thomson Reuters One Source cloud tax engine.
- Led transformation of labor and technology supply chains to enable $5.7B in revenue generating spend to over 4000 client accounts in the Technology Outsourcing Services Industry
- Enabled $2B of eSourcing projects enabling $1B in savings over 3 yrs
- Develop policy and processes for contracting, sourcing & procurement
- Led multiple business process re-engineering initiatives
- Led definition and integration of Procurement cost quoting with sales quoting
- Defined and implemented multiple functional (HR, Finance) integrations to Supply Chain solutions
Additional Experience
- Defined and implemented SCM / Procurement operating models globally
- New product introduction of consumer & computing electronics products
- Setup factory and defined process to manufacture electronics products