Based in Washington DC, Aasheesh leads our work in digital procurement in North America and is also the global leader for procurement in transactions and M&A activity. Working across sectors and industries, Aasheesh helps companies find value in procurement through strategic sourcing and by transforming their operating models.
Recent examples of Aasheesh’s work include the following:
- leading digital-procurement transformations with more than 20 clients across the aerospace, automotive, basic materials, consumer, distribution, food, industrial, high tech, and pharmaceutical sectors
- leading McKinsey and client teams to transform strategic sourcing for direct and indirect categories, including commodities
- designing procurement organizations and operating models for multiple clients to elevate the role and decision rights for procurement, and building capabilities for cost and economic analysis, negotiations, and more
- building capabilities in multiple client organizations for cost and economic analysis, negotiations, and more
- developing McKinsey’s “playbook” to capture procurement synergies in mergers, and leading clean teams with synergies ranging from $100 million to $1.2 billion with scope including premerger synergy assessment, postmerger value capture, business continuity, and organizational and operating-model design
- developing McKinsey’s “playbook” to capture procurement synergies in mergers, including building the supplier collaboration program for a $12 billion company
- implementing comprehensive programs including lean, supplier collaboration, demand transparency, specification optimization, and transportation collaboration with suppliers for multiple sourcing categories
- conducting a company-wide transformation review for an automotive supplier to identify opportunities in manufacturing, supply chain, and procurement, in order to identify cost reduction opportunities in multiple procurement waves