Life at SGS Maine Pointe

Lynne joined Maine Pointe and quickly picked up the Procurement workstream. Her in-depth industry knowledge in restaurant and food service sourcing was exactly what was needed to help bring a very difficult engagement over the finish line and help Maine Pointe obtain an incentive bonus payment for the engagement.

Lynne was able to identify savings in areas that had been thought to be unlikely sources of savings through her knowledge of the supply chain for proteins and consumables. She was also instrumental in driving savings out of purchased restaurant equipment, which was key factor in lowering new restaurant construction costs for our client.

In addition to the $2.4 million in savings that the team achieved, Lynne identified an additional $3.3 million in savings that the client chose to defer to a later time. Finally, Lynne positioned the client for success in outlining a negotiations approach for its foodservice distributor.

More recently, Lynne joined an analysis for another client mid-stream and contributed greatly to closing the engagement. She is again leading the procurement workstream, but this time in the Chemicals space.

Although she was unfamiliar with most of these commodities, her procurement expertise and her client and supplier management skills, coupled with SMEs supporting her efforts on specific chemicals helped to grow the engagement from an estimated $2M in fees to $3.95M — primarily due to procurement (which was originally out of scope) being included.

We look forward to Lynne’s continued success on behalf of Maine Pointe and our clients.

Lisa came to a client engagement straight from the Specialty Chemical industry, so she became highly credible in the eyes of our client immediately and provided our team with an uplift in skillset.  

She very quickly began adding value to the team, bringing her industry experience to bear to help other team members – most notably in some very complex categories.

Alone, Lisa has exceeded all expectations to date – driving over $4M in benefits across several categories, while supporting other team members.

In one category alone Lisa hit 200% of the high target.  Lisa has been recognized internally by the client as a compassionate, considerate mentor and great collaborator as she executes against our mandate of making this sustainable for the client.  

Additionally, Lisa has worked tirelessly with other team members to “automate” one of our bid analysis tools process which, together with our analyst team, we will be deploying to the client.

Lisa is doing all this while commuting from California to Cincinnati. She is just an all-around great teammate!

Congrats Lisa, we look forward to your continued success at Maine Pointe!

Dominique Kren joined our team halfway through a client engagement and made a tremendous impact.

With multiple masters degrees, Dominique adapted extremely fast. She worked day and night to learn on the job and accepted all feedback.

Not only is she is an amazing coordinator, but she does much more, including participating as a trainer in key client 6-Step procurement process trainings.

She is a very fast learner, able to interact with all our client levels, anticipate the needs of the ED and the client, proactively engage, and has a problem-solving mindset. She brings colors to the team and is an extremely reliable member. She is instrumental to our engagement.  

Dominique was also brought in to support an aerospace & defense engagement and quickly gained credibility with the client organization through DILO studies and process mapping of three major products.  

Establishing herself as an important member of the A&D team, Dominique has been able to have an impact in engagement and analysis work in her first year with SGS Maine Pointe.