Procurement Performance
A CRISTAL DÉCISIONS expertise, now integrated into MASAÏ
8 to 15% savings captured within the first 3 months, category by category.
We support procurement departments on their key categories: insurance, energy, real estate, mobility, and facility management. Our approach combines category expertise, proprietary market benchmarking, and operational support, delivering 8 to 15% average savings on targeted scopes, with results visible within the first 3 months.
- Are you capturing the full savings potential across each of your procurement categories?
Business Cases & Témoignages Clients
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Business Case
Procurement performance plan for an industrial group (€500M in spend, 15 categories)
8% savings, i.e., €40M identified, €28M achieved in 18 months
“A structured procurement function recognized by top management as a performance lever”
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Business Case
Optimization of energy purchasing for a network of 200 tertiary sites (50GWh/year)
15% reduction in the annual energy bill (€2.1M in recurring savings)
“A secure purchasing strategy with 3-year visibility and structured price hedging”
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Business Case
Deployment of 500 charging stations for a mobility group (25 sites)
TCO 20% lower than the solution initially considered (saving €1.5M)
“An operational charging network in 9 months with a validated and profitable business model”
Understand your objectives and priorities
- A drift in health and provident costs: rising healthcare expenses and regulatory changes are leading to a steady increase in contributions.
- Lack of transparency in contracts and fees: between insurers, brokers, and administrators, it is difficult to have a clear view of benefits, margins, and management fees.
- Contracts rarely renegotiated: many collective contracts remain in place for several years without real competition.
- Complex governance with social partners: collective schemes require trade-offs between economic performance, social protection, and social dialogue.
Deploy our approach
- Comprehensive audit of your schemes: analysis of health and provident contracts, benefits, contributions, and technical balances.
- Putting insurers out to tender: organizing RFPs and negotiating to obtain the best terms.
- Optimization of benefits and contributions: adjusting benefits to improve the balance between employee protection and cost control.
- Support for HR directors and social dialogue: assisting HR departments in preparing negotiations with social partners.
Deliver concrete and lasting results
- Sustainable reduction in social protection costs
- Contracts that are more readable and better managed
- A balanced relationship with insurers and brokers
- Clear management of your health and provident schemes
Business Cases & Témoignages Clients
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Business Case
Optimization of Health Expenses & Provident insurance for a major Grande École (1.8 M€ in spending, 650 employees)
17% savings over 24 months.
“Very quickly, the team demonstrated strong added value through its expertise and in-depth knowledge of the market. The project was carried out on time and delivered results exceeding expectations, both operationally and financially. We will not hesitate to work again with CRISTAL DÉCISIONS.”
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Business Case
Harmonization of health/provident contracts following acquisitions for a consulting firm (€9M budget, 900 employees)
€70k reduction over 2 years and improved benefits.
“CRISTAL DÉCISIONS managed our health and provident benefits tender, making the process clear, structured, and far less time-consuming. Available, proactive, and attentive, the team turned a complex subject into a smooth and well-controlled journey.”
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Business Case
Management of health and benefits tender for a highway operator (€7M budget, 1,300 employees)
10% savings in employee benefits with stability over 2 years, improved health coverage
“In-depth market knowledge. CRISTAL DÉCISIONS enabled us to improve the terms of our contracts and achieve overall savings, notably with a guarantee of premium stability over 2 years.”
Understand your objectives and priorities
- Optimize P&C programs (property damage, liability, auto, transport) with 10 to 25% savings
- Adapt coverage to the company’s actual risk profile
- Reduce total cost of ownership by optimizing deductibles and retentions
Deploy our approach
- Audit of P&C programs and mapping of insurable risks
- Market benchmarking and competitive tendering of insurers and brokers
- Optimization of deductibles, retentions, and program structure
Deliver concrete and sustainable results
- Risk and coverage mapping with gap analysis
- Benchmark report and quantified optimization recommendations
- Action plan to optimize the P&C program with milestones
Business Cases & Témoignages Clients
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Business Case
Procurement performance plan for an industrial group (€500M spend, 15 categories)
8% savings, i.e. €40M identified, €28M achieved in 18 months
“A structured procurement function recognized as a performance lever by top management”
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Business Case
Deployment of 500 charging stations for a mobility group (25 sites)
TCO 20% lower than the initially considered solution (€1.5M savings)
“An operational charging network in 9 months with a validated and profitable business model”
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Business Case
Optimization of energy procurement for a network of 200 tertiary sites (50GWh/year)
15% reduction in the annual energy bill (€2.1M in recurring savings)
“A secure purchasing strategy with 3-year visibility and structured price hedging”
Understand your objectives and priorities
- Increasingly structuring regulatory requirements: integrating regulations such as the APER law or the Tertiary Decree imposes new requirements for renewable energy production and reducing energy consumption.
- Complex and volatile energy markets: electricity and gas markets are evolving rapidly and sometimes unpredictably. Securing supply contracts while controlling costs is becoming an increasingly strategic exercise.
- Multiple solutions to green your energy: photovoltaic self-consumption, renewable supply contracts, guarantees of origin, PPAs… The options for decarbonizing your energy are numerous, but their economic, contractual, and operational impacts differ greatly.
- Cross-functional challenges within your organization: these topics involve several departments (procurement, CSR, real estate, finance, executive management). Aligning these different stakeholders around a clear energy strategy can be difficult.
- A strategic lever for your overall performance: beyond constraints, the energy transition is also an opportunity — strengthening the resilience of your energy procurement, creating long-term value, and enhancing your environmental commitment with your employees, clients, and partners.
Deliver tangible and sustainable results
- Negotiation: each year we run more than 100 tenders for companies of all sizes and across all sectors.
- Contract optimization: we implement tens of thousands of supply and transmission optimizations each year (subscribed capacities, transmission pricing structure, overages, supply options).
- Taxation and subsidies: we identify and implement all relevant tax and aid opportunities suited to your activity (electricity and gas excise duties, carbon compensation).
- Detection and recovery of billing errors: our tools, supported by the expert eye of our consultants, identify contractual and consumption discrepancies and recover overpayments from suppliers.
- Execution of your contracts: we are your daily partner in implementing and monitoring your contracts (market analysis and tracking, positions, click pricing and block + spot pricing, price alerts, simulation tools, scenario building).
Deploy our approach
- A structured energy purchasing strategy, aligned with market practices and effective in meeting your objectives.
- A team of dedicated expert consultants by your side every day to help you understand the market and your expenses.
- Comprehensive and dynamic comparison of supplier offers on both qualitative and economic aspects, along with decision support in choosing the strategy and suppliers.
- All your cost items optimized and a 360° view of your energy procurement.
- Consideration of all aspects: supply, additional costs (CEE, capacity, carbon market), green strategy, PPA and CSRD, solar and PV solutions, flexibility clauses, consumption commitments, etc.
Business Cases & Témoignages Clients
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Business Case
Management of a tender for a client operating holiday villages — scope: 100 electricity meters (20 GWh) and 15 gas meters (5 GWh).
€165k per year in savings delivered, scope harmonized within a single contract, and support in securing stakeholder buy-in for the pricing strategy choice.
“Excellent support and high-quality service for assistance with renewing our energy contracts.”
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Business Case
Optimization of transmission and supply for a multi-activity tertiary group (300 meters C2, C4, C5).
12% reduction in the annual energy bill (€164k in recurring savings).
“Thanks to the teams’ availability and their mastery of the subject, we optimized and reduced our expenses as much as possible.”
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Business Case
Full management of several tenders across a multi-energy scope and ongoing contract monitoring for a group of nursing homes.
€4M in annual savings on electricity, gas and propane expenses; scope controlled and harmonized.
“The team’s advice has always been relevant, whether on market developments or regulatory aspects.”
Understand your objectives and priorities
- Regulatory and tax complexity: lack of knowledge of regulations and support schemes in force prevents knowing which levers would be applicable.
- Regulatory changes require constant monitoring, impossible without dedicated internal resources.
- Reporting obligations require reliable energy data that companies do not always have.
- Cost of this expense item: taxation represents 20 to 30% of the energy bill.
- Risk associated with schemes: lack of information can hinder your investments (Decarb’Flash, Pacte Industrie…) and non-compliance of DGFiP files is a real risk.
Deploy our approach
- Assessment: mapping and comprehensive diagnosis of energy consumption (electricity, gas, heat) and presentation of support schemes applicable to your activities.
- Diagnostic: analysis of activities and energy use against eligibility criteria.
- Deployment and securing: preparation of applications for exemption and reimbursement of energy taxes, interactions with third parties, ongoing regulatory monitoring and tax compliance.
Deliver concrete and sustainable results
- Secured savings and time savings thanks to recognized expertise.
- Generation of a competitive advantage relative to your sector.
- Secure preparation of reimbursement, exemption, and aid application files.
- Support, follow-up, and communication with the administration.
- Continuous regulatory monitoring and analysis of potential impacts for your company.
Business Cases & Témoignages Clients
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Business Case
Optimization of taxation on natural gas, propane, and electricity and support in obtaining energy aid (6 GWh)
€120k in average annual savings from tax optimizations and €82k in energy aid obtained.
“CRISTAL DÉCISIONS has been supporting us for several years on energy taxation, particularly in preparing aid application files during the energy crisis. The teams’ rigorous work and determination helped us get through this critical period. I therefore reaffirm our trust in the CRISTAL firm.”
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Business Case
Optimization of taxation related to electricity excise duty for a bakery network (13 GWh)
Average annual savings of €250k on electricity excise duty.
“Their expertise, both in tax matters and in distribution, enabled us to implement concrete optimizations and achieve sustainable savings.”
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Business Case
Support in obtaining Carbon compensation aid (25 GWh)
Between €400k and €700k in aid obtained per year.
“CRISTAL DÉCISIONS demonstrated great responsiveness in assembling the carbon compensation file, allowing us to obtain the funds on time. It is a pleasure to work with them!”
Understand your objectives and priorities
- Visibility & management: consolidate consumption data and costs at group level, benchmark locally negotiated prices, and track contract deadlines country by country.
- Price & market risks: manage exposure to wholesale market volatility, define a common purchasing policy, and sign contracts at the best purchasing windows.
- Regulatory & tax complexity: secure local specificities (deregulated markets, taxes, regulated parameters), detect billing errors, and ensure reliable data for CSRD / CS3D.
- Organization & governance: balance group centralization with subsidiary autonomy, and compensate for the lack of in-house expertise in energy markets.
- Energy transition & ESG: structure renewable sourcing (GO/REC, PPA) aligned with Net Zero commitments and adapted to each market.
Deploy our approach
- Centralize — Group energy unit with a single point of contact, comprehensive mapping of sites, contracts, and expenses by component (market vs regulation).
- Harmonize — Group purchasing policy rolled out by country, fixed/indexed mix tailored to risk profiles, supplier reference framework and unified reporting (currency and consolidated format), integration of green offers (EAC, PPA).
- Optimize — Identification of optimization opportunities (capacity structure, tariff options, recoverable taxes), analytical price breakdown by country (energy / network / taxes), and systematic invoice auditing to recover overpayments.
- Control — Real-time group dashboard (costs, consumption, budget variances, price alerts and deadlines), continuous budget tracking, turnkey deliverables for reporting, and identification of the best forward purchasing windows.
Generate concrete and sustainable results
- Full control of energy costs across the group: real-time visibility country by country, reliable budget forecasts, and documented, auditable savings.
- Controlled exposure to market risks thanks to a structured purchasing strategy (fixed/indexed mix/forward buying) that absorbs market cycles.
- A simplified organization freed from low-value tasks: no more manual invoice consolidation or urgent renewals — finance and procurement teams can refocus on their strategic priorities.
- Regulatory and ESG compliance ensured without additional effort: reliable, structured, and verifiable energy data always available for reporting.
Business Cases & Témoignages Clients
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Business Case
Procurement performance plan across Europe, Africa, the Americas, and Asia (€6.9M in spend, 51 GWh of electricity consumption).
Actions with potential and achieved savings of 5 to 10%.
“I consistently see real added value thanks to their advice and work. I trust them and appreciate their daily support in helping me achieve my objectives in terms of savings, as well as the decarbonization of our production.”
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Business Case
Management of energy procurement (around €35M and 300 GWh/year of electricity and natural gas across 9 countries and around thirty plants).
Harmonized and controlled scope, overall budget reduced by حوالي 10%.
“This is exactly what they wanted to see.”
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Business Case
Audit of the electricity and natural gas purchasing strategy (more than 1,000 delivery points, 350 GWh/year and £70M).
Adjustment of the purchasing strategy and introduction of flexible pricing, €500k in savings over 2 years.
“The deliverables are of an excellent standard and we are fully satisfied with them.”
Understanding your objectives and priorities
- A multitude of providers: cleaning, maintenance, reception, security, or space management are often entrusted to several providers, which complicates management.
- Poorly optimized contracts: lack of visibility on service levels, performance indicators, or costs.
- Insufficient operational management: without clear indicators, it becomes difficult to track service quality and identify areas for improvement.
- A poorly structured outsourcing strategy: companies must find the right balance between insourcing and outsourcing to control costs while ensuring service quality.
Deploy our approach
- Audit of your general services: analysis of services, contracts, costs and service levels.
- Definition of a Facility Management strategy: identification of the most relevant model (FM, multi-technical, multiservice, separate trades, single provider or integrated model).
- Tendering of suppliers: organization and AMO management of tenders and negotiation with service providers.
- Support for deployment: steering implementation during the pre-operation phase or during the first 6 months of operation.
- Implementation of management tools: deployment of performance indicators and dashboards to monitor service quality.
Generate concrete and sustainable results
- Improved service quality for employees.
- Better control of costs related to the work environment.
- A more efficient organization of Facility Management.
- Clear management of your suppliers and contracts.
Business Cases & Témoignages Clients
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Business Case
Procurement performance plan for an industrial group (€500M spend, 15 categories)
Savings of 8%, i.e., €40M identified, €28M achieved in 18 months.
“A structured procurement function recognized by top management as a performance lever.”
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Business Case
Optimization of energy purchasing for a network of 200 tertiary sites (50 GWh/year)
15% reduction in the annual energy bill (€2.1M in recurring savings).
“A secure purchasing strategy with 3-year visibility and structured price hedging.”
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Business Case
Deployment of 500 charging stations for a mobility group (25 sites)
TCO 20% lower than the initially envisioned solution (saving €1.5M).
“An operational charging network in 9 months with a validated and profitable business model.”
Understand your objectives and your priorities
- Lease commitments poorly aligned with your needs: commercial leases, rents, service charges or works may no longer match the evolution of your business or your ways of working.
- A lack of visibility on real estate costs: without a detailed analysis of your contracts and your expenses, it becomes difficult to identify optimization levers and savings opportunities.
- A temporary lack of resources: during large-scale deployment campaigns or in-depth cost analyses, the resources to be mobilized in a short time are sometimes difficult to find.
- An insufficiently structured real estate strategy: between lease renewals, the search for new locations or site rationalization, real estate decisions are often made on the fly without an overall vision.
- A sometimes unfavorable landlord-tenant balance: in a changing real estate market, companies must be able to renegotiate their lease commitments and adjust their locations to remain competitive.
- Analysis of your real estate portfolio: comprehensive assessment (leases, rents, charges, contractual commitments), site visits, stakeholder interviews and development of a site-by-site strategy or via a master plan.
- Identification of optimization levers: renegotiation of rents and charges, early termination or return of premises, renewal or extension of leases, optimization of territorial coverage, search for or redeployment of locations.
- Negotiation and operational implementation: negotiation with landlords, management of real estate actions and deployment of strategic decisions.
- Establishment of sustainable management: real estate dashboards and performance indicators (KPIs) to track costs, site performance and anticipate future optimizations.
Generate concrete and sustainable results
- Significant savings: 15 to 35% on rents, charges, and real estate commitments.
- A real estate strategy aligned with your business: clear view of your portfolio and an adapted strategy (development, rationalization, optimization of locations).
- A better balance in the relationship with landlords thanks to in-depth expertise in the market and contractual practices.
- Sustainable management of your real estate portfolio: tools and dashboards to monitor performance and anticipate future decisions.
Business Cases & Témoignages Clients
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Business Case
Support in implementing the master plan of a CAC 40 group at the national level (around 70 branches).
25% savings, i.e. €1.5M in the first year, meeting objectives and timelines, reduction of the real estate footprint.
“A structured purchasing function recognized as a performance driver by top management.”
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Business Case
Definition and deployment of the real estate strategy of a mid-sized company in the Île-de-France region.
45% savings, i.e. €2.6M in the first year, search for a new location, early termination of two commercial leases.
“A secure real estate strategy with 3-year visibility and a controlled cost trajectory.”
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Business Case
Audit of commitments and real estate costs for an international retail player (around 100 stores).
10% savings across the entire analyzed scope, i.e. €15M, and reduction of the effort rate.
“A consolidated view of the portfolio and a prioritized action plan to sustainably optimize occupancy costs.”
Understand your objectives and priorities
- High and hard-to-control costs: lack of transparency in long-term lease rents, undetected billing errors, under-monitored refurbishment costs, poorly optimized benefits in kind.
- An outdated or unsuitable vehicle policy (Car Policy) that does not align with regulatory changes (eco tax penalty, ZFE, benefits in kind) or with your employees’ expectations.
- Tenders conducted without reliable market benchmarking, resulting in unbalanced contracts with leasing companies, rental providers, insurers and fuel managers.
- An energy transition that is endured rather than managed: lack of an electrification roadmap, uncertainties about charging stations, subsidies and tax impacts.
- Insufficient management: scattered data, non-existent or partial reporting, lack of a consolidated TCO dashboard to arbitrate and justify your decisions to the Finance Department.
- Cross-functional challenges poorly coordinated between Procurement, HR, Finance, CSR and General Management, leading to siloed decision-making.
Deploy our approach
- Audit & diagnostics — Comprehensive fleet analysis (TCO per vehicle, Car Policy compliance, review of leasing contracts), benchmarking of pricing conditions against market best practices and identification of immediate and structural savings levers.
- Cost & contract optimization — Management of tenders (long-term leasing, fuel/energy cards, fleet insurance, tires), redesign or creation of the Car Policy incorporating regulatory requirements (LOM law, ZFE decree, benefit in kind, TVS) and review of refurbishment costs, mileage penalties and benefits in kind.
- Greening & energy transition — Electrification roadmap (EVs and plug-in hybrids) tailored to usage mix and budget, framing of charging station deployment (on-site and at home) and selection of operators, CO2 penalty impact analysis, fleet carbon footprint and contribution to CSR objectives.
- Performance management — dashboards and reporting (TCO, budget, claims frequency, CO2 emissions), control of billing data and rent consistency (anomaly detection, account reconciliation), budget support and preparation of trade-offs.
Generate concrete and sustainable results
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A measurable reduction in the total cost of ownership (TCO) of your fleet, typically 5 to 15% from the first year.
More competitive and balanced supplier contracts, renegotiated based on independent market benchmarks.
An updated Car Policy, compliant with the latest regulatory changes and leveraged as an HR tool. - A clear and financially secure electrification roadmap, aligned with your CSR commitments.
- Operational management tools enabling your teams to track the fleet budget and anticipate deviations.
- A single, independent and expert point of contact that aligns internal stakeholders (CFO, HR Director, Procurement, CSR) around a coherent fleet strategy.
Business Cases & Témoignages Clients
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Business Case
Fleet diagnostic
Contractual issues identified at 5 to 18%, AEN roadmap delivered for January 2026 and a common set of best practices presented across the 5 entities, one month before the regulatory deadline.
“Neutrality and benchmarking that objectify gaps between entities without internal bias, with AEN/URSSAF expertise that secures decisions.”
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Business Case
Implementation of a single policy
370 renewals initiated, 12% savings generated and €190k in cash recovered immediately by readjusting contracts.
“A cost-controlled premium catalog that accelerates fleet electrification while aligning 1,200 employees with a unified group policy.”
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Business Case
Operational support for implementing fleet strategies (vehicle policy framework, management of LLD contracts and alignment of Procurement / HR / Finance functions).
Better coordinated fleet decisions across departments and tool-supported management of TCO and renewals.
“Cross-functional support that turns the fleet into a lever for performance and compliance.”
Understand your objectives and priorities
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Poorly framed infrastructure deployment: no prior feasibility study (electrical capacity, condominium, fleet evolution), multiple scenarios (on-site / home / roaming) without an overall architecture, fragmented supplier offering (IRVE installers, CPOs, MSPs, aggregators) with no independent benchmark, and regulatory obligations not well understood (LOM law, IRVE certification, supervision, smart charging).
Nonexistent or partial tracking of electricity consumption: no reliable reporting of kWh per vehicle/employee, inability to distinguish business and personal use on home chargers (URSSAF risk), lack of supervision or not interfaced with fleet management, and limited traceability of charging across multi-operator roaming. - Unsecured employee reimbursements: absence of a formalized policy for home charging, manual calculations using approximate flat rates, no automated interface with payroll, and risk of URSSAF non-compliance in the absence of supporting documents.
- Poorly managed taxation — benefit in kind and VAT: AEN rules not well known (temporary exemptions, caps), confusion over the VAT treatment of charging expenses and lack of a consolidated business case (fuel savings, lower TVS, subsidies, OPEX) to validate ROI with Finance (DAF).
Deploy our approach
- Step 1 — Audit & sizing of needs: analysis of actual usage (mileage, trip profiles, parking time), assessment of existing electrical infrastructure (main LV switchboard (TGBT), building/condominium constraints) and mapping of the 3 charging scenarios (on-site, home, roaming).
- Step 2 — Consumption management & supervision: centralized supervision platform (kWh per vehicle, employee, site, charging type), reporting rules (business / personal distinction, alerts, monthly consolidation) and interfacing with fleet management software for a complete TCO view.
- Step 3 — Consumption management & supervision: centralized supervision platform (kWh per vehicle, employee, site, charging type), reporting rules (business / personal distinction, alerts, monthly consolidation) and interfacing with fleet management software for a complete TCO view.
- Step 4 — Employee reimbursements & declaration of benefits in kind: home reimbursement process at actual kWh or URSSAF scale, procedures and expense report templates integrated into the Car Policy, structuring of the tax regime (BIK exemption under conditions, VAT treatment) and automation of flows to the HRIS.
- Step 5 — Financing optimization & business case: CAPEX / OPEX modeling over 5 years, advice on the optimal financing structure (purchase with accelerated depreciation, IRVE-as-a-Service, third-party investment, CPO model) and processing of subsidies (regional, 5.5% VAT for home, tax credit, CEE).
Generate concrete and sustainable results
- A tailored charging master plan covering the 3 scenarios (site / home / on-the-go), sized based on your actual usage and scalable with your fleet.
- An IRVE tender managed from A to Z — specifications, comparative analysis, negotiation — with competitive and technically secure supplier contracts.
- An operational monitoring platform offering full visibility into electricity consumption by vehicle, employee, and site, interfaced with your existing tools.
- A compliant, automated, and fair employee reimbursement process: calculation based on actual kWh, structured HR processing, zero manual entry.
- A documented and secured management of benefits in kind from a tax and social perspective, integrated into your HRIS and validated by your legal teams.
- An EV charging infrastructure business case ready for the executive committee: calculated ROI, compared financing structures, leveraged subsidies — to obtain your CFO’s approval and fund your transition.
- A single, independent point of contact that aligns CFO, HR, Procurement, CSR, and IT around a coherent, sustainable, and controlled charging infrastructure.
Business Cases & Témoignages Clients
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Business Case
Support on corporate EV charging strategy: defining site/home/on-the-road scenarios, selecting operators, and managing deployment.
Charging infrastructure aligned with the fleet’s actual usage and an operational framework established for reimbursements and supervision.
“An electric transition secured technically, fiscally, and financially.”
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Business Case
Structuring a multi-site charging solution to support fleet electrification: EV charging infrastructure architecture, contracting with operators, and home reimbursement process
An operational and financial framework consolidated across the entire scope, with centralized monitoring of consumption.
“A coordinated rollout that turns charging into a performance lever rather than a source of friction.”