Graduated from Ecole de Commerce de Paris, before a specialization in purchasing at the ESAP, François Lassalle evolved during 25 years within worldwide size car equipment manufacturers (Lucas, Automotive Products, Sommer-Allibert Siemens) and smaller industrial companies. At the position of Director of European then worldwide Purchasing, Suppliers quality and Logistics, he federates multifunctional teams around him by managing purchases in project and mass production, direct and MRO, OE and replacement.
Numerous stays in the USA, in Eastern Europe, in China and Japan bring him to weave a dense and diversified network.
Internal trainings in strategic negociation, total quality management, early supplier involvement and black belt Six Sigma arm him to seal numerous international partnerships with strategical suppliers, set up annual supplier productivity plans at Allied Signal and finally set up and chair the SEQUA Group European Purchasing Council.
In March 2005, François Lassalle founded FLConsulting, a consultancy company which assists industrial companies in their purchasing and supplier quality developments: evolution of functions, interim management, training and individual/team coaching, Automotive, aeronautics and railways sectors. Among the numerous missions , two for ECE Zodiac can be pointed out: a first one consisting to conduct an organizational survey of the purchasing department and a second one to write and deploy an improvement plan for the purchasing process.
With 12 associates, he creates in 2009 Team Auto Consulting, one of the rare consultancy company clustering all the specific expertise of the automotive sector for the benefit of industrial companies acting in automotive, aeronautics, railways and energy.
Furthermore, François Lassalle is:
- Speaker in the biannual seminar of Eurostaf/Les Echos “How the car industry will get out from the crisis?”
- Training officer on topics “purchasing in Best Competitive Countries” during the annual IAEC congress
- Co-animator of the module Purchasing in the “Institute of the Management Automotive” in Metz
- Founder and animator of the “International Business Days” (B2B meetings between industrial companies) on the occasion of Le Mans 24 Hours.
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