Procurement Excellence

We consider a tailored procurement strategy to be essential in order to increase the economic value added of your procurement organization. Even at this stage we are already considering the future questions and challenges relevant to your procurement department. Our experts make use of many tried and tested methods:  

• Analyzing the maturity level of your procurement function by means of standardized quick checks 
• Developing future-proof target structures for your procurement 
• Translating strategic goals into a roadmap as the basis for sustainable transformation

We introduce strategic product group management which ensures supply security for your business as well as the ideal cost level for external expenses. This is implemented using our cost engineering methodology:  

• Analyze spend data 
• Identify optimization potential for reducing costs in product groups 
• Develop company- and industry-specific product group strategies 
• Implement optimization measures which are lasting and measurable

We understand supplier management to mean holistically shaping, managing and developing your supplier portfolio and your company’s supplier relationships. We see it as a continuous process which we supplement with specific risk management. We can help you:  

• Select, evaluate and develop suppliers at strategic and operational level 
• Design and implement contract management solutions 
• Optimize supplier risk management to secure your supply chain

Supplier collaboration clouds, robotics, spend data analytics, big data – digitalization and IT systems offer valuable opportunities for ensuring your procurement is optimally positioned for the future. Our experienced team supports you in these areas:  

• Developing a digitalization strategy and clear guiding principles for the digital transformation of your procurement 
• Selecting, implementing and optimizing e-procurement solutions 
• Implementing AI in procurement in an efficient and targeted manner 

Efficient processes and effective organizational structures make your procurement function ready to make a difference. We offer sustainable solutions that take into account industry- and product-group-specific, geographical and strategic considerations. These are also cross-functional, as we target structured cooperation with other departments and suppliers:  

• Holistically optimizing the operating model 
• Analyzing, standardizing and optimizing Plan-to-Strategy, Source-to-Contract, Purchase-to-Pay and all support processes 
• Developing organizational structures at global, regional or local level 
• Introducing shared service center (SSC) or outsourcing projects (BPO)

Targeted management of procurement at the strategic and operational level: For us, this is the decisive factor for successfully leading the procurement function in times of highly volatile supply markets and growing internal change processes. With the help of a consistent management concept, we make procurement performance and output transparent as well as plausible, clear and logical:  

• Selecting and defining appropriate and durable key indicators 
• Designing balanced controlling and management systems for procurement and converting them into automated procurement reporting solutions 

For your procurement optimizations to be enduringly successful, your managers and employees need to also apply the developed concepts and introduced systems. We accompany your business through the change process and support your employees with our proven change management approach:  

• Identifying further training needs based on holistic skills models 
• Generating training programs for the specific further development of employees in procurement and in interface functions 
• Developing and executing customer- and participant-specific training courses and seminars 
• Establishing targeted communication