Procurement Excellence

Procurement is a key strategic performance indicator for companies. With volatile supply markets, increasing requirements with respect to resilience and transparency as well as increasing pressure on costs and results, procurement functions are facing complex challenges. But how can strategy, organization, processes and digitalization be aligned in such a way that procurement can fully exert its regulating effect? We know the way. We will show you how to develop your procurement to be efficient, resilient and value-oriented.

Our solution approach

Our approach : We align your procurement towards the future

Do you want to get to grips with individual optimization initiatives? Or get straight to work on implementing a holistic transformation project? We accompany you through all your strategic questions and align your procurement to be fit for the future. From product group management and supplier management through procurement strategy and organization to digitalization: There are seven components that form the center of our Procurement Excellence approach.

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Procurement strategy

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

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Product group management

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

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Supplier management

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

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Digitalization and IT systems in procurement

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

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Procurement processes and organization

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)

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Procurement controlling and reporting

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

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Skills in your procurement department

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

Procurement expertise : We effectively embed economic value added

When supporting companies with procurement, what counts for us is achieving measurable results. We combine strategic and conceptual skills with a distinctly hands-on mindset and excellent practical implementation. We consistently align our measures to your goals and implement them together with you. This creates sustainable economic value added which is effectively anchored in your procurement processes.