Purchasing & Procurement

Make hidden potential visible.

Make quality and deadlines secure.

Purchasing materials, goods and services is a major part of every company’s budget. This makes the purchasing department an important lever to your competitiveness. Especially in the industry, purchasing often faces special challenges, since orders are often very complex and client specifications can vary greatly. Inefficiency in value streams not only leads to higher costs but to massive problems in the supply chain.

Our goal is to make sustainable improvements to purchasing performance and to generate waste-free value chains in addition to simply lowering costs.

Using a variety of approaches, we support your purchasing department in every corporate situation by implementing sustainable effects.

We leverage hidden potential in purchasing, integrate your suppliers and safeguard deadlines and quality. A key aspect of this process is integrating suppliers as partners. This both lowers overall costs and improves the necessary quality and delivery reliability. Lean purchasing is thus a vital pillar in your company’s future.

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Reducing costs and increasing ROI – with expertise in purchasing and Lean

Creating transparency about spend analyses and establishing more efficient and effective structures
Conducting interdisciplinary workshops about product categories and suppliers to identify potential
Optimizing models of prices and conditions by actively managing negotiations
Sustainably lowering costs by minimizing waste in value streams and administration
Optimizing and standardizing products for long-term competitive advantages

Design-to-cost and value engineering via design and process excellence

Determining target costs for individual parts and components
Creating and analyzing product calculations in a variety of scenarios (manufacturing procedures, sites, processes)
Conducting interdisciplinary workshops to identify cost drivers and leverage potential
Integrating suppliers in product-cost optimization
Consistently and sustainably tracking and implementing measures

Purchasing strategies for efficient and effective purchasing

Defining and adapting purchasing strategies to corporate goals
Developing and operationalizing purchasing strategies
Defining areas of activity, measures and responsibilities
Qualifying employees to successfully implement the defined measures

Purchasing processes – minimal waste means fast and smooth procedures

Designing and automating strategic and operational purchasing processes
Reducing interfaces and defining tasks, competencies and responsibilities to prevent downtime
Applying IT standards and ensuring seamless data transfer, which in turn prevents incomplete or inaccurate information
Integrating purchasing into the product-development process early via frontloading

Purchasing structures that comply with processes

Recalibrating the structure based on strategic and operational requirements
Anchoring the functions in strategic and operational purchasing, project purchasing and supplier quality (as needed)
Defining tasks and responsibilities with no redundancies
Coordinating global purchasing strategies and activities

Purchasing goods – minimizing costs and waste

Developing a company-specific product-category index and classification of articles
Establishing product-category documentation for grouping particular specifications from production and assembly
Generating product-category and supplier strategies in keeping with the current market situation
Conducting interdisciplinary product-category workshops about systematic potential development, streamlining work procedures and inventory pooling

Supplier management – collaborative development and integration

Conducting assessments to determine the company’s ability to meet specifications
Identifying problematic areas and their sources on an interdepartmental basis
Prioritizing the need for action
Consistently and sustainably pursuing all of the relevant measures
Reducing or eliminating supplier risk by creating transparency and professional structures

Continuous improvement – a critical aspect of Lean Purchasing

Conducting interdepartmental product-category and supplier workshops
Integrating interface partners in continuous improvement projects about reducing lead time and total cost of ownership
Integrating suppliers in product and process design early on

Digital purchasing – actively designing and paving the way to Industry 4.0

Creating transparency about software-supported information and data management (document management, business intelligence solutions)
Establishing well-functioning processes as the basis for value stream-oriented connected systems (P2P processes)
Connecting direct suppliers horizontally by means of the right software solutions
Selecting and implementing e-procurement tools for automatic order processing of C-parts and indirect material
Integrating digital shopfloor management for efficient leadership of departments across multiple sites
Strengthening key employee competences and qualifications

Leadership and employee qualifications – ongoing improvement

Attaining leadership excellence through visualization, problem-solving competence and regular communications (conventional or digital shopfloor management)
Managing and prioritizing based on figures, data and facts (data management)
Developing employees through mentorship programs
Creating understanding by empowering employees through training, coaching and benchmarking
Systematically expanding employee knowledge via on-the-job training or seminars

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