Purchasing advice for ambitious SMEs

We are doers with methodological expertise. Effective, quickly realizable results are at the forefront of our customer projects.

As specialists in purchasing and category management, we know the relevant earnings levers and focus on agile and efficient purchasing processes, stable supply chains, margin-optimized product range strategies and holistically optimized inventory management.

Our medium-sized customers from the wholesale, retail and e-commerce sectors appreciate our practical approach and our pragmatic, cost-effective solutions.

Purchasing advice for ambitious SMEs

We are doers with methodological expertise. Effective, quickly realizable results are at the forefront of our customer projects.

As specialists in purchasing and category management, we know the relevant earnings levers and focus on agile and efficient purchasing processes, stable supply chains, margin-optimized product range strategies and holistically optimized inventory management.

Our medium-sized customers from the wholesale, retail and e-commerce sectors appreciate our practical approach and our pragmatic, cost-effective solutions.

Product portfolio

Workshops, sprints, audits & more.

As little advice as possible, but also as much as necessary. That is exactly our claim.

That’s why we have developed themed modules on purchasing and product ranges in line with our specialization, which we can use to achieve important improvements in a short space of time and with little effort.
Sometimes a workshop is enough, sometimes it should be a category or margin sprint.

Your advantage: reliable methods, unerring analyses and concrete recommendations for action.
This is how purchasing consulting works today.

Our product portfolio

Purchasing advice

Strategy meets digitalization and big data: we work with you to develop a precise road map for strategic efficiency in procurement. 

Product group management

Quickly effective improvements in results through a holistically optimized product range strategy.

Product group strategy

The goal: sustainable competitive advantages through a market-dominant product range strategy.

ESG & purchasing management

How future-proof and proactive is your purchasing department?

We check weak points and make specific recommendations for action.

Supply chain optimization

Never before has a functioning supply chain been of such existential importance. And purchasing has never been so important.

Organizational consulting

Purchasing is becoming the control center in retail.
We make your organization agile and fit for the future.

The modules in detail

Purchasing advice

Purchasing 4.0 workshop

This workshop will take your purchasing to the next level and create the conditions for long-term competitive advantages.

Together with your team, we develop your individual roadmap for an efficient, agile and value-enhancing purchasing organization.
The aim of the workshop is to develop action plans and prioritize them.

Procedure:

  1. Preparation: initial situation, goals, participants, pain points
  2. Workshop: Development and prioritization of action plans along the strategic thrust.
  3. Evaluation: Documentation and recommendations for implementation

Purchasing advice

Product group management

Sprint margins

Category excellence is more than a methodology, category excellence is a philosophy: with this holistic understanding, we examine strategies, performance, processes and structures.

At the end of the 2-3 week sprint, you will know exactly where you stand, which weaknesses should be eliminated and which potentials can be realized in the short and medium term.

Procedure:

  1. Briefing: initial situation, goals, key figures
  2. Analyses: performance, processes, interviews, tools
  3. Strategy check: Workshops
  4. Evaluation: Documentation, action plans and recommendations for implementation

Product group management

Product group strategy

Category management strategy

Benefit from our category management method: With the combination of a systematic category review and genuine customer insights (what does your customer really want), we develop strategic margin and growth potential.

We then jointly evaluate and prioritize different strategy options based on short and medium-term goals.

Procedure:

  1. Briefing: Goals and description of the initial situation
  2. Reviews: Performance analysis of the product groups
  3. Customer Insights: Interviews and evaluation of further documents
  4. Strategy dialog: Evaluation of product range potential
  5. Strategy report: opportunity/risk profile, recommendations

Category Management

Environment, Social and Governance

ESG Procurement Audit

In SMEs in particular, many ESG requirements are still treated as a tedious compulsory exercise.
Understandable, but not sustainable.

Using our magic purchasing octagon, we review and revise the existing prioritizations in the respective purchasing groups.
We then work with you to develop a target picture and methods for a future-oriented purchasing strategy.
Our audit makes an explicit distinction between legal requirements and strategic opportunities and risks.

Procedure:

  1. Briefing: Goals and description of the initial situation
  2. As-is assessment: Which requirements are we fulfilling well?
  3. Goals: Evaluation of magic hexagon per purchasing group
  4. Prioritization: Which parameters must be prioritized per category
  5. Action plan: Recommendations for concrete implementation measures
  6. Final report: documentation and recommendations for future steps

ESG Procurement Audit

Supply chain optimization

Supply chain efficiency & resilience

Complex procurement processes, inefficient supply chains and inventories that are not in line with strategy are weighing on the sales growth and margins of many wholesalers.
In addition, the challenges on the global procurement markets are constantly on the rise, overtaxing some organizations.

With our Supply Chain Program, we optimize purchasing processes, inventories and supplier networks and offer immediate added value.

Procedure:

  1. Briefing: Goals and description of the initial situation
  2. Data analysis & structured interviews: How we quickly find potential weaknesses
  3. Optimization of supplier portfolio: Improvements in purchasing conditions
  4. Prioritization of all measures: Together we determine the sequence and scope of the measures.
  5. Final report: documentation and recommendations for future steps

Supply chain optimization

Organizational consulting

The agile purchasing organization

Never before have the framework conditions for procurement changed so dramatically and so quickly.
This requires completely new skills, processes, methods and forms of organization.

Using structured interviews and selected process analyses, we uncover weaknesses, review the interaction with other stakeholders and work with you to develop a blue print for an effective and strategy-compliant purchasing organization.
We also examine the effective use of common tools.

Procedure:

  1. Briefing: Goals and description of the initial situation
  2. Analysis phase: Structured interviews, workshops and process analyses
  3. Blue Print: Strategy, organization, collaboration
  4. Processes and tools: Specific recommendations for further improvements
  5. Final report: documentation and recommendations for next steps

Organizational consulting

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