Supply Chain Consulting

Based on our industry experience and methods in supply chain optimization, we analyze your entire competitive, customer, and market situation. We create a strengths and weaknesses profile of the overall logistics as an as-is situation. Based on this, we can develop a resilient supply chain design concept together with you. Typical elements of supply chain consulting include the realignment and consolidation of existing business processes, the analysis of locations, transport data, make-or-buy techniques, and the optimization of transport and distribution strategies.

Internationalization of markets, increasing competition and cost pressure, growing quality and service requirements, or increasing legal requirements for traceability and documentation of goods determine your everyday life as a logistics specialist in supply chain management. But how efficiently are the projects already implemented really? Should further adjustments be made in supply chain management? Have your employees effectively adapted to the new processes? We offer answers to these questions with our supply chain management consulting: An interdisciplinary team of experts examines your logistics processes and checks, among other things, IT customizing, logistics technology, as well as your key figures and reporting system for effectiveness and efficiency. In addition, we analyze and evaluate real quantity and structure data, such as customer orders, stock placements/replacements/removals in the warehouse, picking and transport orders, and inventory data. Based on the findings, we create practice-proven implementation proposals within the scope of supply chain optimization to reduce, e.g., lead times, error rates, and process costs and thus ensure better key figures in the various logistics and production areas.

Does your supply chain management need to be adapted to new circumstances? Whether it is a change in the degree of automation, greenfield or structural expansion, a recent acquisition, or retrofit - with "Logistics Planning 4.0," we offer you a holistic and effective planning approach in our supply chain management consulting. In a virtual working environment, we generate realistic models for companies' supply chains to inspect future logistics systems, simulate these logistics systems, and obtain detailed evaluations taking into account physical and mechanical properties. We test warehouse management systems, including virtual commissioning, and thus create the conditions for the optimal project result within our supply chain consulting scope. In this way, we improve the profitability of your logistics projects and, at the same time, create maximum planning security for supply chain optimization.

Industry 4.0, the Internet of Things, digitization, 3D printing, M2M, same-day delivery - numerous disruptive technologies are already influencing value chains and logistics processes and replacing tried-and-tested best practices: For example, M2M communication is already making complex process control systems obsolete, and 3D printing processes are simplifying multi-level warehouse concepts. As a result, IT solutions' degree of penetration and complexity in supply chain management is growing. Strategy, operations, technologies, organization, and IT are increasingly merging - but only the correct mix will give you decisive competitive advantages. To help you secure these advantages, our supply chain consulting services include an "Industry 4.0" readiness check, a "Supply Chain Management 2025" assessment, a supply chain execution platform, and integrated mobile SCM solutions in SAP. We help you master the digital transformation in logistics and adapt supply management optimization individually to your company and your industry. Thanks to our supply chain consulting, you remain competitive against competitors and build resilient structures integrating the latest technologies.