Supply Chain Consulting

Our comprehensive experience with methods and industries forms the foundation for a broad analysis of your current situation in terms of customers, competition, and the market. Based on this analysis, we derive an individual strength/weakness profile for your supply chain and work with you to develop a concept for planning and executing necessary change processes as part of your individual supply chain design. Typical objectives include the development of a supply chain strategy, realignment or consolidation of business processes, location analyses, transport data analyses, make-or-buy analyses, and optimization of distribution and transport strategies.

Globalized markets, growing competitive and cost pressure, increasing demands in terms of quality and service, and stricter legal requirements concerning the traceability and documentation of goods are the factors that define your day as a logistics specialist. But how efficient were your past projects, really? Is it possible or necessary to make further adjustments? Has your organization adjusted effectively to the new processes? Our logistics check provides the answers to these questions: An interdisciplinary team of experts assess your logistics processes and checks the effectiveness of aspects such as IT customization, logistics technology, and your KPI and reporting system. Additionally, we analyze and evaluate real quantity and structural data such as customer orders, stock deposits, transfers, removals in the warehouse, picking and transport orders, and inventory data. Based on these insights, we then draw up proven approaches for implementation that will reduce throughput times, error rates, and process costs, among other things.

Do your logistics processes or your warehouse need to be updated to meet new demands? Greenfield or structural expansion, changing the level of automation, new acquisitions or retrofitting – with logistics planning 4.0, we deliver a comprehensive, effective approach to planning. Using virtual reality, we create realistic models to inspect future logistics systems, simulate logistics systems, and generate detailed evaluations that take physical and mechanical properties into account, and test warehouse management systems (including virtual commissioning), allowing us to create the ideal conditions for the perfect project result. In this way, we improve the cost-effectiveness of your logistics processes while concurrently giving you a maximum degree of planning security.

Industry 4.0, the Internet of Things, digitalization, 3D printing, M2M, same-day delivery: Numerous disruptive technologies are already influencing today’s value-added chains and replacing tried-and-true best practices. M2M communication, for instance, is eliminating the need for complex process management systems, and 3D printing processes are making it easier to develop multi-stage warehousing concepts. However, these technologies are also increasing the degree of urgency and complexity of IT solutions in supply chain management. Strategies, processes, technologies, organization, and IT are increasingly merging – but only the right combination of these factors will give you the competitive edge. We want to see you succeed, so we offer 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 tackle the digital transformation of your logistics processes.