- Improved service and higher customer satisfaction through efficient supply chains
- Reduced costs, fewer delays, and lower revenue losses
- Efficient control of supply and demand and optimised stock levels.
- Agile Production and Logistics Processes, Taking into Account Regulatory Requirements and Customs Advantages
- Strengthened liquidity, optimised cash conversion cycle, and increased resilience through targeted end-to-end transformation
- Greater transparency and better process integration along the entire supply chain
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Why our supply chain consulting convinces
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Our supply chain expertise enables holistic end-to-end solutions from customer inquiry to final delivery. We accompany our customers along the entire value chain, thereby creating the basis for sustainable transformation. In this way, we solve individual challenges along the supply chain and ensure efficient, flexible, and future-proof processes.
We don't talk, we deliver. Our focus is on measurable results and concrete implementation. With clear goal orientation and pragmatic action, we create genuine added value for our clients, ensuring that strategies turn into tangible outcomes. These outcomes will also be measurable in the organisation's key performance indicators.
With EPSA, we operate across locations and cultures. Our international presence and intercultural competence enable us to manage projects efficiently across multiple countries and teams. This is how we combine global reach with local understanding for seamless collaboration and sustainable success. Furthermore, we exchange our experiences and best practices from numerous projects, allowing us to successfully implement innovative approaches worldwide.
Our experience shows that we can typically reduce stock levels by between 5 to 20 % by redesigning value streams and specifically adjusting planning parameters. With the same or improved delivery capability, capital commitment is optimised and agility across the entire supply chain is increased.
We consistently align supply chain organisations with customer benefits. For example, we improve processes and governance in demand and capacity planning to create transparency, increase planning certainty, optimise resource deployment, and thereby deliver faster and more reliably. We also manage and implement efficiency programmes so that the improvements achieved become noticeably and sustainably effective for the customer.
As an experienced partner in SCM and procurement matters, we possess extensive project experience in highly technical and complex environments. This combination of technical understanding, process expertise, and project experience across a variety of industries enables us to precisely analyse complex challenges and implement sustainable solutions.
Increase your revenue and company value through holistic supply chain optimisation
Our end-to-end supply chain offering
- Strategy & Network Design We holistically optimise strategy, network and transport to reduce costs and sustainably increase performance.
- Order to Delivery & Stock Control With S&OP, capacity planning, optimisation of control processes, and inventory management, we increase delivery capability and efficiency while lowering costs.
- Manufacturing & Production Through production strategy, Lean Manufacturing & continuous improvement, as well as maintenance/excellence, we sustainably increase efficiency, quality, and plant availability.
- Logistics Management Through customs & compliance, a reliable master data base, and the optimisation of inbound, storage, outbound, last mile, milkrun, and reverse logistics, we create transparent, efficient, and cost-effective logistics processes.
- Transformation By analysing the organisation's maturity and purposefully redesigning the organisation and processes, we increase efficiency, agility, and transparency while reducing complexity.
- Resource management With senior interim management and secondment, we provide experienced professionals at short notice to drive projects forward efficiently and secure expertise.
- Digitalisation & AI: Through process design, data management, AI solutions, and smart manufacturing, we digitalise and automate workflows, increasing transparency, efficiency, and responsiveness.
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We deliver fast, sustainable results with real added value for revenue growth, cash optimization, cost improvement, and customer satisfaction – supported by digital solutions and sustainable resource utilization.
Supply-Chain Optimisation in Practice
ArcelorMittal
Our client, ArcelorMittal, a global steel industry group, faced challenges in maintenance with unclear task assignments, a lack of prioritisation, and inconsistent processes. Additionally, there was no structured continuous improvement (CI) basis for ongoing enhancement, leading to unexplo'd efficiency potential and limiting the productivity of the maintenance team.
The aim was to significantly increase the productivity of the maintenance team, establish a uniform and transparent process in maintenance, and provide methods for all trades.
Through our support, productivity could be increased by 34 %, the standardised method was successfully implemented for all trades and plant utilisation significantly improved.
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Our client, a leading non-food discounter, faced significant challenges in its supply chain. Stockouts and warehouse bottlenecks repeatedly led to inefficient material flows and delayed deliveries to branches. Furthermore, there was a lack of a clear and consistent forecasting strategy to accurately plan demand and optimally manage goods flows.
The project's objective was to develop a holistic forecasting strategy for the sustainable reduction of stockouts. At the same time, it was intended to significantly improve delivery capability and optimise inventory levels throughout the entire value chain.
As part of our collaboration, transparency has been created across the forecast chain, a strategy for reducing stockouts has been developed, and a plan to optimise the supply chain has been implemented.
Your supply chain consultants for sustainable optimisation
KLOEPFEL by EPSA – consulting, Founded in 2007, it is a specialised subsidiary of the EPSA Group, a leading European consulting firm with over 16,000 clients, 5,000 employees and more than €600 million in annual turnover.
Our global team brings extensive experience from over 2,000 projects. This international presence allows us to directly address multicultural and multi-location challenges, leverage worldwide best practices, and support our clients with local knowledge and global expertise.
Kloepfel increases the efficiency of procurement and supply chains, optimises material flows and processes, thereby improving liquidity and profitability. Our consultants deliver practical, tailor-made solutions – well-founded and industry-specific.
We operate across a wide range of industries.
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