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Would you like to reduce your procurement costs, optimise procurement processes and structures, or do you need staff for procurement?
Then KLOEPFEL by EPSA – Germany, the multi-award-winning purchasing consultancy, is precisely the right place for you. We support you in optimising purchasing costs as well as structures and processes, and in sustainably strengthening your supply chains. Furthermore, we assist with recruitment for central purchasing functions and ensure that your team is optimally positioned, both professionally and organisationally. Our approach is pragmatic, collaborative and success-oriented. The results are directly reflected in your company's success.
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We are consulting experts in procurement, supply chain and logistics
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Together with its parent company, EPSA Group, KLOEPFEL by EPSA is the largest consultancy group in the pan-European region specializing in procurement and supply chain management, with over 5,000 experts, 16,000 clients in 40 countries, and a turnover of €600 million. KLOEPFEL by EPSA – Germany, with 110 employees and its headquarters in Düsseldorf, has already successfully implemented over 2,000 projects.
5.000
Experts
40
Countries
16.000
Clients
600 million.
Turnover
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Three core areas of expertise that strategically drive your success
Our services
Structure & Process Optimisation
Through targeted structural and process optimisation, we make your workflows more efficient and better aligned. This reduces costs, avoids frictional losses, and sustainably increases your company's productivity.
Cost optimisation
Through effective cost optimisation, we identify and specifically reduce your expenses. This creates financial flexibility, increases your competitiveness, and secures long-term business success.
Personnel services
In the area of HR services, we find tailored talent for your company – on an interim basis, long-term, or through international specialists. With targeted selection and effective recruiting, we sustainably strengthen your team and help you achieve your goals.
Services from our strong EPSA partners
We provide targeted support in the areas of structural and process optimisation, cost optimisation, and recruitment. With our holistic approach, we create sustainable results and guide you from the initial concept to concrete implementation – individually tailored to your requirements.
Grant advice
EPSA began as a specialist in optimising operational procurement processes and has developed into a leading consulting firm in Europe in recent years.
Since 2020, EPSA has been successfully operating in the German market, specialising in grant consulting, financing, and energy.
360° Funding Advice:
Research grant
• R&D grants
Investment incentives
Accelerating your environmental transformation:
EPSA Energy: Optimising Your Energy Challenges
Strengthening your operational expertise:
• Optimising your procurement processes
Sustainability consulting
Our sister company, ekodev, a sustainability consultancy, can help you define and implement your CSR and climate strategy.
• Recording and assessment of environmental impacts
Strategic Consulting & Operational Implementation
• Change Management
• Development of common goals, measures, and commitments in the area of CSR
To reduce the environmental impact of your company and make a positive contribution to the social and ecological challenges of our time, ekodev supports you in four complementary thematic areas:
• Corporate Social Responsibility
Climate
Mobility
• Biodiversity
Satisfied customers are our strongest testament
Satisfied customers
KLOEPFEL by EPSA - Germany
Our consulting experts in Germany
Our head office is located in beautiful Düsseldorf, a vibrant city with an international flair. From here, we manage our consulting services and support clients across Germany and beyond. Please feel free to contact us if you require assistance with optimising your procurement.
Improvement of payment terms
Cost structure analyses and supplier workshops
Many purchasers often lack knowledge of their suppliers' cost structures. A transparent supplier cost structure is the best defence against price increase demands. Through accurate analysis of price increase requests and purchasing prices, a basis can be created for successful negotiations and improved processes at the supplier. This requires figures and facts, which no supplier willingly discloses. Kloepfel Consulting solves this with the five-time award-winning software, Cost Control. This software includes all available manufacturing modules and is specifically tailored to the needs of a manufacturing company. The Cost Control tool thus represents a valuable system for the exact and comprehensive analysis of any manufacturing costs.
Further costs can be revealed through so-called supplier workshops. The workshop is conducted with close involvement of the suppliers, to identify and realise cost potentials, thereby strengthening renegotiations.
"Would you like to strategically align your purchasing processes early on, or do you have other questions about KLOEPFEL Consulting?"
Global Procurement
The list of good reasons for global sourcing is long: low prices, adaptable suppliers, and the development of new markets. Standard and spare parts in particular can be produced abroad cheaply and to a high standard. Buyers who are faced with sourcing the best goods at the cheapest prices every day are therefore increasingly relying on global sourcing. For example, more than half of all German companies purchase from China.
However, the quality standards of German-speaking medium-sized companies can often stand in the way of some business. Continuous risk management, prevention of know-how drain, quality management, and stringent supplier development are therefore important. Annoyances can also be avoided through a deeper understanding of culture. If this is mastered, it is possible, for example, to order purchased parts such as cast or forged parts, as well as manually manufactured engines, on favourable terms.
Formation of purchasing groups
Collective purchasing can secure price advantages and discounts. The interconnectedness of companies through goods management systems and the exchange of experience serves as an early warning system to reduce decision-making risks. Purchasing communities can be used for economisation in central company areas such as purchasing, marketing, human resources, financing, and legal departments.
Delivery time optimisation
File optimisation
To analyse the extent of excessive inventory levels, an ABC/XYZ analysis is helpful. If this is supplemented by inventory ranges and the distribution of inventory values, the complexity of C-parts is reduced and expertise in planning is specifically built up, buyers can finally breathe a sigh of relief. The slow-moving items can usually be identified quickly.
Long-term and sustainable inventory optimisation requires process optimisation along the entire value chain. The topics for the specialist departments are then, for example:
- Product life cycle,
- File responsibility,
- Target ranges,
- C-parts management,
- Legal costs,
- Kanban,
- Framework agreements,
- Mechanisms for inlet and outlet control,
- Standardisation in construction,
- optimal product mix considering manufacturing capacities,
- Assembly costs and
- Internal logistics.
When all departments are integrated into this process and have internalised their contribution to success, this paves the way for sustainable optimisation of inventory levels.