Purchasing optimisation in the consumer goods industry
Strategic purchasing in the consumer goods industry: mastering complexity and reducing costs
The challenge for consumer goods manufacturers now extends far beyond the high price pressure from the retail sector. In particular, complexity is increasing significantly due to factors such as a rising variety of articles, decreasing release and contract quantities, and more product relaunches. Furthermore, demands on products are increasing, ranging from various sustainability initiatives to stricter legal frameworks that need to be observed. Consequently, procurement has less and less time to dedicate itself to truly strategic tasks. With their many years of industry expertise, our consumer goods team can help you to sustainably uncover hidden profit potential during a project – for example, in the areas of raw materials and commodity markets, packaging, Logistics and indirect costs – to increase your company's profit.
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Example Project Outcome (anonymised)
Processed material groups, among others.
Packaging films, solid cardboard, corrugated cardboard, labels, aluminium blanks, stretch film, other packaging, security services, sales packaging licensing, insurance, rental laundry, waste disposal, industrial gases, electrical wholesale
Example Project Scorecard
Project volume: €13.8 million
Turnover: €9.9 million
Project Team: 2 Consultants
Project duration: 7 months
We optimise your consumer goods procurement.
Satisfied customers
„In addition, the sustainability of the savings achieved was a priority, which we can also confirm from today's perspective.“
„As our expectations have been met to our fullest satisfaction and the results of our procurement project are highly convincing, we have decided to continue our collaboration with Kloepfel Consulting.“
„Prior to this, we had not expected that such savings could be achieved through your professional and methodical approach.“
„Despite the partly high complexity of procurement topics due to our product diversity and multiple locations, the first savings could already be implemented after a short time.“
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Our industry expertise
Automotive
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Why is external expertise in consumer goods purchasing important right now?
The increasing variety of products, frequent relaunches and stricter ESG guidelines tie up enormous capacities. External specialists bring cross-market expertise and additional capacity to quickly and sustainably realise return opportunities in areas such as commodity markets or indirect costs, for which there is often not enough time in day-to-day business.
In which material groups can the greatest savings be achieved?
Experience has shown that there is great potential in the areas of raw materials, packaging materials (such as films, corrugated cardboard or labels), logistics services, indirect costs and insurance management.
How does Kloepfel deal with the high complexity of the industry?
Thanks to years of industry experience and a methodical approach, even complex product ranges with many locations and variants are analysed in a structured manner. The aim is to simplify processes and ensure optimal conditions through strategic sourcing despite smaller batch sizes or frequent changes.
What role does sustainability play in optimisation?
Today, sustainability is an integral part of purchasing. Kloepfel helps to combine ecological requirements (e.g. CO2 footprint, sustainable packaging) with economic goals so that savings are sustainable in the long term and legal requirements are met.
How is the cooperation with Kloepfel Consulting remunerated?
Kloepfel Consulting works according to a success-based model. This means that the project is refinanced through the savings actually realised, which represents a minimum risk for companies with maximum earnings potential.