Special vehicle construction consulting

Growth engine purchasing
As with car manufacturers, requirements have increased significantly with lower capacities and quantities. Specific customer solutions often conflict with available standard solutions. This makes permanent coordination between technology, sales and production necessary. In turn, the company that is most likely to master the competition is the one that has the most control over the screws in terms of effectiveness, flexibility, costs and deadlines. Many of the main components are from major suppliers (electrics, hydraulics, basic chassis). During a Kloepfel project, our special vehicle team works with you to uncover undiscovered treasures in terms of returns by helping you to use materials more efficiently, standardize products even in small series, find innovative suppliers for lightweight construction, for example, and hold workshops with existing suppliers to identify potential savings that can be achieved together.
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Example of a project result (anonymized)
Processed material groups including
Hydraulic cylinders, hydraulic blocks, GRP components, machining, sensors, energy chains, C-parts, extruded profiles, welded assemblies, sheet metal processing, electrical components, lighting, cables
Example project scorecard
Project volume: EUR 36.4 million
Volume processed: EUR 25.2 million
Project team: 2 consultants
Project duration: 12 months

Satisfied customers
"Not only the total amount of directly implemented savings, but also the further potential that can be realized by our purchasing department in the near future are remarkable."
"All the sessions were well prepared including documentation."

"Over the entire duration of the project, they achieved a minimization of procurement costs of around €2.5 million."

"Our joint result of almost €1.1 million in savings per year speaks for itself. Our initial skepticism due to considerable negative experiences with consulting firms in the past was quickly dispelled by measurable results."
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Convincing
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WHAT
"The result of over € 1 million after just eleven months surprised us positively and convinced us of your efficiency." - Daniel Gotthardt (Managing Director). Wietmarscher Ambulanz und Sonderfahrzeug GmbH (WAS) is Europe's leading provider of ambulance and security vehicles with around 600 employees. Since its foundation in 1987, the company has consistently expanded its market position. WAS now has international subsidiaries. As a certified conversion partner of Europe's leading car manufacturers, WAS has extensive brand expertise and can therefore provide a wide range of basic vehicles and conversion variants.

WHAT
Grim
"Over the entire duration of the project, they achieved a minimization of procurement costs of around € 2.5 million." - Klemens Kalverkamp (Managing Director). Founded in 1861, Grimme Landmaschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG is a world market-leading manufacturer of potato technology based in Damme (Lower Saxony). Since 2003, the company has also been manufacturing machines for sugar beet harvesting and vegetable cultivation and employs over 1,450 people worldwide.

Grim
Doll
Doll is synonymous with quality in vehicle construction. For over 80 years, the Black Forest-based company has been developing special vehicles that embody strength, precision and passion.

Doll
Metz
Metz Aerials GmbH & Co. KG is the leading company in the field of aerial rescue and sees itself as a competence center for aerial rescue equipment. Metz is part of the Rosenbauer Group, the world's leading manufacturer of fire fighting vehicles. Around 240 employees at the Karlsruhe site produce turntable ladders and aerial rescue platforms for fire departments around the world. Founded in 1998, the company's turntable ladders are among the most reliable emergency vehicles today. For decades, turntable ladder technology from Karlsruhe has saved the lives of many thousands of people.

Metz
Schmitz Cargobull
Schmitz Cargobull is Europe's leading manufacturer of semi-trailers, trailers and bodies. With innovative transport solutions, state-of-the-art technology and a dense service and spare parts network, the company ensures reliable and efficient logistics worldwide. Whether refrigerated vehicles, flatbed trailers or box trailers - Schmitz Cargobull stands for quality, durability and partnership in the transport industry.

Schmitz Cargobull
Kroll
For many years, Kroll Sonderfahrzeugbau has stood for expertise, quality and innovation in the construction of individual special vehicles. Whether emergency vehicles, commercial vehicles or customized special solutions - the company develops and manufactures vehicles that are precisely tailored to the requirements of its customers. With state-of-the-art technology, precise craftsmanship and many years of experience, Kroll creates reliable solutions for a wide range of industries and applications.

Kroll
Mulag
"Not only the total amount of directly realized savings, but also the further potentials that can be realized by our purchasing department in the near future are remarkable." - P. Esser (Management Board). MULAG is one of the leading German manufacturers of vehicles for the airport apron with an extensive product range of airport tractors, conveyor belt vehicles, container transporters and special vehicles. In addition, MULAG sees itself as a leading manufacturer of mowing equipment with the most comprehensive product range for DaimlerChrysler Unimog and other system carriers.

Mulag
CLAAS
The European market leader in combine harvesters and world market leader in self-propelled forage harvesters also produces tractors, grassland harvesting machines, agricultural balers and innovative agricultural information technologies. Founded in 1913, the family-owned company has locations in Europe as well as branches in America and Asia. The company's focus is on efficiency and responsibility for future generations.
