Special Vehicle Construction Consultation
Procurement growth engine
Analogous to car manufacturers, the demands have risen significantly with smaller capacities and batch sizes. Specific customer solutions often conflict with available standard solutions. This necessitates ongoing coordination between engineering, sales, and production. The company that best manages the screws of effectiveness, flexibility, cost, and deadlines is most likely to master the competition. Many of the main components are from large suppliers (electrics, hydraulics, basic chassis). Our special vehicle team, during a Kloepfel project, unearths undiscovered profit potential with you by, among other things, helping to use materials more efficiently, standardising products even in small series, finding innovative suppliers, for example for lightweight construction, and conducting workshops with existing suppliers to identify jointly achievable savings potentials.
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Example Project Outcome (anonymised)
Processed material groups, among others.
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: €36.4 million
Processed volume: €25.2 million
Project Team: 2 Consultants
Project duration: 12 months
EFFICIENCY FOR SPECIAL VEHICLES
Satisfied customers
„Not only the total sum of directly achieved savings, but also the further potential that we can realise through our purchasing in the near future, are remarkable.“
“All the sessions were well prepared, including the documentation.”
„Over the entire project duration, they achieved a minimisation of procurement costs of around €2.5 million.“
„Our combined annual savings of almost €1.1 million speak for themselves. Our initial scepticism, stemming from considerable negative experiences with consulting firms in the past, was quickly dispelled by measurable results.“
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Convincing
References
WAS
„The result achieved of over €1 million after just eleven months surprised us positively and convinced us of your performance.“ – Daniel Gotthardt (Management). Wietmarscher Ambulanz und Sonderfahrzeug GmbH (WAS), with around 600 employees, is Europe's leading provider of ambulance and special-purpose vehicles. Since its founding in 1987, the company has consistently expanded its market position. WAS now has international subsidiaries. As a certified conversion partner for Europe's leading car manufacturers, WAS possesses extensive brand expertise and can therefore provide a wide range of base vehicles and conversion options.
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 bespoke 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 variety of industries and application areas.
Grimme
„Throughout the entire project duration, they achieved a minimisation of procurement costs of approximately €2.5 million.“ – Klemens Kalverkamp (Management). Founded in 1861, Grimme Landmaschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG is a world-leading manufacturer of potato technology based in Damme (Lower Saxony). Since 2003, the company has also produced machinery for sugar beet harvesting and vegetable cultivation and employs over 1,450 people worldwide.
CLAAS
The European market leader in combine harvesters and global market leader in self-propelled forage harvesters also produces, amongst other things, tractors, grassland harvesting machinery, agricultural balers and innovative agricultural information technologies. The family company, founded in 1913, has sites in Europe as well as branches in America and Asia. The company's focus is on efficiency and responsibility for future generations.
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 an extensive service and spare parts network, the company ensures reliable and efficient logistics worldwide. Whether refrigerated vehicles, flatbed or box semi-trailers – Schmitz Cargobull stands for quality, durability, and partnership in the transport industry.
Metz
Metz Aerials GmbH & Co. KG is the leading company in the field of aerial rescue and sees itself as a centre of competence for aerial rescue appliances. Metz is part of the Rosenbauer Group, the world's leading manufacturer of fire service vehicles. Around 240 employees produce turntable ladders and aerial rescue platforms for fire services around the globe at the Karlsruhe site. The turntable ladders from the company, founded in 1998, are among the most reliable operational vehicles today. For decades, turntable ladder technology from Karlsruhe has been saving the lives of many thousands of people.
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.
Mulag
„Not only the total sum of directly implemented savings, but also the further potentials that we can implement through our purchasing in the near future, are remarkable.“ – P. Esser (Management). 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. Furthermore, MULAG sees itself as a leading manufacturer of mowers with the most extensive product range for DaimlerChrysler Unimog and other system carriers.