The following indicators point to significant savings potential:
Do an initial self-check!
- High purchasing costs in relation to sales
- Inadequate supplier performance (e.g. late deliveries, quality defects)
- Excessive inventory
- Limited supplier base (small number or dependence on suppliers)
- High costs for procurement activities (e.g. order processing, invoice processing)
Our potential analysis is the first step towards maximizing your profits!
Little effort. Great effect. All without risk.
The advantages of Kloepfel's potential analysis at a glance:
Evaluation of all results with an accuracy of over 80%.
Preparation of a comprehensive analysis in just 3 weeks.
Risk-free ordering with a unique 100% money-back guarantee.
Cross-industry experience with over 50 potential analyses per year.
Experience has shown that the effort for your team is no more than two to three man-days.
Our experienced purchasing experts identify significant and sustainable savings potential throughout the entire purchasing process.
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Your experts for purchasing optimization!
Purchasing advice at eye level - We see ourselves as temporary colleagues
As "doers in purchasing", our dedicated potential analysis team increases your return on sales and improves your savings potential. They are supported by over 300 KLOEPFEL purchasing experts. With tailor-made solutions, we optimize your purchasing processes and significantly reduce your costs - for long-term success with measurable savings.
Lina Terhardt
"Our expertise lies in the fact that our consultants actually come from the industries they work with. What's more, we don't see ourselves as external consultants, but as temporary colleagues and coaches."
Sandra Blanco Carrillo
"Our goal at the start of the project is not only to quickly generate potential savings or optimize purchasing in the short term, but also to ensure these successes in the long term."
Our potential analysis process at a glance
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- Joint signing of the service agreement (PA) and non-disclosure agreement (NDA)
- Detailed query of your purchasing data - either through our user-friendly data query templates via e-mail, transfer folder or alternatively as a direct data export from your ERP system
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- Consolidation of all data and comprehensive analysis by our team of purchasing experts
- Data completion through interviews, which we conduct in parallel with your purchasing department and the relevant specialist departments
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- Compilation and evaluation of all analysis and discussion results
- Presentation of the results and an individual and customized action plan with clear and implementable recommendations for concrete cost savings and profit maximization
Find out more here in the Kloepfel magazine
The KLOEPFEL Potential Analysis Training
More practice. More success. More value.
Do you want to uncover potential savings in your company yourself? KLOEPFEL Potential Analysis Training will get you fit. Are you interested in the practice-oriented 1-2-day training course with one of our purchasing experts?
From buyers for buyers - enquire now!
Awarded BEST CONSULTANT - 10th time in a row
"There is potential for savings in every company! In our training course, you will learn which methods you can use to identify this potential safely and effectively."
Our extensive industry knowledge is your advantage.
Naturally experienced in the industry.
Industry experience is not just an empty phrase for us: the success of our company is based on the fact that our consultants come from different industries, just like our clients.
In addition to essential hard skills such as expertise, industry experience and analytical skills, we place equal value on soft skills such as empathy and pragmatism.
We do not see ourselves as external consultants, but as temporary colleagues and coaches. This creates a basis of trust and respectful teamwork on an equal footing.
Our practice-oriented philosophy has proven its worth: We have now successfully realized over 1000 projects in a wide range of industries. And the number is constantly growing...
Our track record: 2,000 projects in a wide range of industries
- Automotive
- Special vehicle construction
- Construction supply industry
- Services
- Trade
- Furniture
- Mechanical and plant engineering
- Consumer goods
- Other chemical and pharmaceutical products
- Healthcare facilities
- IT and electronic equipment
- Municipal/public facilities
- Plastics and rubber processing
- Medical technology/products
- Metal products/processing
- New energies
Savings potential in a sector comparison
| Drawing parts 5% to 11% | Semi-finished products 2% to 5% | Plastic injection molding 4% to 10% |
| Merchandise 1% to 4% | CAPEX 3% to 8% | Freight & other logistics 7% to 15% |
| MRO 9% to 16% | Insurance policies 15% to 30% | Temporary work 6% to 18% |
| IT / TC 5% to 20% | Marketing/printing 7% to 25% | Energy 2% to 10% |
| Secondary packaging 10% to 16% | Facility Management 8% to 20% | Office supplies 15% to 40% |
Kloepfel Savings Bet
Cost savings for a good cause.
10,000 € stake
The purchasing consultancy KLOEPFEL is betting on its fee for uncovering savings in purchasing amounting to €10,000. If we lose, we donate the fee to a charity of your choice, if we win, you donate. Either way, a charity will win in the end.
The rules of the game
Specifically, we are betting that for companies with an annual turnover of:
- A - € 50 million: at least € 100,000 in savings
- B - € 100 million: at least € 250,000 in savings
- C - € 500 million: at least € 1 million in savings
in your direct/indirect purchasing.
"It's a nice bet and I hope I can inspire you to take part."
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Accept your bet now and do good!
Are you hitting it?
The bet is not tied to an order to optimize your direct and indirect purchasing. In the event of a collaboration, we work 100 percent on a success basis.
- You register and fill out the form
- We contact you and carry out the potential analysis (usually 3-4 weeks)
- If we find the minimum savings amount corresponding to your sales category, you support a good cause of your choice with the fee for our potential analysis in the amount of €10,000. If we do not find any corresponding savings, we will donate €10,000 to a charity of your choice.
- The charitable organization wins!
Questions and further information about Wette: rendite@kloepfel-consulting.com
Register here for the Savings bet and save money.
Trust in the enthusiasm of our customers.
Customer testimonials
"The decision to take on this project was also made very easy for us by Kloepfel Consulting's fair remuneration system, which is financed exclusively by the savings realized and thus the clear cost risk."
"Shirt-sleeved, pragmatic, team-oriented. In other words: not aloof consultants, but workers. In addition, every step of the project was transparent for us thanks to reporting and preliminary discussions, for example."
"It was also nice to learn from each other: Not only was Kloepfel able to provide us with new, enriching connections, but we were also able to provide contacts to expand our network. So it was participation in both directions."
Satisfied customers
Let's go in search of your return on investment together.
