- Improved service and higher customer satisfaction through efficient supply chains
- Reduced costs, fewer delays, and lower revenue losses
- Efficient management of supply and demand and optimized inventory levels.
- Agile production and logistics processes, taking into account regulatory requirements and customs advantages
- Strengthened liquidity, optimized cash conversion cycle, and greater resilience through targeted end-to-end transformation
- Greater transparency and better process integration along the entire supply chain
Contact us today to work together to make your supply chain future-proof, efficient, and resilient.
Why our supply chain consulting is so compelling
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Our supply chain expertise enables us to provide comprehensive end-to-end solutions, from customer inquiries to final delivery. We support our customers across the entire value chain, thereby laying the foundation for sustainable transformation. This allows us to solve individual challenges along the supply chain and ensure efficient, flexible, and future-proof processes.
We don't just talk, we deliver. Our focus is on measurable results and concrete implementation. With clear goal orientation and pragmatic action, we create real added value for our customers and ensure that strategies translate into tangible results. These results are also measurable in the organization's key performance indicators.
With EPSA, we operate across locations and cultures. Our international presence and intercultural competence enable us to manage projects efficiently across multiple countries and teams. In this way, we combine global reach with local understanding for smooth collaboration and sustainable success. We also share our experiences and best practices from numerous projects, enabling us to successfully implement innovative approaches worldwide.
Our experience shows that we can typically reduce inventory levels by between 5 and 20% by redesigning value streams and specifically adjusting planning parameters. With the same or improved delivery capability, capital commitment is optimized and agility is increased along the entire supply chain.
We consistently align supply chain organizations with customer benefits. For example, we improve processes and governance in demand and capacity planning to create transparency, increase planning reliability, optimize resource utilization, and thus deliver faster and more reliably. We also manage and implement efficiency programs so that the improvements achieved are noticeable and have a lasting effect for the customer.
As an experienced partner in purchasing and SCM matters, we have extensive project experience in highly technical and complex environments. This combination of technical understanding, process expertise, and project experience in a wide range of industries enables us to analyze complex challenges precisely and implement sustainable solutions.
Increase your revenue and company value through holistic supply chain optimization
Our end-to-end supply chain offering
- Strategy & network design: We optimize strategy, network, and transport holistically to reduce costs and increase performance sustainably.
- Order to Delivery & Inventory Control: With S&OP, capacity planning, optimization of control processes, and inventory management, we increase delivery capability and efficiency while reducing costs.
- Manufacturing & Production: With production strategy, lean manufacturing, CIP, and maintenance/excellence, we sustainably increase efficiency, quality, and plant availability.
- Logistics Management: Through customs and compliance, a reliable master database, and the optimization of inbound, storage, outbound, last mile, milk run, and reverse logistics, we create transparent, efficient, and cost-effective logistics processes.
- Transformation: By analyzing the maturity level of the organization and specifically redesigning its structure and processes, we increase efficiency, agility, and transparency while reducing complexity.
- Resource management: With interim management and secondment, we provide experienced specialists at short notice to drive projects forward efficiently and secure expertise.
- Digitalization & AI: With process design, data management, AI solutions, and smart manufacturing, we digitalize and automate processes, increasing transparency, efficiency, and responsiveness.
efficient, effective, and future-proof solution.
We deliver fast, sustainable results with real added value for sales growth, cash optimization, cost improvement, and customer satisfaction—supported by digital solutions and sustainable resource use.
Supply chain optimization in practice
ArcelorMittal
Our client, ArcelorMittal, a global steel industry group, was struggling with unclear task allocation, a lack of prioritization, and inconsistent processes in its maintenance department. In addition, there was no structured CIP basis for continuous improvement, which meant that efficiency potential remained untapped and the productivity of the maintenance team was limited.
The goal was to significantly increase the productivity of the maintenance team, establish a uniform and transparent maintenance process, and provide methods for all trades.
With our support, productivity was increased by 34%, the standardized method was successfully implemented for all trades, and plant utilization was significantly improved.
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Our client, a leading non-food discounter, faced significant challenges in its supply chain. Stock shortages and storage bottlenecks repeatedly led to inefficient material flows and delayed deliveries to stores. In addition, there was no clear and consistent forecasting strategy to accurately plan demand and optimally control the flow of goods.
The aim of the project was to develop a holistic forecasting strategy for the sustainable reduction of stock bottlenecks. At the same time, the goal was to significantly improve delivery capabilities and optimize inventories along the entire value chain.
As part of our collaboration, transparency was created across the forecasting chain, a strategy for reducing stockouts was developed, and a plan for optimizing the supply chain was implemented.
Your supply chain consultants for sustainable optimization
KLOEPFEL by EPSA – consulting, founded in 2007, is a specialized subsidiary of the EPSA Group, a leading European consulting firm with over 16,000 clients, 5,000 employees, and annual revenues exceeding €600 million.
Our global team brings extensive experience from over 2,000 projects. This international presence enables us to directly address multicultural and multi-location challenges, leverage best practices worldwide, and support our clients with local knowledge and global expertise.
KLOEPFEL increases the performance of procurement and supply chains, optimizes material flows and processes, and thus improves liquidity and profitability. Our consultants deliver practical, tailor-made solutions – well-founded and industry-specific.
We work across all sectors.
Let's work together to optimize your supply chain efficiently, quickly, and sustainably.