Our services

Kloepfel Consulting increases your operational profitability through instant optimisation of procurement processes and the realisation of sustainable savings. We deliver not theoretical concepts, but measurable results directly in your profit and loss statement – with a focus on implementation, digitalisation and the resilience of your supply chains.

Holistic Purchasing Consulting for Your Success

In a volatile market environment, efficient procurement is the crucial lever for your competitiveness. Our experts will conduct in-depth analyses of your product groups, optimise supplier relationships, and digitalise your processes to unlock hidden potential. We will guide you from the initial analysis to the final implementation, transforming your procurement from a pure cost driver into a value-adding partner.

Key Facts

Significant cost reduction: average savings of 6% to 12% in direct and indirect procurement.
Focus on implementation: 100% hands-on approach – we stay on until the results are reflected in the figures.
Digital Transformation: Implementation and Optimisation of E-Procurement Solutions and AI-Powered Tools.
Risk Management: Strengthening Supply Chain Security and Meeting Regulatory Requirements (e.g. LkSG).

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Our services

KLOEPFEL by EPSA's service portfolio covers all relevant areas of procurement and supply chain. From cost optimisation to structural and process optimisation, personnel and logistics solutions, and outsourcing, we help you increase efficiency, streamline processes, and optimally position your team. Furthermore, we optimise product and production costs. In doing so, we always place particular emphasis on practical implementation and measurable results.

Cost optimisation

We sustainably reduce your purchasing costs through the analysis of processes and suppliers, identification of savings potential, and implementation of practical solutions.

Structural and Process Optimisation

We optimise your purchasing structures and processes in a practical and measurable way, to streamline operations, eliminate weak points, and position your organisation to be more transparent and future-proof.

Supply Chain & Procurement Structure

We optimise your supply chain holistically, increasing service and customer satisfaction, reducing costs and delays, and creating transparency and resilience throughout the entire supply chain.

Logistics optimisation

We offer holistic and sustainable logistics optimisation with tailor-made, best-in-class solutions, allowing you maximum flexibility without fixed personnel costs.

Product & Production Cost Optimisation

We offer holistic and modular manufacturing optimisation solutions that create cost transparency, reduce waste, and make your production processes more efficient.

Personnel services

We sustainably strengthen your procurement organisation with executive search, interim management, buyer training, and our Academy, and gain qualified specialists and executives for your company through our international network.

Cost optimisation

Reduce purchasing costs

Reduction of purchasing costs by 5%to 15%. Look for a purchasing expert who not only identifies potential but also achieves sustainable results together with your employees and suppliers.

Power supply check

An individual energy supply check ensures evaluation, transparency, and planning security – and shows when new contracts are sensible, which prices are realistic, and how your energy supply can be secured long-term.

Freight cost optimisation

We reduce your freight costs to 100% on a success basis. Tailored logistics and freight cost optimisation with consistent or increased quality for greater cost transparency.

Indirect purchasing

We show you the optimisation potential in indirect procurement at a glance, uncover hidden costs and convert them into savings potential.

IT Procurement

We optimise your IT procurement with bespoke purchasing strategies and achieve average savings of 10%in our customer projects.

Kloepfel Reprice

Our negotiation experts ward off price increases for C-parts and micro-suppliers – transparently, lightning-fast, and completely without risk.

Optimise logistics

We develop individual, best-in-class solutions for you and manage your entire logistics centrally, digitally, and in real-time. 100% legally compliant booking and customs clearance.

Marketing Procurement

We show you the optimisation potential in indirect procurement at a glance, uncover hidden costs and convert them into savings potential.

Potential analysis

Savings are guaranteed with our potential analysis. We achieve an accuracy rate of over 80% and offer a 100% money-back guarantee.

Technical Sourcing

Through tailored technical sourcing approaches, cost transparency is ensured, supplier risks are managed, and quality and efficiency in purchasing are increased.

Insurance Management

In insurance management, we independently review your insurance portfolio and the performance of your partners, assess them from an expert perspective, and take existing partnerships into account, irrespective of insurers, brokers, or intermediaries.

Game theory

Turn your purchasing into a value generator through targeted transformation. Our transformation approaches are specifically tailored to the needs of the mid-market.

Packaging purchase

We show you the optimisation potential in indirect procurement at a glance, uncover hidden costs and convert them into savings potential.

Strategic Procurement

Turn your purchasing into a value generator through targeted transformation. Our transformation approaches are specifically tailored to the needs of the mid-market.

Structure and process optimisation

Digitalisation in purchasing

Turn your purchasing into a value generator through targeted transformation. Our transformation approaches are specifically tailored to the needs of the mid-market.

Negotiations

With negotiation advice for the best conditions and results in procurement. We work 100% on a success basis and offer a 100% money-back guarantee.

Artificial intelligence

Through automation, increased efficiency, and well-informed decisions, every purchase becomes a strategic lever for business success.

Procurement Processes: Optimising Purchasing

Optimise your procurement with our 6-pillar approach. This anchors strategy, processes & more for future-proof and high-performing procurement.

E-Procurement

Our digital procurement tools automate routine tasks and create scope for strategic purchasing decisions. Gain more time for your procurement.

EKSO

The EKSO programme optimises your procurement structures and processes in a targeted way to ensure efficient and stable procurement services in the long term.

ESG – Environmental, Social, and Governance

We support you in building sustainable supply chains – practical, individual, and legally compliant. KLOEPFEL by EPSA accompanies companies on the path to sustainable procurement.

Global Sourcing

Leverage our expertise in organisational and process optimisation, global supplier selection and supply chain management to sustainably tap into your procurement markets.

Risk management

Risk management is key to optimising procurement in times of volatile commodity markets and economic uncertainties, identifying potential risks early on.

Refurbishment

We show you the optimisation potential in indirect procurement at a glance, uncover hidden costs and convert them into savings potential.

Contract management

More transparency, lower costs and fewer risks through effective contract management. We create uniform repositories, automated reminders and transparent processes for your contract management.

Supply chain and procurement structure

SCM Optimisation

We optimise your supply chain holistically, increasing service and customer satisfaction, reducing costs and delays, and creating transparency and resilience throughout the entire supply chain.

Logistics, Product & Production Cost Optimisation

Logistics optimisation

Logistics Optimisation: Sustainably Reduce Logistics Costs Through targeted logistics optimisation, companies can reduce their operating costs by up to 20 %, increase delivery reliability, and create full transparency in the supply chain. Kloepfel Consulting

Product and production cost optimisation

Reducing product and manufacturing costs By systematically optimising their product and production costs, companies achieve a sustainable reduction in manufacturing costs of 10 to 20 per cent on average. Kloepfel Consulting identifies hidden cost drivers

Personnel services

Purchaser Academy

Our Purchasing Academy offers tailor-made training programmes to specifically advance purchasing departments, from operational buyers to strategic purchasing management.

Buyer training

Our training offers a perfect balance of theory and practical application, creating an open, motivating learning environment with a dash of humour.

Outsourcing

Maximise your efficiency in daily business and resolve bottlenecks. We are the specialists for Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) of operational and strategic purchasing processes.

Interim Management

We will quickly and easily provide you with suitable interim experts for your procurement.

Executive Search

We are specialists in the precise staffing of key positions in purchasing, logistics, and supply chain management.

FAQ: Important Questions about Shopping Advice

What exactly does a procurement consulting service at Kloepfel Consulting entail?

Our consulting covers the entire spectrum of procurement: from indirect material cost optimisation and global sourcing, to process digitisation, interim management, and sustainable transformation (ESG).

How quickly can initial savings be realised?

Through our pragmatic approach, we often identify quick wins within the first 4 to 8 weeks that achieve immediate liquidity effects.

Does Kloepfel Consulting work on a success-fee basis?

Yes, we offer flexible fee models that are oriented towards the actual savings achieved. This guarantees you minimal risk and maximum motivation on our part.

What industries is the consultancy suitable for?

We have expertise in almost all industries, with a focus on manufacturing, mechanical engineering, automotive, retail, and the service sector.

Do you also provide support for the digitalisation of purchasing?

Absolutely. We assist in selecting and implementing the appropriate tools (e-sourcing, P2P) and ensure your employees can confidently master the new processes.