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Would you like to reduce your purchasing costs, optimize purchasing processes and structures or do you have a need for personnel in purchasing?
Then KLOEPFEL by EPSA - deutschland, the award-winning purchasing consultancy, is the right place for you. We support you in optimizing purchasing costs, structures and processes and strengthening your supply chains in the long term. In addition, we help you recruit staff for central purchasing functions and ensure that your team is optimally positioned in terms of expertise and organization. Our approach is pragmatic, partnership-based and success-oriented. The results are directly reflected in your company's success.
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We are consulting experts in purchasing, supply chain and logistics
Purchasing optimization 100% on a success basis
Together with its parent company EPSA Group, KLOEPFEL by EPSA is the largest consulting group specializing in procurement and supply chain management in the pan-European region with over 5,000 experts, 16,000 clients in 40 countries and a turnover of 600 million euros. KLOEPFEL by EPSA - Germany, with 110 employees and headquarters in Düsseldorf, has already successfully implemented over 2,000 projects.
5.000
Experts
40
Countries
16.000
Clients
600 million
Turnover
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Three key areas of expertise that drive your success forward
Our services
Structure & process optimization
With targeted structure and process optimization, we make your processes more efficient and better coordinated. In this way, we reduce costs, avoid frictional losses and sustainably increase your company's productivity.
Cost optimization
With effective cost optimization, we identify and reduce your expenditure in a targeted manner. In this way, we create financial leeway, increase your competitiveness and ensure your company's long-term success.
Personnel benefits
In the area of personnel services, we find the right talent for your company - on an interim, long-term or international basis. With targeted selection and effective recruiting, we strengthen your team in the long term and help you achieve your goals.
Services from our strong EPSA partners
We provide you with targeted support in the areas of structure and process optimization, cost optimization and recruitment. With our holistic approach, we create sustainable results and accompany you from the initial concept through to concrete implementation - individually tailored to your requirements.
Funding advice
EPSA began as a specialist for the optimization of operational purchasing processes and has developed into a leading consulting company in Europe in recent years.
EPSA has been operating successfully on the German market since 2020 and specializes in subsidy consulting, financing and energy.
360° funding advice:
- Research allowance
- R&D grants
- Investment promotion
Accelerating your environmental transformation:
- EPSA Energy: Optimizing your energy challenges
Strengthening your operational expertise:
- Optimization of your purchasing processes
Sustainability consulting
ekodev, our sister company for sustainability consulting, supports you in defining and implementing your CSR and climate strategy.
- Recording and evaluation of environmental impact
- Strategic advice & operational implementation
- Change management
- Development of joint goals, measures and commitments in the area of CSR
In order to reduce the environmental impact of your company and make a positive contribution to the social and ecological challenges of our time, ekodev supports you in four complementary areas:
- CSR
- Climate
- Mobility
- Biodiversity
Satisfied customers are our strongest proof
Satisfied customers
KLOEPFEL by EPSA - germany
Our consulting experts in Germany
Our head office is located in beautiful Düsseldorf, a lively city with an international flair. From here, we manage our consulting services and support customers throughout Germany and beyond. Feel free to contact us if you would like support in optimizing your purchasing.
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Cost structure analyses and supplier workshops
Many buyers often lack knowledge of their suppliers' cost structure. A transparent supplier cost structure is the best defense against price increase demands. By precisely analyzing price increase requests and purchase prices, a basis for successful negotiations and improved supplier processes can be created. This requires facts and figures, which no supplier voluntarily discloses. Kloepfel Consulting solves this problem with the five-time award-winning Cost Control software. This software includes all available production modules and is specially tailored to the needs of a manufacturing company. The Cost Control Tool is therefore a valuable system for the exact and holistic analysis of any manufacturing costs.
Further costs can be uncovered through so-called supplier workshops. The workshop is conducted with the close involvement of suppliers to identify and realize cost potential in order to encourage renegotiations.
"Do you want to strategically align your purchasing processes at an early stage or do you have other questions about KLOEPFEL Consulting?"
Global procurement
The list of good reasons to procure globally is long: low prices, malleable suppliers and the development of new markets. Standard and spare parts in particular can be produced abroad at low cost and high quality. Buyers, who are faced with the daily challenge of procuring the best goods at the best prices, are therefore increasingly turning to global sourcing. For example, more than half of German companies buy in China.
However, the quality requirements of German-speaking SMEs often stand in the way of some business. Constant risk management, prevention of know-how outflow, quality management and stringent supplier development are therefore important. Annoyances can also be avoided through a deeper understanding of culture. If this is mastered, it is possible to order purchased parts such as castings or forgings, as well as hand-made motors, at good conditions.
Formation of purchasing groups
Price advantages and discounts can be secured through joint purchasing. The information networking of companies through merchandise management systems and the exchange of experience serves as an early warning system to reduce decision-making risks. Purchasing groups can be used to economize central company areas such as purchasing, marketing, human resources, financing and the legal department.
Delivery time optimization
Inventory optimization
An ABC/XYZ analysis is helpful in analyzing the extent of excessive stock levels. If this is supplemented by the inventory ranges and the distribution of inventory values, the complexity of the C-parts is reduced and targeted know-how is built up in the planning department, buyers can breathe a sigh of relief. In most cases, the stockpiles can be quickly exposed.
Long-term and sustainable inventory optimization requires process optimization along the entire value chain. The topics of the specialist departments are then e.g:
- Product life cycle,
- Inventory responsibility,
- Target ranges,
- C-parts management,
- Litigation costs,
- Kanban,
- Framework agreements,
- Mechanisms for inlet and outlet control,
- Standardization in construction,
- Optimal product mix, taking into account production capacities,
- Set-up costs and
- internal logistics.
When all departments are integrated into this process and have internalized their contribution to success, this paves the way for sustainable optimization of stock levels.