Procurement & Supply Chain Optimization for the Machinery and Engineered Products
Strongly fluctuating order volumes, decreasing internal value creation depth, increasing competitive pressure and more complex interlocking of value creation structures put pressure on machine and plant manufacturers. With these demands, the importance of procurement has also grown steadily in recent years.
Volatile initial situation and increasing competitive pressure
Machine and plant manufacturers are currently facing a number of challenges that are crucial for their profitability. Currently, they have to cope above all with strongly fluctuating order volumes; batch sizes are also becoming smaller and the processes are thus becoming considerably more complex. This complexity is further increased by the decreasing internal vertical range of manufacture and a more complex interlocking of the value-added structures.
Competition and cost pressures have also risen continuously in recent years, not least due to strong competition from companies in Asian countries, which now act as strong rivals in the field of innovation. Added to this are rising raw material prices and tight markets on the supplier side.
Results of the Raw Materials Study 2023 in cooperation with Handelsblatt
Around 100 corporate and procurement decision-makers shared their opinions and current approaches to raw materials management in procurement with us this year.
Develop your procurement into a value driver
Companies from the mechanical and plant engineering sector live above all from their technical innovations and solutions. Therefore, engineering naturally has a high priority in the company. This is especially true for traditional, medium-sized companies. An efficient procurement organisation can also make a significant contribution to the company’s success and increase its overall resilience.
With our comprehensive industry expertise, we support your procurement to position itself as a value driver. In our projects, we work cross-functionally and use many technical approaches in addition to commercial levers for optimization. In addition, we support you in the area of Indirect Spend, an area that experience shows is often neglected.
Raw materials management in procurement
The long-term success of raw material procurement is not only dependent on the performance of your procurement department. It is subject to a large number of external influencing factors, the risks of which can only be countered through targeted measures.
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