We make your purchasing successful!
We consult your procurement department and help you prepare for the purchasing of the future!
Depending on the industry and country, procurement is responsible for between 50% and 80% of a company’s value creation, making it the largest cost block and therefore has the greatest leverage for a company’s success.
Here is a selection of our range of services:
Customized IT solutions for purchasing
For procurement organizations, the introduction of a new purchasing solution is not only a strategic necessity, but also a costly and technical challenge. Based on our experience from 20+ years of purchasing systems (also known as eProcurement and eSourcing), the biggest task is to make the right decision for the optimal system. In addition to the actual product selection, the questions of cost/benefit comparison, consideration of future prospects/sustainability, structure of the IT architecture and user-friendly usability also need to be answered positively.
Deutsche Business Consulting supports this process with a customer-specific preliminary study in order to make the right decision. The result is an analysis and evaluation of the current market for the required tool according to the customer’s ideas and specifications. It also contains a neutral and objective recommendation for the technically most sensible system.
In the wake of Industry/Purchasing 4.0 and a rapid digital transformation, traditional purchasing is evolving from a pure procurement department to a central network organization. The basic core functions, such as processes, eProcurement, sourcing, supplier, product group and risk management, need to be further developed with the right organization. A tailor-made purchasing strategy defines in detail which objectives and tasks are to be fulfilled for the realization and implementation of these topics within the company in consultation with the company management.
Nowadays, companies are constantly exposed to global change processes. Digital transformations and rapid developments in the IT sector are presenting companies with significantly changing challenges in ever shorter cycles. The entire organization needs to be highly flexible and adaptable in order to meet these challenges. Purchasing is evolving from a pure procurer to a value creator and is also assuming responsibility for this. With specific targets, lean processes and agile structures, it makes a significant contribution to the company’s success.
Transparent and efficient purchasing processes are the prerequisite for cost-optimized purchasing. Our expertise in process analysis and process design is based on many successful projects. This will equip your company for future challenges.
When major customers implement new procurement systems, their suppliers have the opportunity to use this IT infrastructure to their advantage.
Not only orders from one customer, but also orders from all other customers can be processed in an optimized way with the SAP Business Network (formerly SAP Ariba Network). Overall, the SAP Business Network helps to switch to more efficient sales processes. However, setting up and familiarizing suppliers with new systems costs them valuable time.
We help suppliers in connection with an implementation project, as well as individually with the connection to new procurement systems and support end users with the familiarization process. Thanks to numerous SAP Ariba projects, we have a great deal of experience in implementing a rapid connection and sustainable process optimization.
