Today, a company's procurement department has to deal with far more than just procurement tasks. Process optimization in purchasing is elementary; in this way buyers can make a significant contribution to increasing the value of the company.
When objectives, structures and processes are perfectly aligned, purchasing or the purchasing process is a key factor in improving products or services while reducing costs and risks.
In order for your procurement department to develop into a high-performance team, professional support for process optimization in purchasing as part of the purchasing transformation process is an essential factor. We help you enrich your business strategies with a wide range of procurement transformation measures. Step by step, we guide you towards measurable, significant performance improvements in your purchasing function.
Our consultants identify and analyze the problems of your entire purchasing structure, convey and deepen know-how and initiate sustainable process and result improvements in strategic purchasing together with you and implement professionalizations in vendor management and commodity group management on the basis of proven models and measures.
We are happy to explain how we can optimize the purchasing processes in your company in a personal meeting.
Procurement is characterized by efficient procurement processes, material group management and supplier management. But that is no longer enough. The traditional tasks are supplemented and overlaid by new core topics. A modern purchasing organization must deal with the further development of strategy and competencies as well as with the management of innovation, sustainability and social responsibility.
Modern purchasing works in close relationship with its internal customers and external partners. Suppliers are involved in innovation efforts at an early stage. Procurement thus forces innovations and pushes them forward together with the stakeholders in the company.
Sustainability is increasingly on top of companies' agendas. Procurement bears a special responsibility here. Consequently, the company's own supply chain must be reviewed and often redesigned.
As more and more countries enact supply chain due diligence laws, it is also important to mitigate risks that may arise, for example, from dependence on individual suppliers.
Procurement is increasingly faced with the task of analyzing new markets and developing them from a purchasing perspective.
The pandemic has clearly shown us how vulnerable our supply chains can be. The basis for this is often a lack of transparency along a company's entire supply chain, which can then lead to supply risks and high follow-up costs. Intelligent risk information systems and the networking of information sources can reduce risks to a manageable minimum.
Modern procurement must therefore be able to fulfill its role as a partner for innovation and sustainability in the future as well. In this context, it is of fundamental importance to use resources as efficiently as possible so that procurement managers are relieved of routine tasks that can be completed much more efficiently using digital tools or their support.
In order to be able to fulfill their role as innovation and sustainability partners in the future, procurement managers must be relieved of routine tasks. Digital assistants and bots can, for example, take over the ordering of standard requirements or even conduct simple negotiations. Here, too, it is important that not only tools are introduced, but also that the right mindset is brought about in order to be able to successfully follow the path of digitization.
How can purchasing be transformed by intelligent digitization? We would be happy to show you how.
Transformation can only work if your team understands the purpose and, above all, is not left alone. Transformation means change. That's why this change starts in the minds of those who are supposed to make it happen.
We help you to transparently show your team the way from A to B and to analyze the necessary competencies. Only in this way can we involve your employees in new processes and structures in such a way that they understand the new path as an opportunity.
We identify and train the required competencies. Our academy supports your team with customized training so that you can take advantage of these opportunities and successfully shape change.
Fight inflation
Promote innovation
Drive digitization
Ensuring sustainability
Increase efficiency
Only through transparency is it possible to make data-based decisions and identify potential.
Develop and foster innovation with existing and new suppliers and start-ups.
Identification and assessment of risks and opportunities throughout the supply chain
Depending on the complexity of the market and the impact on the business result, commodity group-specific measures must be applied.
The introduction of digital solutions is the basis for a transparent and modern purchasing organization.
Identification of potentials along the entire supply chain process and the related value chain.
Structurally capture trends in collaboration with suppliers, customers and the extended network.
Verstehen der Kundenbedürfnisse und Sicherstellung abgestimmter Umsetzung innovativer „Best-in-Class“-Lösungen.
Adding value and improving economic performance by implementing optimization levers along the supply chain (outsourcing, insourcing, SCM shortening)
With D&P you achieve a noticeable change in your purchasing organization. We reduce your costs and increase your performance.
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