Upgrade your purchase

Fast-growing e-commerce companies in particular often face challenges in their purchasing processes. Purchasing is often only seen as a supporting process and not as a value-adding part of the company. As a result, the development of purchasing falls by the wayside compared to the company as a whole. And over time, the day-to-day business becomes more and more extensive and complex, leaving no time for further development.

Together with your team, we can bring your purchasing department up to date:

  • Optimize processes – make purchasing a value-adding part of your company

  • Reduce effort – relieve your employees of repetitive tasks and create space for further development

  • Control liquidity, inventories and earnings – use purchasing to optimize your company’s key figures.

Data science for your purchasing

The use of data science is crucial to take your purchasing strategy to the next level.

We support you in making data-based decisions that increase your efficiency and optimize your day-to-day business.

  • Algorithm development we work closely with you to develop specific algorithms tailored to your individual requirements. Whether simple models or complex machine learning solutions – we will find the right approach for you

  • Modeling and analysis together we create models that turn your data into valuable insights. These help you to identify trends, minimize risks and better manage your purchasing decisions

  • Implementation and integration – we support you in the seamless integration of the developed solutions into your existing systems and processes so that you can benefit from the advantages immediately

Development of ordering algorithms

Together with your team, we further develop your order logic with low/no code solutions to reduce the effort of repetitive tasks and increase the quality of the order.

What improvements they can expect:

  • Improved order cycles – and a correspondingly positive impact on your working capital

  • Margin-optimized order proposals – which are optimized according to opportunity costs

  • Determination of parameters – e.g. to set certain storage ranges or to optimize for cash conversion

  • Seasonality Our algorithms know that no more Christmas trees should be ordered on December 20 – even if the sales figures for the last few days were high.

With our expertise, you can use the full potential of your data to optimize your purchasing strategy in a targeted and efficient manner.

Better negotiation results

Are you sure that your company achieves the best negotiation results? Can your employees negotiate effectively? Negotiation skills are a crucial soft skill that can be learned. We coach your purchasing department and work with you to develop a standardized negotiation process that is guaranteed to deliver better results for you and your company.

Get the best out of your negotiations.
Our coaching for your purchasing department includes

People & Relationships:

  • Building and maintaining relationships, the importance of trust.
  • Universal business understanding and the creation of win-win situations.
  • Identification of interests and use of objective criteria.
  • Conflict resolution and various negotiation techniques.

Preparation, data and presentation:

  • Definition of clear and achievable negotiation objectives.
  • Effective research techniques for information about negotiating partners.
  • Preparation of a plan and professional negotiation presentations.
“Live Fire” (help with practical implementation):

  • Overcoming unexpected challenges in negotiations.
  • Team debriefings and long-term methodology optimization
  • Development of a company-specific negotiation strategy and continuous improvement of negotiation skills.

Processes, processes, processes…

Processes are the key to success – or the beginning of the end…

How well do your e-commerce company’s purchasing processes really work? Together with your team, we analyze your purchase-to-pay and source-to-contract processes and identify specific opportunities for improvement.

  • Purchase planning
  • Supplier selection

  • Framework agreements

  • Calculation of requirements
  • Order placement
  • Incoming goods

  • Audit

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