Press release
Kerkhoff Consulting is Top Consultant 2021, Hidden Champion 2020/21 and Best Consultant 2021
for Purchasing and Supply Chain Management
Düsseldorf, June 15, 2021
The coveted triple for Kerkhoff Consulting: The Düsseldorf-based management consultants were able to secure no less than three recognized seals of quality in 2021. With the awards "Top Consultant", "Hidden Champion" and "Best Consultant" for Purchasing and Supply Chain Management, Kerkhoff Consulting already received three coveted awards this year and thus undoubtedly belongs "to the best medium-sized consultants in Germany", as it says in the just published award statement as "Top Consultant" 2021. For Kerkhoff Consulting, the latest award is already the 26th title within twelve years. The special thing about all consultant competitions: They are based on customer evaluations, thus reflecting the blunt opinion of real clients.
"In the roughly 22 years that we have been independently and successfully active in the consulting market, we have scrutinized customer benefits from the very beginning - directly and anonymously through our own customer surveys," recalls founder Gerd Kerkhoff. "Because consulting quality is defined exclusively by customer benefit and the added value that a consultant provides to his customers."
This is precisely the idea behind the aforementioned consultant competitions, which are communicated by strong media partners such as Manager Magazin, Capital, Wirtschaftswoche and Brand eins. Although all of them are based on customer evaluations that are collected with scientific support, the evaluation criteria differ. While a specific customer project is the deciding factor for 'Best of Consulting', customer references count for 'Top Consultant'. In the case of the 'Hidden Champion', a demanding catalog of criteria forms a high hurdle for admission to the shortlist, and in the case of 'Best Consultant', among other things, the judgements of competitors are decisive. In this context, Kerkhoff Consulting was the only one among 32 award-winning consulting firms to receive the top marks from clients and competitors.
Dr. Thorsten Schmidt, managing partner of Kerkhoff Consulting: "This is unique in the truest sense of the word. Thanks go to our clients who have placed their trust in us, to our employees who always keep the Kerkhoff values in mind and, in this special case, to our competitors as well."
Schmidt announces that Kerkhoff Consulting will continue to subordinate everything to customer added value. This is also what the credo to the customers "Improving your results is our passion" stands for.
About the Top Consultant comparison
The decisive factor for being awarded the TOP CONSULTANT seal of quality is a customer-oriented, SME-oriented consulting service. The field of participants in the competition, which has been organized by compamedia since 2010, consists largely of management, IT and HR consultants. These companies face the scrutiny of the competition's scientific management: Prof. Dr. Dietmar Fink, Professor of Management Consulting at Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, and Bianka Knoblach. Both head the Scientific Society for Management and Consulting (WGMB) in Bonn. The mentor of TOP CONSULTANT is former German President Christian Wulff. The media partner is Manager Magazin.
About Kerkhoff Consulting:
Kerkhoff Consulting is Germany's leading consultancy for purchasing and supply chain management. For more than 22 years, we have been inspiring our medium-sized clients with individual solutions which we implement together. As the experts in purchasing, we sustainably increase our clients' results by optimizing along the value chain. Kerkhoff stands for preparing the employees and processes of our customers for the requirements of tomorrow and accompanying them on this path.
Excellent consulting services:
9 x Top Consultant (Manager Magazin)
8 x Beste Berater (Brand eins)
5 x Hidden Champion (Capital)
4 x Best of Consulting (Wirtschaftswoche)
Press contact:
Kerkhoff Group GmbH
Sascha Koch
Tel.: +49 162 4480 132
