"I am happy to recommend working with the Kerkhoff Consulting team. We can look back on successful project work across several sub-projects. Greater process efficiency and savings speak for themselves. The joint project team has achieved great successes. Questioning your own processes with external expertise is always important in order to remain successful yourself."

Sven Hartwich, Chief Financial Officer,

EMAG GmbH & Co. KG

"Lead the Category is our claim as a full-service partner for electronics. We 'challenged' the optimization of our purchasing processes and organization in all directions and constantly achieved improvements until everything fit for the KATEK Group. High scalability and flexibility ensures efficiency in our growth process. The cooperation was a real benefit. The team spirit has been motivating and inspiring. We are looking forward to the ongoing challenge with you – thank you, stay hungry!"

Christoph Antener, Chief Purchasing Officer,

KATEK SE

"Nothing less than the transformation of our purchasing to the requirements of the future is the path we have taken with Kerkhoff Consulting. Together, we have identified fields of action that prepare the processes and organization for changed requirements. The teams benefit from support in negotiating, digitizing and designing. Great progress has already been made and we continue to move forward! And to ensure that the Kerkhoff teams are always technically up to date, we are equipping them with notebooks and conference technology in return."

Stefan Sicken, Managing Director,

IT-HAUS GmbH

"Together with Kerkhoff Consulting, we have successfully transformed purchasing and SCM across all business units. The results are impressive: global lead buyers, digital processes and efficient management control systems have been introduced and this is already paying off financially, in addition to the savings achieved. Many thanks to the Kerkhoff team for the great cooperation.“

Raimund Wind, Vice President Corporate Supply Chain and Procurement,

JENOPTIK AG

"In the past years, Kerkhoff Consulting has proven to be our trusted consultant for the optimization of SCM and purchasing in the agricultural machinery and trailer sector. The consultants have supported us, among other things, in the trailer target cost calculation and supplier search, the organizational set-up of purchasing as well as the cross-location optimization of steel purchasing. In steel purchasing, we now act much more strategically in our deals, among other things due to a jointly developed and digitally supported forecast model. Kerkhoff has made a significant contribution to Krone achieving its business goals in a hyperinflationary market environment and living up to the guiding principle THE MOST IMPORTANT GOAL IS THE FUTURE."

Dr. Stefan Binnewies, Executive Board,

Bernard Krone Holding SE & Co. KG

“We regularly work with specialized management consultancies on selected topics. Together with the team of Kerkhoff Consulting, we were able to prepare our transparency in purchasing in the shortest possible time and thus secure the introduction of our new purchasing system. Due to company acquisitions in Europe, a heterogeneous data landscape had emerged which could be cleaned up, consolidated, and then made available for migration on time in exemplary teamwork with our purchasing team. The result shows that in the meantime every issue has to be considered from the system perspective and significantly supports our digitization offensive. The consulting team of Kerkhoff Consulting has been highly flexible to the task, especially due to the composition of the team and the chosen methodological approach. We are looking forward to further joint topics to increase our purchasing performance in challenging times.”

Dr. Kay Oppat, Member of the Board / CTO,

Knauf Interfer SE

"As a global automotive supplier, we not only have to be a leader in terms of our products, but also in terms of our processes and tools. Especially a modern, efficient purchasing organization is a central lever for cost optimization and quality assurance.

In close cooperation with Kerkhoff, we have reorganized our purchasing department in a powerful way: Medium-sized, dynamic, tailored to our needs. And equipped with effective tools, e.g. for cost analysis and strategic negotiation management, by which we can continuously optimize our procurement.

Kerkhoff has proven to be a strong partner at eye level in order to bring the reorganization to success in an efficient and target-oriented way."

Dr. Peter Sokol, CEO,
SEG Automotive Germany GmbH

"We experienced the consultants from Kerkhoff as real team players. The project was a complete success! The reported savings were exceeded. In parallel, we benefit from jointly optimized processes and structures in the purchasing organization. We will benefit from this in the long term. The close cooperation with our employees* and the digitalization of procurement processes made this project a success, thank you very much

Carsten Taucke, Chief Executive Officer,

Nagel-Group | Kraftverkehr Nagel SE & Co. KG

"Kerkhoff Consulting stands for pragmatic approaches, accompanied by a high methodological competence, a focus on the implementation of a jointly defined strategy. The Kerkhoff consultants have significantly helped us to make our purchasing organization more effective as well as more efficient and to leverage savings potentials which are often only seen with an outside view."

Bernard Krone, Chairman of the Supervisory Board,

Maschinenfabrik Bernard KRONE GmbH

""The consultants of Kerkhoff Consulting have competently, unapologetically and with their hands-on mentality taken over the establishment of local strategic purchasing and the purchasing team in one of our corporate units, conducted supplier talks and fixed contracts on our behalf. This led to a significant improvement in the conditions and reputation of Voith Industrial Services with its suppliers. These good experiences have prompted us to commission Kerkhoff Consulting with further projects in other units."

Michael Schnerring, Vice President Strategic Purchasing,

Voith Industrial Services Holding GmbH

"We analyze cost structures, get advice from the specialists of Kerkhoff Cost Engineering if necessary, and thus make our purchasing decisions on the basis of cost and process transparency."

Andreas Wiepck, Leiter Konzerneinkauf,

Warsteiner Brauerei Haus Cramer Management GmbH

"Together with the consultants from Kerkhoff Consulting, we have managed to sustainably improve our performance in purchasing. At all five German-speaking locations, we have used various strategic approaches and levers to significantly reduce our procurement costs and to align our supplier portfolio with future requirements. Our new purchasing organization now works together strategically across all sites and benefits from these synergies. The establishment of cost engineering and value analytics as a further central building block ensures the sustainability of our savings.

Albert Hiller, Senior Vice President Supply Chain Management Industrial Solution,

Wagner Group

Sometimes you have to look at things from a different perspective in order to question old strategies and approaches and, if necessary, to go new ways. The consultants from Kerkhoff Consulting showed a lot of tact in dealing with our industry-specific peculiarities.

Management consultants often have too much theory in their heads - but in our project, we 'sang on a common tune' very quickly. We were thus able to develop our understanding of the organizational handling of projects and their financing enormously in the many discussion rounds. In this sense - thank you very much."

Stefan Thul, Senior Vice President,

ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG

"For us, it is very important to use group synergies and, moreover, to integrate purchasing into the value creation at an early stage. The consulting services of Kerkhoff Consulting have sustainably closely interlocked our own organization and at the same time deepened the business relationship with the suppliers. This also includes knowing how the supplier produces and which parameters have an influence on him.

With Kerkhoff Cost Engineering, Kerkhoff Consulting offers methods to obtain this information. Even after consulting, we have easy access to all important variables through the Kerkhoff software which help us to make our daily decisions. In terms of content and concept, Kerkhoff Consulting fully met our expectations. The support was always customer-oriented and flexible - at all locations involved in the project. A thoroughly 

professional implementation - thank you very much."

Burkhard Dahmen, Board of Directors,

SMS Siemag Group GmbH

""We have implemented a continuous improvement process with which we constantly develop our organization. Kerkhoff Consulting has supported us with application-oriented approaches. Precise communication in understandable language was particularly important to us. In other words, everything that medium-sized companies expect from consultants and encounter far too rarely."

Wolfram Wacker, Supply-Chain-Management-Manager,

Conditorei Coppenrath & Wiese KG

"Kerkhoff Consulting - that is consulting in understandable language and with the focus on implementation. We have commissioned Kerkhoff to make our purchasing processes transparent in order to develop customized solutions for us on this basis. This concerns our organization as well as our supplier management. The project pays off because the consulting costs could be refinanced 100% by the project results. We are looking forward to a continued trustful cooperation on eyes

Dr. Hagen Duenbostel,  Board of Directors,

KWS SAAT AG