Capacity on time – ramp up and down purchasing at any time
Increase purchasing capacity at short notice
Due to crises and market conditions, the need for purchasing staff fluctuates for many companies. Skills shortages and geopolitical risks for supply chains or the Supply Chain Act sometimes require more and sometimes less work force in purchasing. Providers like Kloepfel Services help you to flexibly ramp up and down your purchasing capacity as needed from one day to the next. Employees with many years of international experience in operational and strategic purchasing, German and English speaking and very good user knowledge of various ERP systems and commodity groups drastically reduce the onboarding time.
Companies must drive on sight
Especially in these troubled times, it’s hard to plan your manpower for the long term. It is often difficult to predict whether new employees will still be needed in a few months. Many HR managers and CEOs therefore have to drive on sight and are correspondingly hesitant about new hires.
It is exactly in this situation that Kloepfel Services offers companies the possibility to flexibly ramp up and down their purchasing or to strengthen it in the long term. Our experienced purchasing managers in international purchasing can support you according to your needs. They have a very good knowledge of German and English and a lot of ERP know-how, be it with SAP, Navision, ProAlpha or other systems. This allows them to integrate into your processes very quickly. Our employees relieve your purchasing department on site or from Slovakia in the areas:
- Operational Purchasing
- Strategic Purchasing
- Industrialization Management
- Accounting Services
- Spotbuy
Capacity on time
It’s not about outsourcing purchasing completely. Rather, our German-speaking purchasing managers relieve your on-site purchasing department – for as long as you and your purchasing team need.tigen.
The crisis shocks of the last few years have literally forced many companies to innovate their human resources planning. The shortage of personnel makes it essential for companies to go new ways and to question previous personnel strategies – in this context, temporary outsourcing is also gaining new attention.
One advantage is that you have no cost risks, as the employment relationship with Kloepfel Services can be terminated at short notice. This also makes you resilient against a renewed crisis.
Either way, a test phase is recommended in which the competence of Kloepfel Services is initially explored at a low level – for example, by maintaining order confirmations or invoice verification.
Nearshoring to other EU countries: The advantages
As a location for nearshoring of tasks in temporary purchasing, other EU countries are particularly suitable. There are several advantages here: Low labor costs, EU legal certainty and smooth mediation between the purchasing department in Germany and suppliers abroad. This is because, contrary to prevailing prejudices, the personnel abroad at professional outsourcing partners can not only speak excellent German, but also English and, of course, the respective national language. So everything is covered: The direct line to Germany, the linguistic and cultural supplier support on site and the global sourcing in English. Likewise, all EU standards are maintained here and the work is correspondingly compliant with the law.
Nearshoring profitable not only in volatile circumstances
Low labor costs for excellent work results and personnel deployment that can be scaled at any time are always worthwhile. For example, when the order situation increases significantly or when you want to implement larger projects such as digitalization.
The Eastern European colleagues from Kloepfel Services quickly demonstrate how excellently they also work with regional German suppliers thanks to their linguistic and cultural competence. This is a high added value that you no longer want to do without.
Book an appointment with our nearshoring experts at Kloepfel Services:
Kloepfel Group
Christopher Willson
Tel.: 0211 941 984 33 | Mail: rendite@kloepfel-consulting.com