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Corona, skills shortages and supply bottlenecks: teams in purchasing and supply chain management have been facing major challenges for some…
The order situation is good, but supply bottlenecks make it impossible to meet customers’ needs. According to experts, 70 percent…
Purchasing is running hot! Material shortages, procurement problems, long delivery times: Purchasing departments currently have their hands full to secure…
Price negotiations are particularly difficult when a so-called monopolist is involved. However, it is necessary to differentiate between real and…
Don’t let logistics prices overtake you now! The Corona Lockdown is over for the time being – and with it…
Maarten Erasmus is a partner at Kloepfel Benelux and specializes in direct sourcing for the industry Imagine this: You have…
June 2021 Author Thanh Duy Tran, Senior Partner at Kloepfel Consulting The importance of purchasing for functioning companies is currently…
Keeping costs down with our battle plan! At present, more and more suppliers are approaching our customers to pass on…
Hit the brakes on transport prices now! The current Transport Market Monitor (TMM) shows it: Road transport capacity on the…
Against price increases and shortages! 1. Tip: Tap alternative suppliers 2. Tip: Use weaker phases for optimization 3. Tip: Maintain…
The manufacturing industry contributes 30% to the German economy. This is considerably more than the European average of 13% and…
How you can steamroll exploding air and ocean freight costs Are you also affected by the explosion in air and…
Cybercrime has been on the rise for years, but since the beginning of the Corona crisis, attacks by criminal hackers…
For most companies corona came out of nowhere and was an unprecedented shock. At first far away, it started in…
Attention, toll trap! Freight forwarders often calculate incorrectly A cost driver has remained undiscovered in many logistics departments for years!…
14% cost reduction with Kloepfel For many SMEs, the corona crisis is a matter of survival. It is therefore astonishing…
Restart purchasing in mechanical and plant engineering after Corona The crisis shock paralysed parts of the mechanical and plant engineering…
New opportunities through a change of supplier Since Corona, global procurement development has been in fast motion – and it…