The clients of THESEN AG come from nearly all business horizons. The requirements for basic products are thus correspondingly different. We cover the entire nationally and globally available spectrum of ABC products. Moreover we develop coordination concepts for the requirements across your entire company. By networking the procurement areas we open, in collaboration with you, additional operative potentials and potentials for strategic negotiation.

Procurement and Production

The evolution of the cost of materials starts with the first building block. Procurement can therefore not only orient itself on the basis of preexisting requirements, but must help shaping them by participating in product development and design by taking part in an inclusive production team. Its tasks would then be, for example, to

• make proposals for standardization and volume grouping of parts
• take a procurement-oriented Influence on technological decisions

To fulfill these broader responsibilities our advisory teams always have engineers from the branch of our clients besides experienced purchase officers.

Methods and measurements

We advise and support you in your strategic and operative procurement functions with methods and instruments like

•   Setting up a high performance portfolio of suppliers and sustainable customer/supplier
    relationship
• >>> Supplier management
  
  
•   Identifying and implementing quantitative and qualitative measures in procurement
• >>> Best-Practice, Benchmarking
  
  
•   Identifying and documenting options for cost reduction
• >>> Analysis of potential
  
  
•   Setting up an electronic information and reporting system
• >>> Procurement controlling
  
  
•   Supply of an electronic procurement platform
• >>> Electronic procurement
• >>> Online auctions
  
  
• Integrated appraisal and optimization of the vertical and horizontal integration in your company
• >>> Performance analysis, evaluation, organization
  
  
• Early and close involvement of procurement and supplier competences in product development
• >>> Product & development-oriented procurement
  
  
• Reduction of the cost of materials while simultaneously insuring availability and quality
• >>> Global procurement
  
  
• Company-wide grouping of procurement objects and capabilities
• >>> Material group management
  
  
• Identification and realistic evaluation of cost drivers of procurement objects
• >>> Total Cost of Ownership
  
  
• Outsourcing of financing and operation of capital goods and processes
• >>> BOT (build-operate-transfer) model