- Inflation cost adjustments: cost control, cost transparency and improvements.
- Total cost of ownership to ensure long-term cost efficiency over the entire product life cycle.
- Balance cost with other requirements (resilience, ESG, etc).
Achieve better results in purchasing and procurement with EFESO
Strengthening competitiveness through excellence in procurement
The world in which companies operate is changing dramatically – the increasing separation of markets (regionalization), technological change, disrupted supply chains and increasing cost pressure are weakening the competitive position of many companies. They are confronted with rising material and freight costs, growing inventories and a much higher supply risk.
With a material cost share of >50%, purchasing is a key success factor in mastering the transformation into a new era of change and remaining competitive. As a result, procurement decision-makers must prepare for a digitalized, sustainable, and still uncertain future.
Six strategic procurement trends must be successfully addressed and mastered in order to strengthen procurement excellence and thus the company's competitiveness:
Procurement Trends 2025+
1: Cost efficiency & Inflation
2: Technology & Digitalization
3: Resilience & Risk Management
- Diversification of supply chain.
- Nearshoring and onshoring to reduce risk, lead times, transport.
- Business continuity planning risk management.
4: ESG & Sustainability
- Suppliers in compliance with ESG-criteria (e.g. supply chain due diligence).
- Reduction of Product carbon footprint (scope 3 upstream).
- Transparent and traceable supply chains.
5: Supplier Collaboration & Innovation
- Strong supplier collaboration to boost innovation and manage risk.
- Co-innovation on products and processes to achieve win-win-situation.
- Renascence of active Supplier Relationship Management.
6: Procurement as strategic partner
- Procurement with a major role in strategic management due to optimization of supply chains, risk reduction, supplier innovation driver.
- Upskilling: competence and know-how requirements are increasing continuously (technical capabilities, strategic thinking etc.).
BEST-in-CLASS purchasing and procurement – tapping into profitability reserves
A question that concerns many of our customers is: How can we achieve further results in terms of customer benefits and savings in an uncertain environment? Our team shares your passion for your products and masters the challenges in purchasing and procurement with you.
Our mission is to realize optimization potential. In particular, we identify solutions in the following areas in order to activate profitability reserves and continue to develop in a customer and cost-oriented manner.
PERFORMANCE DIAGNOSTICS
Identify operational, tactical and strategic improvement opportunities in your procurement.
Our tried-and-tested approach will help you achieve top performance.
PROCUREMENT AND PRODUCT GROUP STRATEGY
Ensure that your procurement strategy guarantees the profitability and competitiveness of your company.
Identify your key business challenges with us to future-proof your business and enable it to excellence.
END-TO-END TRANSFORMATION AND DIGITALIZATION
With a professional and future-oriented procurement and SCM organization, ensure that your company delivers top performance in terms of agility and target orientation.
Identify and implement best-practice structures and processes with us for your challenges and tasks in transformation phases.
SUPPLIER AND VALUE STREAM OPTIMIZATION
Activate unused savings potential at several stages of the value chain – from the supplier to the production in your own plant.
We work with you to implement the appropriate tools and the necessary know-how to manage and continuously improve inbound value chains.
NEGOTIATION MANAGEMENT
Unlock the full potential of your procurement.
We contribute our expertise from over 3,000 successful negotiations in which our clients have achieved savings of more than three billion euros.
MATERIAL COSTS OPTIMIZATION
Keep your company's profitability on track with material cost optimization.
Our best-in-class toolkit creates the framework for efficient, targeted and successful implementation of corresponding programs.
»Partnering with EFESO provided invaluable insights into previously overlooked cost-saving opportunities, executed with exceptional efficiency. Their sophisticated analytical methodology, deep market expertise, and outstanding negotiation skills empowered our procurement team to realize substantial and lasting cost reductions, far exceeding our expectations.«
»With EFESO we improved our performance significantly in two major Distribution Centers – fast. Their end-to-end assessment of processes, capacities and x-functional collaboration gave us not only the real pain points but also short and mid-term levers – ready to execute. This is why EFESO is our partner of choice to improve our operational performance regarding Distribution Centers.«
»We are transforming our Supply Chain Management (SCM) into a well-structured, end-2-end integrated, efficient SCM organization. EFESO guided us to develop and implement out new SCM target picture and blueprint. Their in-depth expertise in Supply Chain Management, understanding of our problems and ability to develop tailor-made solutions made them our advisor of choice.«
INSIGHT: PROCUREMENT AI TRANSFORMATION ASSESMENT
Visualize the future of your procurement.
INSIGHT: CAR MARKET TRENDS USA
Develop flexible strategies.
INSIGHT: MEGA CASTING
Achieve strategic production cost advantages and reduce the CO2 footprint.
INSIGHT: BIG DATA
Realize procurement savings.
INSIGHT: SCM STRATEGIC LEVERS
Strengthening and future-proofing supply chains.
