Our team has already successfully assisted a number of aerospace companies in purchasing. Due to a maximum of security precautions the environment is usually heavily regulated. Rising operating costs and increased competitive pressure from Asian low-cost carriers contribute to increased business risk. Low profit margins with constantly increasing price pressure and rapid developments in the digitization of business processes are the challenges that are gaining momentum. This is exactly where purchasing can show its strengths and generate competitive advantages.

Your benefits with SCALUE

• analyzes to reduce your cost structure

• 360° supplier analyzes

• deep insights to restructure and optimize your purchasing processes

• reduction of maverick buying and thus increasing purchasing control

Both OEMs and their suppliers to the automotive industry are exposed to constant cost pressure. The expansion of global presence is as much an essential factor as the investment in new business models and disruptive technologies. The pressure to produce low-emission vehicles with low fuel consumption increases and leads to further investments. However, this is necessary in order not to lose the connection in the medium and long term.
Well-founded and tailor-made solutions to the problem are indispensable, because no standard concept applies here. Our team has carried out purchasing projects at well-known tier 1 and tier 2 companies. Based on these practical experiences, we analyze your use case in a result-oriented manner and provide you with appropriate reporting across the Group and across all plants. This provides you with completely new, transparent insights into your purchasing – from the material group view to the order, delivery and invoice line item levels.

Your benefits with SCALUE

• transparency through cross-plant and cross-system analyzes

• clarity down to the order, delivery and invoice line item levels

• deep insights to restructure and optimize your purchasing processes

• operational and strategic saving potentials at the touch of a button

• purchase-to-pay optimization with process mining

• tracking delivery performance for reliability of supply

• non-linear performance pricing (NLPP) for assessing price-performance ratio

The existing business models of financial and insurance service providers are increasingly attacked by new disruptive approaches (often companies from other industries). As a result, companies are confronted with the need to follow suit and to further advance digitization. Purchasing is therefore more than ever required to ensure competitiveness by creating highly efficient purchasing structures. The reorientation of procurement is becoming increasingly important, especially as a result of the branch dying. These developments are having an increasing impact on the existing supplier structure as well as the entire procurement processes. Creating transparency in purchasing is an essential lever to face the new digital challenges. Costs and processes are now being put to the test.

Ihre Vorteile mit SCALUE

• procurement processes and structures are examined from a procurement perspective

• integrated best-of-breed analyzes of the top industrial and consulting companies

• simple, sustainable and transparent procurement controlling

• professional spend analysis in a secure IT infrastructure

• improve your purchase-to-pay processes with process mining

Your procurement is the foundation of your profits. The risk of insolvency in the construction industry is significantly higher than in many other industries. With a return on sales of 1% to 4%, contractors in particular generate the lowest return on all occupational groups involved in the construction. The cause for that is an increasingly intense price competition, which is exacerbated by the need to utilize staff and machinery. The focus is often placed on generating new orders instead of increasing profit margins by optimizing the calculation on the basis of strategic purchasing success. Use the most important analyzes for optimizing purchasing and sustainably increase your company’s results.

Your benefits with SCALUE

• detect cost savings of direct material immediately

• continuously improve delivery and payment conditions

• tracking delivery performance for reliability of supply

• reduction of maverick buying and thus uncontrolled purchases that take place outside of your purchasing department

• centralized reporting about your total spend volume

Driven by declining sales and decreasing margins in the energy network business, the deregulation of the market and changing political conditions are creating incalculable risks for the energy industry. Experience has shown that there is already a healthy level of transparency regarding the purchasing volume and corresponding cost changes. However, the full saving potential is rarely exhausted, as deeper strategic savings potential remain undetected in the hitherto accessible purchasing structures.

Your benefits with SCALUE

• uncover inefficient ordering processes

• generate coherent analyzes over the entire purchasing process

• automate ad-hoc reporting to the management

• prepare for negotiations in a few seconds

Whether classic retail, wholesale, mail order, e-commerce or technical trade – in tough price wars, purchasing is the value creator of the company. The guiding principle “the profit is in purchasing” is as characteristic of hardly any industry as it is of trade. Studies prove our practical experience. Corresponding instruments to reduce purchasing costs and thus drastically increase profit margins are often not used consistently. According to the buyers, the time factor plays an important role in the daily business. The protagonists’ responsibilities range from category management and the preparation of annual interviews and the optimization of the supply chain to the reduction of indirect spend. In addition, daily supplier negotiations and the tracking of delivery performance are on the agenda. It quickly becomes apparent that strategic purchasing is facing capacity constraints and needs support in efficiently processing information to perform its tasks.

Your benefits with SCALUE

• ready-to-use negotiation dashboards

• analysis of material cost variancies

• multi-dimensional monitoring of quantity and delivery reliability (for example by supplier, material groups, products, locations, etc.)

• reduction of maverick buying and inefficient ordering processes

Healthcare is one of the most important economic sectors in Germany today. Yet every second hospital generates lasting negative results, even though the industry is growing due to ever higher health spending. Here, the material used as the second largest cost block in the hospital makes a significant contribution. Because just here are significant savings potentials, e.g. through optimized ordering processes or a reduction in the variety of variants in close coordination with the specialist staff. The quality of the master data has an enormous impact on the purchasing success and thus on the amount of savings to be achieved. The master data maintenance is therefore often operated in specially created departments or outsourced accordingly. However, the results are long in coming and the purchase loses valuable time. With our expertise, we accelerate the process and provide you with the first founded analyzes in just a few days.

Your benefits with SCALUE

• data health check to assess the quality of your master and transaction data and identify weak points

• analysis of medical and non-medical spend at the touch of a button

• deep insights to restructure and optimize your purchasing processes

• intelligent algorithms to identify cost and process potential

The electronics industry is a driving force of technological progress. Smart grid, smart home or smart factory, electric drive, autonomous driving or connectivity – it does not work without electronics. The pressure of the market is clearly noticeable. Therefore, it is important to drive innovation in the company, which is fast, reliable and economical … and with maximum efficiency in strategic purchasing. From our experience, purchasing already brings a high level of technical understanding and deals with complex, disruptive manufacturing technologies. The markets are well-known and the high-tech requirements for the product are well understood. However, this work requires a lot of day-to-day capacity to keep track of operational tasks such as tracking price changes and delivery performance. Leverage your resources and benefit from an easy-to-use, intuitive solution to help you achieve your purchasing goals faster and more efficiently.

Your benefits with SCALUE

• state-of-the-art spend analytics with intelligent optimization algorithms

• perform complex and comprehensive analyzes within seconds

• identify monetary and procedural optimization potentials

• increase strategic share in daily business for maximum efficiency

• visualize and clean up inefficient order processes

The challenges for consumer goods manufacturers are now well beyond the price pressures driven by retail. In particular, the increasing complexity of the business model is almost demanded by the customers and creates problems for the producers. Examples include an ever-increasing variety of items with decreasing release and contract volumes, as well as a massive increase in product relaunches. The demands on the products are also increasing as the market is exposed to various sustainability efforts, as well as increased legal framework conditions. As a result, purchasing in day-to-day business is integrated into activities that are more operational. The resources of the purchasing are thus not dedicated to the important strategic core tasks. Our team can provide you with years of industry expertise to leverage undiscovered returns to boost your bottom line. We increasingly find approaches in the areas of raw materials, packaging, logistics, indirect costs and ordering processes.

Your benefits with SCALUE

• reduce and identify continuously cost and effort drivers

• identify undiscovered returns with intelligent algorithms

• prepare supplier negotiations within seconds

• focus on strategic core tasks in your daily business

• measurement of delivery performance and utilization of payment terms

The developments in machinery and plant engineering are an enormously important driver of the economy. However, long-term strategic planning can be quickly caught up in foreign trade and economic developments in the highly export-oriented industry. The competition from non-European market participants is also steadily increasing. A fundamental change is now imminent. To be successful, companies must respond to key challenges. Purchasing is becoming increasingly important as it provides the primary levers to increase profit margins. Due to the high variety of products and variants, strategic purchasing is challenged in the areas of cost efficiency and standardization, as well as through the implementation of individual customer requirements. With our experience, we can now support you in achieving your purchasing goals.

Your benefits with SCALUE

• analyzes for serial and single-item production

• transparency of purchasing costs and inefficient purchasing structures

• deep insights to restructure and optimize your purchasing processes

• reduction of maverick buying and thus increasing spend under purchasing control

• perform ad hoc negotiations with comprehensive supplier dashboards

The furniture industry is characterized by steadily growing international competition. In addition, consumer buying habits have changed in recent years. Consolidated intra-European and far-away Asian procurement markets are just as much a part of the purchasing environment as fluctuating raw material prices and limited resources. Get solid on the long term for the new challenges in a global supply chain. The focus should be on improving item prices and payment conditions in the area of ​​production materials, as well as reducing overheads and achieving bundling and economies of scale in furniture logistics. By means of an appropriate global sourcing you create the necessary competitive advantages in purchasing.

Your benefits with SCALUE

• track fluctuating commodity prices on e.g. supplier or item level

• recognize potentials for price and condition optimization in your variety of products

• identify local bundling effects

• analyze your global sourcing activities

The pharmaceutical industry has been increasingly consolidated for years through mergers and acquisitions within the industry. In addition, global logistics and packaging concepts are presenting companies with ever-greater challenges. The increasing complexity of business models also reinforces profound changes across the industry. In a state-regulated market, clever supplier structures and efficient purchasing processes are becoming increasingly important for purchasing in order to generate sustainable competitive advantages. Standardize your purchasing structures and increase transparency throughout the supply chain. We help you to prepare your company for dynamic market situations in the long term and achieve sustainable savings.

Your benefits with SCALUE

• total spend transparency

• 360° supplier analyzes

• deep insights to restructure and optimize your purchasing processes

• standardized reporting for purchasing and specialist departments

Exports to high-risk countries, political restrictions and dependency on the energy market are just some of the key challenges facing the steel and aluminum industries. However, this industry is closely linked to the success of other industries such as automotive and machinery through its numerous innovations. Important customer sectors are also found in electrical engineering and construction, as well as steel and metal processing. The consideration of the entire supply chain has a special significance for purchasing in order to generate optimization measures along the value chain. Our experienced team will assist you in the analysis of coherent purchasing processes in order to identify hidden saving potentials.

Your benefit with SCALUE

• process mining to optimize your real purchasing processes

• 360° supplier analyzes

• analysis of your order and delivery structures

• forecasts and scenario analyzes

You have not found your industry and would like to discuss your use case with us. Then get in touch with our experienced sales team. We guarantee a consultation at eye level!

You are responsible for the strategic approach within the company and specify the EBIT targets for the operating business. As a central tool for controlling your business processes, you use the ERP system and, in addition, receive KPIs from the IT department. However, to increase margins, measure the efficiency of your purchasing department, and increase business performance, you need a centralized analysis tool that gives you deeper insights into the entire purchasing process. This is the only way to create the right strategic conclusions across all locations and place them in the overall context of your corporate strategy. We support you with management analytics and role-based views that provide you with all the information needed for strategic decision-making process in seconds.

Your benefits with SCALUE

• total spend transparency

• management dashboards for top-level executives

• strategic control of your purchasing department

• role and rights system for individual management views

• increase efficiency in purchasing and reduce your costs

• benefit from a know-how transfer that strengthens your purchase sustainably

You are part of the management team and you are responsible for the entire financial system. The financial and liquidity planning enjoys you a particularly high attention. Furthermore, the steering and control of financial accounting is in your hands. You ensure that the management and the entire executive board have an overview of the company’s financial situation at all times. Purchasing plays a high priority role, as every Euro saved will have a direct impact on the company’s EBIT. To optimize your working capital and secure and increase your liquidity, you need an efficient analysis tool for company-wide reporting. Here we can help you leverage your purchasing budgets and provide you with a correspondingly short-term ROI.

Your benefits with SCALUE

• transparency about your company-wide total spend volume

• analyzes from the management view to the cost center and invoice item line level

• deep insights into the purchasing processes for optimal budget and liquidity planning

• role and rights system for individual management views

• increase efficiency in purchasing and reduce your costs

You are responsible for all global sourcing activities throughout the company. Your position significantly influences the costs and thus the liquidity of your company. You also control the strategic approach and further development of the purchasing organization. To reach purchase targets it is important not only measuring improved delivery performance and savings, but intelligently force realization. What you need is digital support. Here, with our solution portfolio, we offer you a way to reach your purchasing goals faster and more efficiently. Company-wide management reporting is integrated as well as strategic analyzes at the order, delivery and invoice item line levels. Recognize profound relationships in your purchasing processes and make your purchase even more valuable for your company.

Your benefits with SCALUE

• transparency about your company-wide total spend volume

• discover hitherto hidden saving potentials

• keep control of your spend volume and processes (e.g., suppliers, material groups, products, plants, etc.)

• receive the analyzes of the top industrial and consulting companies

• increase efficiency in purchasing and reduce your costs

• benefit from a sustainable know-how transfer that makes your team fit for the future of procurement

• management view with role and rights system for company-wide spend analytics

Are you being kept away from your strategic work by day-to-day operations? Are you lacking human or technical resources to sustainably improve the performance of your purchasing? Do you already know SCALUE SpendFLOW™

Your benefits with SCALUE

• total spend transparency

• discover hitherto hidden saving potentials

• keep control of your spend volume and processes (e.g., suppliers, material groups, products, plants, etc.)

• receive the analyzes of the top industrial and consulting companies

• increase efficiency in purchasing and reduce your costs

• benefit from a sustainable know-how transfer that makes your team fit for the future of procurement

You are responsible for several material groups and need quick answers for strategically demanding tasks? In addition, do you regularly create elaborate reports for your management? Do you already know SCALUE SpendFLOW ™

Your benefits with SCALUE

• measure the performance of your suppliers

• transparency about costs and processes in the material groups you manage

• recognize profound relationships in the whole purchase-to-pay processes

• use the strategic tools of the top industrial and consulting companies

• be meaningful at any time with in-depth reports from the management view to the item level

You are responsible for complex modules and assemblies and manage thousands of products? Are you the interface to strategic and operative purchasing and are you looking for the right connector? Do you already know SCALUE SpendFLOW™

Your benefits with SCALUE

• analyze your products multidimensionally in order to discover potentials (suppliers, material groups, plants, etc.)

• get a quick overview of your built-in components

• determine possible equal parts with the master data scan

• track your tools and react early to default risks

You control the smooth processing of orders and monitor on-time deliveries? The ordering processes in your company are not ideal, but you do not know where to start? Do you already know SCALUE SpendFLOW™

Your benefits with SCALUE

• analyze deadlines, quantity and delivery performance across all dimensions (suppliers, material groups, products, etc.)

• visualization of the real purchase-to-pay processes with process mining to reduce effort and costs

• analyze your order structure and reap the “LOW-HANGING FRUITS”

• tail spend management analyzes for your small demands and single use needs

• working capital optimization through targeted analysis of delivery and payment conditions

An opportunity assessment serves as the basis for the decisive development of efficient strategies for the optimization of costs and processes. First, all purchasing data is recorded and the current situation is analyzed. Often, an opportunity assessment is also used to obtain the contract for the mandate to carry out a purchasing optimization project. Therefore, it is particularly important to gain deep insights into the entire purchasing process quickly and without much effort. We help you to identify not only the low-hanging fruits, but also the potential savings from deeper lying data structures. The ROI is critical to your projects, and that’s where we start with high-quality spend analytics. Together with us carry out your potential analyzes and improve your project chances.

Your benefits with SCALUE

• total spend transparency

• discover hitherto hidden saving potentials

• analyze your products multidimensionally in order to discover potentials (suppliers, material groups, plants, etc.)

• agile analysis to get much deeper insights into the purchasing process

• point out inefficiencies and increase your project opportunities

For purchasing optimization projects, it is important to implement the project goals generated from the opportunity assessment. The sustainable reduction of direct material costs, working capital optimization, improvement of delivery performance and cost reduction are just a few key words that characterize the extensive consulting business. Here it is necessary to avoid high manual effort and to use the available resources efficiently and purposefully. For success-based projects, every additional project day reduces your result. On the other hand, daily rate projects demand good results from day one, as the customer usually pays in advance. In both cases, however, the achievement of your project goals is in the foreground and the expectations of the customer at the end of the project are enormous. We can help you achieve your project goals faster and more efficiently, and shorten the project duration, especially in the analysis phase. Track your actions to implement a successful project.

Your benefits with SCALUE

• flexible insights into the purchasing processes from different perspectives

• get ready for negotiations in a matter of seconds

• shorten your project time and reduce manual effort

• say goodbye to rigid metrics and show strategic and operational relationships

• reduce order process costs and increase your project result

• build strategies easier and track your initiatives

For successful projects, it is all the more desirable for your customers to build up expertise in their own analytics and thereby sustainably strengthen purchasing. Experience has shown that project handovers contain increasingly elaborate files for spreadsheets and corresponding presentation documents. It would be nice if customers could continue to work with their project results and analyzes after the project ended. Here, both the spend analytics and a reporting on-demand are available to continue to serve your customers after the project ends.

Ihre Vorteile mit SCALUE

• transfer of the project results in digital and reusable form

• sustainable customer retention through integrated cross-selling after the end of the project

• reporting on demand

• long-term development of analytical know-how in the customer’s purchasing department

• qualification for further consulting projects and follow-up contracts

Looking at the investment market over the last few years, there has been a significant increase in available cash and liquid assets. At the same time, however, the number of investments has stagnated. A record amount of approximately $ 1.5 billion of uninvested capital also creates a huge investment pressure for private equity firms. The global battle for lucrative investment goals is increasingly triggering a chain reaction. Significantly increased acquisition multiples are the consequence and lead again to increased returns expectations of investors. To generate sustainable profits, private equity firms today need to penetrate much deeper into the organization and illuminate the entire business process. The identification of saving potentials for value and performance enhancement in purchasing has taken on a special significance. Here, our team has in-depth practical experience and purchasing expertise from industry and consulting in order to identify and leverage relevant potential. Our goal is to uncover cost reduction opportunities already in the early stages, which contribute to increasing the value of a company and favoring the expected return on investment. This also increases the scope for investors throughout the bidding process. But what are the strengths of SCALUE compared to software and consulting providers?

The SCALUE management team has more than 15 years of practical experience in purchasing and purchasing consulting, and knows the operational, strategic and process optimization options from different perspectives and functions. Our solution portfolio supports private equity companies over three investment phases.

Your benefits with SCALUE

You have several companies in your portfolio and manage a considerable spend volume. Create transparency in purchasing and exploit undiscovered synergy effects. Bundle the entire cross-company spend volume via different ERP systems in one solution. Simultaneously optimize all connected portfolio companies and reduce your resource expenditure.

Your benefits with SCALUE

• total spend transparency about all our portfolio companies

• discover synergy effects

• streamline processes across companies and increase efficiency

• long-term development of analytical know-how in purchasing

• increase in enterprise value