F&P makes the differenceConsulting with implementation power

Our team helps you to develop effective marketing strategies that are tailored to your target group. We analyze your market position and identify opportunities to increase sales. Through targeted sales measures, we ensure that your products and services are presented in the best possible way.

Whether it’s coping with digitalization or demographic changes, we design HR strategies that promote creativity and innovation and increase your operational excellence.

Our approach starts with your internal customers – every employee and every manager. We analyze the employee experience and, in close cooperation with your strategy managers, derive the HR priorities that support your corporate goals. We also keep an eye on market conditions and your competitors to give you a competitive advantage.

With a deep understanding of the need for integrated corporate cultures, organizational structures and HR processes, we not only develop strategies, but also translate them into precise measures.

• In this way, we ensure the successfulstrategic realignment or restructuring of your HR department through early change management.
• Through a strong corporate culture, we lay the foundations for an attractive working environment that attracts and retains top talent.
• Together with your managers, we develop your new management culture and support you with suitable management development measures and individual coaching sessions.
• We streamline and optimize your HR processes with our tried-and-tested analysis methods . On this basis, we support the digitalization of HR workflows and thus exploit further potential for increasing efficiency.

Whether you need support with implementation or would like to place the entire project management in our hands, our team of experienced HR experts is there to assist you.

We support you throughout the entire product development process, from brainstorming to market launch. Our experts use their expertise to help companies use modern approaches and technologies. Our consultants create innovative solutions that meet the needs of your customers. In this way, we ensure that your company is always future-oriented.

Our focus in product development:

• Customer-centric innovation: Our methods ensure that your products meet real customer needs and create added value.
• Technology as a lifeline: We integrate pioneering technologies into your product development to ensure your long-term competitiveness.
• Time-to-market: We optimize your development processes to bring products or custom designs to market faster in scope and budget and secure competitive advantages.
• Intrapreneurship: We promote entrepreneurial thinking within your organization to drive innovation from within.
• Agile development methods: We implement flexible development processes that enable rapid adaptation to market changes.
• Rapid Business Deployment: Our strategies enable you to develop new business models and products in an agile manner and establish them on the market quickly.
• Scaling your business: We support you in scaling your successful product concept quickly and efficiently in order to gain market share.

Our holistic approach to product development and innovation ensures that your company not only keeps pace with the market, but actively shapes the future of your industry. Let’s work together to turn your ideas into market-leading products.

Our holistic approach to supply chain management ensures the seamless integration of all players in your value chain. We optimize your supply chain processes to increase efficiency, reduce costs and sustainably improve your competitiveness.

Our core competence in supply chain management

• Process optimization: We analyze and optimize your entire supply chain to eliminate inefficiencies and speed up processes. This can also include the close management of critical suppliers.
• Strategic risk management: Our experts identify potential risks and develop robust strategies to minimize them.
• Transformation of the value chain: We support you in the holistic transformation of your supply chain to make it future-proof (according to ESG criteria) and agile. Corporate goals can be achieved through well-founded make-or-buy decisions or best-cost-country strategies.
• Building a trusted supplier ecosystem: We help you build long-term and resilient partnerships with your suppliers. Risk management, best-cost-country strategies, delivery times and potential supply chain disruptions are considered with your team.
• Digitalization of complex supply chains: By using state-of-the-art technologies, we make your supply chain transparent, flexible and responsive.

Recommendations for action and implementation: We not only provide analyses, but also support you in the concrete implementation of improvement measures.

There is often great potential for optimization in the areas of purchasing, logistics and production. We help you to fully exploit this potential and raise your operational processes to a new level of performance. In doing so, we reduce throughput times and increase productivity.

Our services in detail:

• Purchasing optimization: We develop strategies to improve your purchasing conditions and build strong supplier relationships. We reduce your procurement costs through targeted contract renegotiations and the identification of alternative sourcing options.
• Increasing efficiency in logistics: Our experts analyze your logistics processes and implement solutions for smooth goods movement and optimized stock levels.
• Production optimization: We increase the efficiency of your production through:
  • Minimization of set-up times
  • Increasing flexibility in production
  • Reduction of throughput times
• Personnel development: We train your employees in modern methods of purchasing, logistics and production in order to exploit the full potential of your team.
• Industry focus: Our consultants have in-depth industry knowledge and can therefore develop specific solutions tailored to your sector.
• Cost optimization: We identify potential savings along the entire value chain, including the possibility of relocating production steps to best cost countries.

By optimizing your purchasing, logistics and production processes, we achieve a significant increase in your operational efficiency. Proven results: throughput times reduced by 70 to 80%, productivity often increased by a factor of 3 and an improved competitive position of your company on the market.

Let’s take your supply chain and operational processes to the next level together. With our holistic approach and many years of experience, we are your ideal partner for sustainable improvements in purchasing, logistics and production.

Efficient business applications and a high-performance IT infrastructure are the key to success. Our IT experts support you in realizing this decisive competitive advantage for your company.

Your added value through our IT consulting

• Strategic business driver: We position IT not as a pure cost factor, but as a central driver of your company’s success. By optimally aligning your IT systems with your business processes, we create measurable increases in value.
• IT on the board: We support you in establishing IT topics at board level. In this way, we ensure that technological decisions are made in line with your strategic corporate goals.
• Focus on the business case: We specialize in working out and maximizing the specific business benefits of your IT projects. Every investment is optimized in terms of its contribution to value creation. Systems and applications for mapping business processes are selected to suit the business purpose.
• Tailor-made implementation: Our experts support you in the introduction and optimization of ERP, CRM and other business-critical applications and systems, especially SAP. We ensure that the implementation runs smoothly and is perfectly tailored to your specific business requirements.
• Overcoming obstacles: We identify and eliminate IT-related bottlenecks in your organization. In doing so, we transform what is often the biggest stumbling block into a catalyst for innovation and efficiency.
• Development of new business models: We help you to open up completely new business areas and strengthen your market position through innovative IT solutions, e.g. artificial intelligence.
• Holistic approach: Our consulting goes far beyond pure IT aspects. We consider the interaction between processes, people and IT systems from the outset in order to create holistic benefits and achieve sustainable improvements.

Your benefits at a glance:

1. Reduce costs and increase efficiency: Optimized IT systems and processes increase productivity in all areas of the company.
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3. Risk minimization: Our experienced team ensures that your IT projects are implemented on time, on budget and with minimal risk. IT and project risks are systematically identified, evaluated and reduced through suitable measures.
4. Employee empowerment: Through targeted training measures, we enable your employees to exploit the full potential of your IT systems.
5. Competitive edge: With forward-looking IT strategies, you can position yourself as an innovation leader in your industry.
6. Future-proof: We work with you to develop scalable IT solutions that grow with your company and adapt to future challenges.

Together, we develop your IT infrastructure from a cost factor to a strategic asset. With our expertise in IT and business applications, we create the technological basis for your company’s long-term success.

Controlling, Finance & Risk Management:

We develop individual controlling and financial strategies that are precisely tailored to your business objectives. Our risk analyses help you to identify potential challenges at an early stage and take effective countermeasures. In this way, we ensure the long-term stability and growth capacity of your company.

What measures are particularly important in the short term?

• Data analysis and collection: Record all relevant data on current processes, market conditions and internal procedures in order to identify risks at an early stage. This primarily involves reporting tools that identify negative changes in the company’s key figures at an early stage. Specific workflows should be recorded, trained and strictly adhered to. Conditions must be created that can respond quickly to market changes and adjust processes in line with the change.
• Risk identification: Hold regular workshops with your first and second management levels and those with their teams. Involve your employees in your strategic decisions and ensure that your strategic decisions can also be implemented by your employees. Set up a “Risk Control” department that deals exclusively with risks and has a direct reporting line to the management, ideally to the CRO or CFO, depending on the type of company. In addition, hold brainstorming sessions with your employees from different departments (especially interdisciplinary) to identify potential risks and potential opportunities. Encourage communication between departments (e.g. purchasing with finance, purchasing with sales, risk with purchasing.
• Prioritize these risks: Evaluate the identified risks according to probability of occurrence and potential damage. Use a risk matrix to prioritize the most important risks.
• Develop countermeasures: Develop concrete action plans for the prioritized risks in order to avoid their occurrence or minimize their impact.
• Risk communication: Inform all relevant stakeholders about identified risks and planned measures in order to promote a common understanding.
• Monitoring and reporting: Implement a continuous monitoring system to regularly review risks and evaluate the success of countermeasures (as described above)
• Flexibility and adaptability: Be prepared to adapt your strategies and measures quickly when new risks or changes arise.
• Training and sensitizing your employees: Train all your employees in basic risk assessment and avoidance in order to establish a risk-conscious corporate culture. Only if every employee is able to recognize impending risks can they report them to the appropriate department, which will then take appropriate action without delay.
• Working capital

A cross-reference to the topic of “working capital” in companies is permitted here: risks and the lack of attention paid to them by the management or the absence of risk identification tools in the company have a direct impact on the creditworthiness of companies with banks. The risks can be manifold and always require individual consideration. Ultimately, this can mean that working capital cannot be spent or can only be spent to a lesser extent. Risks therefore have a direct impact on bank ratings.

• Mergers and acquisitions

If your company is planning to buy another company or is considering a succession plan as part of a sale, then the risks are naturally the focus of any buyer’s consideration. Companies that are bought also compare their risk systems with those of the acquiring companies.

All in all, it should be noted that F&P is at your disposal for all these issues in a competent and committed manner and is in a position to support trend-setting decisions and present individual solution proposals with simultaneous implementation. We never do this from the “round table”, but always through the eyes of the entrepreneur.

Of course, F&P also provides support with controlling and finance issues; we are not purely a risk consultancy, but have also positioned ourselves broadly in this area.