REDUCE COSTS,
MINIMIZE RISKS,
SECURE PROFITS
End-to-End Cost & Risk Management across your value chain. We don’t just advise, we implement and create impact it with you.
- Optimize Cost Base Fast - Leverage cost structure and product value analysis to unlock immediate savings
- Protect Value. Improve Cash Flow - Combine technical expertise, market intelligence, and digital solutions to strengthen financial performance and safeguard margins
- Build Resilience - Proactively identify and manage risks and build resilient, transparent supply chains.
- Maximize Value Creation - Capture lasting cost-base improvements driving cross-functional opportunities along the entire value chain
- Sustain Competitive Advantage - Embed cost and risk capabilities, developing people, structures, and skills for long-term impact
Your challenges - Our solutions
Lack of clear cost structures for your purchased goods?
We break down cost structures, uncover hidden cost drivers, and sharpen your negotiation position, so you consistently achieve better outcomes. Our approach blends hands-on experience, proven cost models, and advanced digital tools.
Supply Chain Risks and uncertainties?
We identify risks and bottlenecks, reduce dependencies, increase resilience by relocating from high-risk regions (Nearshoring) and establish effective Supply Chain Risk Management.
Lack of transparency and untapped savings potential?
Uncover hidden value. With experience in 1,000+ procurement negotiations, 500+ cost structure analyses, product cost calculations, and value engineering projects, we identify and capture opportunities others miss.
Cost Management without sustainable impact?
Deliver lasting impact. By leveraging data-driven methodologies, we secure sustainable savings and measurable P&L impact. We institutionalize cost management by building teams, processes, and capabilities needed for long-term success.
Who we support
- Experts in Procurement & Cost Analysis optimizing cost structures & complexity of products and Suppliers
- Procurement and Development Managers, looking to implement cost improvement methods and build cross-functional cost engineering teams.
- CEOs, ready to elevate competitiveness through smarter cost management, reduced risk, and stronger supply continuity
- Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) who fully understand and manage their costs, securing profitability and credibility
- Risk Managers who are required to manage stable, transparent Supply Chains and avoid insolvency risk
- Einkaufsprofis who base decisions on cost structures and not prices
WE increase Results and empower people
Agile Costs and Risk Management
Stay Ahead of Risk: Identify and assess supply chain risks and market shifts early. Adapt cost structures proactively to stay competitive.
Identifying untapped cost-cutting potential
Activate New Value Levers: Optimize direct and indirect spend while enhancing the value of both - existing and new products
Reduce complexity, increase Standarization
Simplify to win: Identify and analyze complexity drivers, reducing the variety of components, processes, and suppliers for cost savings
Restructuring & Building effective Organizations
Design structures, methods, and capabilities that drive performance. From cost & value analysis to high-impact value engineering teams
Effective Supplier Integration
Building partnerships for improved performance, costs and innovation processes
Transparent Spend and Cost Control
Measures to control spend and reduce Maverick Buying
Optimizing Cost and Complexity
Cost Structure Analysis
Product Value Design
Portfolio Optimization
Risk Management
Modularization/ Standardization
Design to Cost
Cost Optimization in Procurement, Design & Product Development
We connect your goals with the most effective levers to strengthen your P&L and competitiveness.
- We optimize Procurement, conducting cost analysis and cost engineering with efficient process development, digitalization and targeted employee training
- We manage risks by optimizing credit and financial risks, leveraging Supply Chain hedging and Supplier integration in innovation processes
- Understand customer expectations, optimize profitability & cost structures, and make product development more efficient through design-to-cost, variance reduction, and modular systems
- We determine target costs using product function analyses, Make-or-Buy and TCO analyses as well as Tear Down Workshops - complemented by strategic Category Management, Supplier development and negotiation optimization
Our Impactful Approach
Data-driven, Analytical & Highly Experienced
Get to know our Team
We are crisis-proven, results-driven Procurement, Supply Chain Risk & Cost Management leaders, who know firsthand how to build impactful teams and deliver sustainable cost improvements that strengthen earnings and cash flow. We are not just advisers - we make it happen.
Organizational Development & Procurement
Jan brings 30 years of experience in procurement, value creation, and cost optimization, along with more than 15 years in senior leadership roles across global organizations. He has a vast expertise in optimizing sourcing strategies and cost structures to deliver measurable business impact.
Jan built a procurement cost analysis function from the ground up at AGCO, leading a team of 20 cost professionals. In the automotive sector, he established similar capabilities at Benteler, where he scaled cost engineering and procurement cost analysis into a 200-person cross-functional cost improvement organization.
Jan has delivered numerous cost optimization programs and led 10+ restructuring and procurement transformation initiatives, consistently driving efficiency gains and sustainable cost reduction. Jan is an award-winning expert in supply chain risk management, having successfully built and implemented over 15 end-to-end risk management organizations.
Cost Management & Procurement
targetP shapes results
We embrace leadership & responsibility, act as architects of organizations and are renowned executors with a down-to-earth approach
We are familiar with SME structures and budgets as well as the needs of day-to-day business. We also support small projects on a daily basis and temporarily supplement/replace capacities. We all work together and create real savings.
We combine 80+ years of Procurement and leadership expertise with 20+ years of experience in costs and complexity management. We are decision-makers, connect stakeholders at C-level and operational level and deal with structural issues with management boards and works councils.
We have extensive restructuring experience and have successfully developed numerous organizations. We built, integrated, guided and empowered Procurement organizations, cost and value analysis teams as well as cost engineering teams. We know the obstacles and solutions.
We bring together Procurement as well as cost and complexity management expertise to seamlessly interlink the relevant value levers and methods: cost structure optimization in conjunction with effective Category and Supplier Management.
We don't rely on junior consultants to operate digital tools. Our process and technology experts use their many years of experience to determine realistic targets and implement them. We challenge and solve complex cost problems.
We see cost and complexity management as an integral part of comprehensive Supply Chain Risk Management. We balance cost optimization with the stability of Suppliers and Supply Chains. We holistically strengthen resilience both internally and externally.
We take a hands-on approach, implement and discuss with Suppliers, Developers and Procurement Professionals at eye level leveraging our technical expertise. More than 700 successful supplier visits and audits provide us with knowledge, understanding, assessment skills and practical grounding.
We have been responsible for or assisted in cost negotiations in more than 1,000 cases, representing company interests vigorously and realizing cost potentials. We also support your negotiations during preparation and implementation, and are happy to act as negotiators.
Together, we will redefine the game
We have experience with crises, optimize costs and empower organizations and teams
A stable Supply Chain and reliable Suppliers are crucial to minimize cost risks and make companies more resilient. By taking targeted measures, we help to reduce complexity, exploit bundling effects and economies of scale and thus achieve long-term competitive advantages.
Our expertise in professional negotiations provides better terms, increases liquidity and improves financial stability. At the same time, we support companies in strategically developing their organizations, sustainably expanding their value contribution and successfully positioning themselves for the future.
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Our Partner Network: experienced & versatile
Working together with strong partners, we master crises and challenges with confidence. Thanks to an experienced network of Cost Analysts, we are perfectly positioned for manpower-intensive projects and the complex variety of modern technologies and production processes. Our experts bring in-depth specialist knowledge and strategic foresight to ensure sustainable cost efficiency and competitiveness.
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