Two Managing Directors.
One Promise: We Deliver Ourselves.
Since 2007, we’ve advised companies on procurement, logistics and supply chain management, with our own e-sourcing technology and no slide decks left to gather dust on a shelf. Here’s who’s behind OCCON, and why we exist.
Managing Director & Founder
Sabrina Bähr
Every healthy company needs that one person who doesn’t just know the way forward, but makes it happen and takes a clear stance. At OCCON, that person is Sabrina Bähr.
Sabrina’s expertise in logistics and beyond began before OCCON. Working as a consultant for the pharmaceutical and automotive industries at the time, she quickly recognised what “the big players” need to become efficient, and showed them exactly what matters.
Distinctly transparent project management and clearly led communication, internally and externally, are her guarantee for every strategic project’s success. Today, Sabrina is responsible for OCCON’s overall strategic direction: from supply chain and process optimisation to procurement and the ongoing development of the team.
What sets Sabrina apart: she understands not only which solution a company needs, but also how her contacts can look good with it internally. For many clients, working with her becomes more than a successful project, it becomes a career step.
What drives Sabrina: sustainable, independent solutions for clients. For that to work, she believes partnerships need an honest, trusting environment, a relationship in which people speak openly and directly, and put a finger on the wound whenever it’s needed. A professional friendship, if you will.
Privately, Sabrina has petrol in her veins. When she’s not taming horsepower, she’s pushing herself at CrossFit, with the same drive she brings to every project.
Managing Director & Founder
Joachim Stellner
Joachim takes on OCCON’s most methodically complex mandates, the ones where structure and analytical depth decide the outcome.
Long before OCCON was founded, Joachim was already active in the consulting industry. Chemicals and freight procurement consulting were among his areas of expertise.
Strong methodically and strategically, he’s largely responsible for solving even the most complex client challenges in a way that leaves people wondering why they didn’t think of it themselves.
What drives Joachim: making not just the job, but life itself easier for clients through process and product development. Delivering “aha” moments into his partners’ daily routines is simply part of the deal, and part of his 360° consulting service.
His hobbies? Pool billiards & darts, smart financial strategies, and travelling the world.
Why OCCON exists, and why we work the way we do.
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Why OCCON exists
Sabrina and Joachim worked in a very similar field before OCCON, and above all, they saw one thing: how leadership and consulting in procurement often work, and how they could work better. In 2007, they decided to try it themselves, with a clear idea of how to approach the procurement and logistics market differently.
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Pragmatic, not overblown
Structure and reliability are our standard, our clients confirm that again and again. What sets us apart is that we don’t overdo it: presentations as short as possible, a focus on facts rather than showmanship. We don’t recommend anything that ends up costing the client more than it delivers. And a solution the client can’t implement isn’t a solution at all, as far as we’re concerned. That’s why we adapt to what fits the client and their actual pain point, rather than pushing our own agenda.
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Why companies need more than a tool today
For years, the trend was toward e-sourcing tools, often marketed with AI these days. The teams meant to operate these tools mostly stayed just as lean. The result: a tool only one person in-house can really use, and a problem the moment that person is out. With us, the tool is never extra work: we operate it just as we advise on it, at whatever service level you need.
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Consulting, tool, outsourcing, all from one source
Most of the market offers consulting without a tool, or a tool without consulting. Service, meanwhile, is scarce everywhere. With us, it’s different: clients and service providers alike are consistently happy with the service they get alongside our tool. And you decide how much you want to take on yourself:
- Strategic consulting in procurement, logistics and supply chain management
- Our own e-sourcing tool u-tender, at different service levels
- Full outsourcing of operational procurement and logistics processes
- Interim management, when you need leadership on short notice
A boutique that even the biggest players trust with their spend.
We work for companies that are always significantly larger than we are, worldwide and for global teams. Whether €30 million or several billion euros in revenue: by nature, our clients are far bigger than us, and that’s exactly the difference a boutique like OCCON makes. Our clients stay with us, often for years, across the most varied formats: a strategy project here, a tender there, ongoing contract management in between.
The best reference we know: when we arrange reference calls for a prospective client, our long-standing clients are ready right away to spend an hour speaking honestly about working with us. Without us even having to ask twice.
Two people OCCON couldn't deliver without.
Liga Skujina
Lucas Trümper
Get to know us in person.
In your initial call, you’ll speak directly with Sabrina or Joachim, not an account manager.