From logistics to procurement: We make you the strongest link in your supply chain.
We advise you as if it was about our own procurement and supply chain. Always with these goals:
- Less risk in globalisation, centralisation and M&A processes
- More control, security and transparency in your processes
- Cost and process optimisation with increasing quality
A selection of customers who already enjoy smooth logistics operations:
Multinational corporation or small caps: we optimise for companies of all sizes
In case you are wondering whether we are a good match: we come into play with our customers in the following scenarios.
EXCESSIVE WORKLOAD
Many important projects at the same time, but lack of manpower
Good order situation, but deadlines cannot be met
High priority projects but lack of resources and know-how
Lack of experience,
high risk
Growth and/or globalisation lead to uncertainties
Structures are changing from decentralised to centralised
Challenges in the area of M&A require new processes in purchasing & co.
Blind Spots: search & find
You feel that your turnover could be higher and expenses could be lower
Lack of transparency and data chaos lead to confusion and uncertainty
Lack of own resources restrict you from thinking and acting big
Does any of this sound familiar to you? We help you turn the tide so you can focus on what drives you.
Have you already heard from us? Then possibly from here:
Problems in logistics, purchasing and supply chain? We got the solutions.
All good things come in 3x2: We solve these 6 problem areas
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Missing benchmark.
No clues.
You don't have a partner at your side who gives you insights for your industry, pushes you in the right direction or optimises your expenses?
We bring you and your costs back on track. So that the paths you take no longer have to be gut decisions.
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Blindspots? Are known. Way out? None.
You are aware of your so-called "blind spots", but you lack the know-how and/or the resources in the team to eliminate them?
We are not only your visual aid, we take you to where you and your employees have always wanted to be.
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Wrong or no purchasing strategy
Did you always have the feeling that you are buying goods and materials too expensive in logistics, but don't know how to get out of this misery?
We advise you in such a way that not only will your wallet be happy, but that supply bottlenecks and empty warehouses will (in the future) no longer be an issue.
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Nothing fits: structure, processes & role assignments
You set yourself new important targets every year. But despite all your efforts, do you end up just failing to achieve it?
We can reassure you: sometimes all it takes is a fresh look from the outside that brings clarity. And we always bring this with us.
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Tools here and there
Tools like Excel & Co. can be a real blessing. But you know: a curse as well. At the latest when one tool doesn't know what the other is doing.
We make sure that your software “talks to each other” and that it is always clear what information is available to you and where to find it.
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Missing monitoring & controlling
Not sure if you and your business are growing? Or you do not know the reasons for the growth? One word: data.
We support you in creating your most important metrics, keeping an eye on them and reading them. The growth comes (almost) by itself.
A selection of happy customers
Special fields as far as the eye can see.
This is what you get from us:
logistics
- Sea, Land, Air, Barge, Rail, Parcel, Short Sea, Warehouse
- Inbound, Outbound, Intercompany
- Loading operations
- Process optimisation
- Distribution concept
- Warehouse locations
- Optimisation of flows
- Service optimisation
- KPIs
- On-time deliveries
- Freight controlling
- Network change alarm
- Identification of digitisable processes
- Cost-benefit analysis
- Implementation & Change Management
PROCUREMENT
- Strategies & implementation
- Product related strategy
- Negotiation
- Indirect: Transport & Logistics, Warehouse
- Direct: Raw material, packaging and more!
- SRM / Partnership + Qualification
- Spot vs. Long Term Contracts
- Compliance
- Simulation, optimisation
- KPIs
- Reporting
- Forecast vs. real
- Freight
- Process
- Best Practices
- Internal / external
Supply Chain
- Resources needed
- Manpower internal / external
- SOPs & Concepts
- Implementation & Change Management
- Pre-qualification
- Supply Chain Law
- Strategic fit
- Global, regional, local
- Single, dual, multi
- Concept according to strategy
- Make or buy
- Cost & Service Analysis
- Know-how management
- Flexibility & agility
- Ability to innovate
- Security of supply
- Data cleaning & analysis
- SWOT analysis
- Optimisation
We are your partner.
We are OCCON.
If you ask us what our goal is as a management consultancy, the answer is actually quite simple: to make customers from logistics, purchasing and supply chain management happy. How do we do that? The answers are as individual as our customers.
As a company that is based in Europe but advising customers all over the world, there is hardly anything that we have not been able to get right. We make it work for our customers. No matter whether in logistics, in purchasing or anywhere else along the supply chain. And this since 2007!
A lot has happened since that time. Today, our employees are spread all over the world and spreading our corporate DNA: flexibility – integrity – reliability. This is so well received by our project partners that they recommend us internally when they take the next career step when they take the next career step internally or even if they start working for a new company!
Oh, and did we mention we’ve developed our own software to keep your processes seamless? Yes, we did.
Managing Director:
Sabrina Baehr
Every healthy company needs that one person who not only knows where to go, but who takes action and shows a clear edge. At OCCON, this person goes by the name of Sabrina Bähr.
Sabrina’s expertise in logistics & Co. started even before OCCON. At that time still working as a consultant for the pharmaceutical and automotive industry, she recognized very quickly what the “big players” need in order to be efficient and showed them what is important.
Unmistakably transparent project management and clear communication (internally and externally) are your guarantee for every strategic project success.
What drives Sabrina: Sustainable and independent solutions for customers. To make this work, it is important to her that an honest and trusting environment is created in partnerships. An interrelation in which one speaks openly and directly (and puts the finger in the wound whenever necessary). Like a professional friendship, if you will.
Privately, Sabrina has petrol in her veins. When she’s not bridling the horsepower, she’s pushing herself at CrossFit. You know: healthy mind and healthy body and so on.
Managing Director:
JOACHIM STELLNER
As the saying goes: A good managing director rarely comes alone.
Joachim had his fingers in the consulting industry long before founding OCCON. Everything to do with chemistry and advice on transport purchasing are among his areas of expertise.
Methodologically and strategically very strong, he is largely responsible for ensuring that even the most complex customer challenges are solved in such a way that you ask yourself why you didn’t think of it yourself.
What drives Joachim: Develop products for customers that make their lives easier – not just their jobs. For him, creating AHA moments to the partners’ daily plans is like a duck takes water and included in his 360° consulting service.
His hobbies? Pool billard & darts, smart financial strategies and travelling the world.
Director of Operations, IFCO SYSTEMS France S.A.S.
OCCON guided us in formulating a sourcing strategy responding to our needs and is coaching us to implement such.
Our sourcing project was so successful, that we initiated a project for our logistics needs.
Thanks to the OCCON competency and support, the new strategy & the implementation of operational excellence is again showing great, and most importantly, sustainable results.
It will be our pleasure to rely on OCCON also in future for our sourcing and logistics challenges.
CEO Koch-Chemie GmbH
Divisional Head Disposition & Freight, Symotion GmbH
With OCCON, our procurement organization has evolved to the next level. With their help we have been able to master volume growth and become a respected customer for our suppliers.
OCCON always challenges us and let us benefit from their experience - they always bring in other perspectives to shape the right strategy for all modes of transport.
With OCCON we can discuss new thoughts & approaches but also validate if new ideas fit to the market and can become successful.
We use their in-house developed e-sourcing solution u-tender which is able to cover complex rules and analysis. For example, capacity constraints play a big role for EuroChem: With u-tender we are able to optimise offered rates and capacity restrictions. Also, the targets for our negotiations are realistic due to the use of OCCON’s market knowledge.
Director Supply Chain Management
We get a lot of support from them for our decision-making process. This creates long-term value as it allows us finding and exploiting more opportunities for creating cost savings / avoidance.
Raw Materials & Supply Chain Manager
We appreciate very much their online platform u-tender, the market know-how and the reliable work of the entire OCCON team
Head of Global Purchasing Services, West Park Management Services GmbH - Triton Partners
Besides, OCCON helps us manage our data and digitalise our purchasing process with their e-sourcing solution u-tender.
Senior Global Buyer Manager – Transportation & Warehousing
We will continue hand in hand with them over the next few months to develop and implement their recommendations regarding concepts of logistics management and controlling, that will lead us to achieve the maximum degree of efficiency to continue being a benchmark in our sector.
Director, Grupo Fertiberia
Global Procurement Director, Packsize Technologies AB
In doing so, we always communicate openly and make sure that we present ourselves both creatively and seriously on the freight market. Together with Occon, we create sustainable added value in order to remain successful on the market with our ecological products in an increasingly complex world and to be able to offer our customers flawless logistics services.
Leiter Einkauf, Steinbeis Papier GmbH
With OCCON, our procurement organization has evolved to the next level. With their help we have been able to master volume growth and become a respected customer for our suppliers.
OCCON always challenges us and let us benefit from their experience - they always bring in other perspectives to shape the right strategy for all modes of transport.
With OCCON we can discuss new thoughts & approaches but also validate if new ideas fit to the market and can become successful.
We use their in-house developed e-sourcing solution u-tender which is able to cover complex rules and analysis. For example, capacity constraints play a big role for EuroChem: With u-tender we are able to optimise offered rates and capacity restrictions. Also, the targets for our negotiations are realistic due to the use of OCCON’s market knowledge.
Director Supply Chain Management
We get a lot of support from them for our decision-making process. This creates long-term value as it allows us finding and exploiting more opportunities for creating cost savings / avoidance.
Raw Materials & Supply Chain Manager
We appreciate very much their online platform u-tender, the market know-how and the reliable work of the entire OCCON team
Head of Global Purchasing Services, West Park Management Services GmbH - Triton Partners
Besides, OCCON helps us manage our data and digitalise our purchasing process with their e-sourcing solution u-tender.
Senior Global Buyer Manager – Transportation & Warehousing
We will continue hand in hand with them over the next few months to develop and implement their recommendations regarding concepts of logistics management and controlling, that will lead us to achieve the maximum degree of efficiency to continue being a benchmark in our sector.
Director, Grupo Fertiberia
Global Procurement Director, Packsize Technologies AB
In doing so, we always communicate openly and make sure that we present ourselves both creatively and seriously on the freight market. Together with Occon, we create sustainable added value in order to remain successful on the market with our ecological products in an increasingly complex world and to be able to offer our customers flawless logistics services.
Head of Procurement, Steinbeis Papier GmbH
Our performance? Clearly: your satisfaction.
We always advise our customers as if it were our own company. Your unbeatable advantage: With our in-house eSourcing tool u-tender we increase your operational efficiency! In plain language: You save hundreds of hours of work time and free up completely new capacities for tactical, strategic and operational tasks!
CONSULTING
Experience of 10: Our experts become yours.
Strategies that can be implemented immediately:
Long-term positive results
Change management:
We get the entire team on board
Clear communication:
Everyone on the same page, everyone pulling in the same direction
Digitalization
by u-tender
Flexible:
Data collection, tenders, analysis & contract management
Almost too easy to be true
Extremely easy to use
Complex things at a glance:
Always keep an eye on your KPIs
Process-oriented: 
adapts to you, not the other way around
Your extended workbench
We love service:
We are at your side for every challenge
No stress: We are here to make your everyday life easier
Process outsourcing:
We are not just consultants, we are partners
Key contacts:
Trust and quality are included
A few success stories.
Or: get a taste of our cooperation.
Sector: agrochemicals
Service level: Consulting
Annual turnover: EUR 1.2 billion
Customer since: 2013
The challenge:
High transport due to decentralised purchasing organisation.
The goal:
Potential analysis & blueprint to optimise the entire transport purchasing organisation and subsequent implementation.
The solution:
- Definition of best-in-class processes
- Centralisation of purchasing
- Data analysis & optimisation of data quality
- Stakeholder interviews
- Involvement of management & team in the change process
The result:
- Cost savings and long-term fair market prices for all modes of transport
- Optimum setup of the purchasing organisation in order to be able to react to market changes at short notice
Sector: Private Equity
Service level: Consulting, u-tender
Annual turnover: EUR 18.1 billion
Customer since: 2013
The challenge:
Insufficient focus on logistics purchasing, lack of expertise and bottlenecks in specialist staff.
The goal:
The implementation and implementation of a market-oriented purchasing process in order to remain competitive.
The solution:
- Definition of requirements and award rules
- Optimisation of data quality & analysis of scenarios
- Preparation & execution of the purchasing process by OCCON
- Implementation of u-tender (own eSourcing tool)
- Service provider management
- Assistance in important negotiations
- Complete planning and execution of strategy and implementation
The result:
- Harvesting savings potentials (often in the 2-digit percentage range)
- OCCON advice and service as part of the purchasing organisation
Sector: FMCG
Service level: Consulting, u-tender
Annual turnover: EUR 22 billion
Customer since: 2011
The challenge:
Resource bottlenecks due to weekly demands from 62 local units that had to be tendered and awarded centrally.
The goal:
Outsourcing of the entire purchasing process in order to save internal capacities and free up resources for other fields.
The solution:
- Preparation & execution of the purchasing process by OCCON
- Implementation of u-tender (own eSourcing tool)
- Service provider management
- Definition of rules and requirements
- Ongoing data analysis and recommendations for action
The result:
- Global market penetration
- Securing capacities at current market conditions
- Flexible organisation by outsourcing to OCCON
Sector: Automotive
Service level: Consulting, u-tender, Workbench
Annual turnover: 240 Mrd. EUR
Customer since: 2008
The challenge:
Global stakeholders and high demands on logistics as there is a direct link with the production schedule.
The goal:
Collect requirements and centralise highly complex tenders using an eSourcing platform. Also: increase data quality and thus transparency at the same time.
The solution:
- Definition of rules and templates for logistics
- Digital implementation of complex rules to automatically calculate capacities, KPIs, scores and TDC
- Overall optimisation of the process based on the improved data situation and transparency
The result:
- Fact-based decisions based on total supply chain costs
- OCCON as a knowledge keeper in a geographically and hierarchically complex organisation
A selection of customers who already enjoy smooth logistics operations:
Ready for leaner processes along the supply chain? This is how we come together.
Our promise: At OCCON there is nothing off-the-shelf. We are listening!
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GETTING ACQUAINTED
We develop individual solutions for all our customers. In order to do the same for you, we should get to know each other.
Simply click on the button and secure an appointment with Sabrina or Joachim.
Your invest: 20 Minutes
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STRATEGY CONVERSATION
Did the first meeting suit your taste?
Excellent! Based on your challenges we develop initial solutions to challenges and discuss and refine them in an initial strategy meeting.
Your invest: 60 Minutes
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Individual offer
We will develop an offer for you that is tailored to your challenges and wishes. In addition to a precise service description and a project schedule, you will also receive an exact overview of the required resources.
Offer period: one week
Your invest: : 30 Minutes
By the way: If a pilot project is an option for a first collaboration, we will be happy to make a separate offer!
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Project start
As a rule, the project can start two weeks after the first meeting.
Your invest: we do most of the work
FAQs
How long does the offer phase last?
The preparation of an offer takes different times. We design the offers for our customers individually. You will receive an estimate of the duration directly from your contact person before the offer is made.
Who takes care of my project?
Your project will be managed by a permanent contact person, project manager or a project employee. Always available for you: our managing directors! Especially with new projects, they are more involved than usual.
How long does a project with OCCON take?
The duration of a project depends entirely on your needs and the challenges. Project times in the consulting area are usually between one and six months. In the area of purchasing, an average project lasts around three months.
How quickly can a project start?
Your project can be started immediately after placing the order.
What are the project costs at OCCON?
At OCCON there is no exhaustive price list. We usually calculate our offers on the basis of the effort involved. Should there be a desire for a success-based solution, we are happy to discuss this.
What happens if my project manager is on vacation or ill?
We always have a qualified backup.
Does OCCON have locations in Asia / USA?
No, but that doesn’t pose a problem for projects. It doesn’t matter whether it’s about project management or tool support. At OCCON, all projects have always been international. We work seamlessly with all continents and are an efficient and well-established team when it comes to workflows.
In which languages can I get advice from OCCON?
We advise and support our customers in English, German, Spanish and Turkish.
Does OCCON also offer sea, air or road tenders?
Yes! We are experts in logistics and cover all modes of transport and commodities for our customers (whether sea, air, barge, short sea, rail, packaging material, raw materials or warehouses)
How long does a tender take?
On average, tenders take three months.
Locations
Corporate Headquarter Office
Ludwigshafen, Germany
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Address:
OCCON GmbH
Schillerplatz 12-14
67071 Ludwigshafen am Rhein
Germany
OCCON Business Innovation Centre
Mannheim, Germany
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Address:
OCCON GmbH
O4, 7
68161 Mannheim
Germany
Riga Office
Riga, Latvia
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Address:
OCCON SIA
Alauksta iela 9-59
LV-1009
Riga
Latvia
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