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Digital procurement and supply chain transformation refers to the use of digital technologies and data to optimize and streamline the end-to-end processes involved in the sourcing, procurement, manufacturing, and distribution of goods and services. This can include the use of advanced analytics, automation, artificial intelligence, and blockchain to improve visibility, efficiency, and collaboration across the supply chain.
Sustainable procurement and supply chain transformation involves integrating sustainability principles into the supply chain and procurement processes to minimize environmental impact, promote ethical practices, and create long-term value for all stakeholders. This can include using renewable energy, reducing waste and emissions, promoting fair labor practices, and sourcing materials and products from socially responsible suppliers. The goal is to create a more sustainable and resilient supply chain that supports environmental and social objectives while also driving business success.
The Digital and Sustainable Transformation are referred to as the "TWIN Transformation" because of the many intersections. The TWIN Transformation recognizes that technology and data offer huge and largely untapped potential to advance sustainability goals.
TWIN transformation of procurement and supply chain practices are essential for businesses that want to operate efficiently, responsibly, and sustainably, while also meeting the expectations of customers, investors, and other stakeholders.
IPG’s deep expertise in Global Footprint & Operating Model redesign proved highly valuable. Another key success factor was the close integration with our organization, combined with a pragmatic, results-oriented approach. Within months, a clear roadmap was created and full management alignment was achieved.
On the path to our new strategy, we asked key questions about market trends, their pace of development, and how we wanted to position our future offering. Clear and pragmatic answers emerged through a collaborative process that combined forward-thinking ideas with broad organizational input. IPG’s approach, together with its senior consultants, made a decisive contribution to our development.
We appreciate IPG’s guidance in our transformation toward DIGITAL FITNESS. Through a broad-based initiative, we identified significant efficiency potential within our organization and defined future solutions for company-wide JOST process management.
IPG’s deep expertise in Strategy & Business Model Innovation proved highly valuable. Another key success factor was the close collaboration with our organization, combined with a pragmatic, results-oriented approach. Within months, a clear roadmap was established and full management alignment was secured.
IPG is a reliable partner in strategy development and implementation. They take the time to involve all stakeholders in the process. Also they have excellent research capabilities that are highly flexible, allowing us to pursue an agile and fast strategy development process. Beyond formulating the strategy, IPG works with stakeholders across the organization to aid implementation, too.
Within just a few weeks, we identified key improvement potential using IPG’s benchmarking approach, developed a clear roadmap, and secured full alignment from our Global Supply Chain Management team. Especially valuable was IPG’s trend analysis, which highlighted important market drivers that will shape our supply chain strategy in the years ahead.
DIGITAL FITNESS along our entire JOST value creation process is a key success factor for us.
Together with IPG, we were able to uncover important efficiency potential in purchasing, supply chain and production and define valuable focal points for future digital solutions in company-wide JOST process management.
We are driving forward the strategic expansion of our purchasing and supply chain function with high priority. With IPG’s guidance, we have been able to create important prerequisites for further increasing our unit's value contribution to the company's success in the future and initiating the transformation toward digitalization and sustainability.
As recognized Thought Leader and Co-Creator for innovation with an impressive track record in the digital transformation of leading companies, IPG's expertise within the Swiss national INDUSTRIE 2025 initiative, especially with regards to the development of unique digital business models, is highly appreciated!
IPG has helped a lot to focus on creating something really new instead of letting the same thing become more intense. Together with IPG, we have managed to design a fully connected & harmonized operating model and cross-regional shared functions to leverage both our size as well as our expertise. As key result we thereby substantially increased our sales efficiency and productivity.
Thanks to IPG's open innovation approach, we have received interesting solution ideas for our open questions. This gave us fresh ideas and interesting actual opportunities for the future.
As an internationally recognized think tank and consultancy for technology and innovation management, we value IPG as a strategic partner in expanding our Science-Technology Park. We also benefit from IPG’s strong supply chain expertise in developing and identifying highly qualified suppliers for our customers.
The strategic expansion of our commodity group management is a top priority for SBB. With the support of Carsten Vollrath and his team, we were able to realize important steps in expanding our methodological expertise and in deriving commodity group-specific optimization levers and sustainable procurement strategies.
As an international think tank and top management consultancy with a relevant track record in the digital transformation of many companies, IPG's expertise is highly appreciated within the dialogue with leading Swiss purchasing organizations to expand their digitalization competence!
Digital procurement is a central field of training for us, in which the BME already plays a leading role. We are proud to have won IPG as a strategic partner for the further expansion of our training program. With IPG's relevant innovation and digitization competence, we offer German procurement organizations a first-class range of services to systematically develop and expand their digital competencies.
IPG is one of the leading think tanks and management consultancies for the holistic transformation of procurement. With its strong innovation expertise, IPG serves as a strategic training partner for the systematic development of Procurement 4.0 competencies and the launch of pilot projects within Swiss companies.
IPG’s deep experience motivated us to investigate our current business model. Carsten Vollrath’s and his team members full commitment moved us further in building new complement digital business model. Our company's holistic vision has changed, first milestone of the project is done. IPG moved us in the process of digital brewing of our new business model, like the process of making the beer. Thanks to IPG we did START. Now we follow-UP.
In addition to intensive analyses on the market and customer side with IPG, the impulses from many external experts and potential development partners that IPG involved in our innovation work were trend-setting on our way from a classical machine manufacturer to a solution provider and strategic business partner for our customers.
The IPG Open Innovation approach has brought us new ideas and concrete solutions much faster, significantly increased our development productivity and integrated potential development suppliers into the process early on. The expectations we had placed in the project were exceeded.
We like to work with IPG because they not only have the skills of strategy consulting and facilitation, but also understand our medical and technical challenges due to their in-depth experience in healthcare.
IPG's deep experience in business model development and especially with regard to open innovation was very valuable. Through networked thinking, we were encouraged to embark on something truly new and to open up widely to explore concrete new offerings, business models and set cornerstones to our organization for a new growth area.
With his relevant experience in various industries, Carsten Vollrath and IPG are an important source of inspiration and sparring partner for us on the topic of "Transformation of the SBB Supply Chain in the Direction of Digitalization and Sustainability”.
When it comes to topics related to innovation and digitalization (AI, IoT, automation, etc), Carsten Vollrath and his team are a top address.
I greatly appreciate IPG’s guidance on the MNRS strategizing process in exploring a reimagination of our brand and our charity's business model. In this regards, IPG has given us such a powerful approach to scale and innovate how we deliver services to families in need.
IPG has helped us a lot in sharpening a common understanding of the topic of strategic procurement management across all purchasing units and raising the entire purchasing department to a new level of professionalism. The structural & cultural challenges in the organization associated with the necessary transformation were recognized early on and actively addressed.
IPG is one of the first addresses for supply chain transformation. For us, IPG is an ideal strategic partner not only as an initiator and pioneer, but also as a strategic implementation partner for innovative supply chain solutions and associated digital business models.
As recognized Thought Leader and Co-Creator for innovation with a long track record in the digital transformation of leading companies, IPG's expertise within the Swiss dialogue about digitalization and technology management (i.e. in the national INDUSTRIE 2025 initiative) especially with regards to the development of unique digital business models is highly appreciated!
On the way to our new order fulfillment organization, we harmonized the roles, tasks and competencies between the functions involved and established a common end-2-end process understanding. In the interplay between "thought ahead" and "agreed within the circle of stakeholders", the IPG approach has contributed decisively to our new setup and our collaborative approach.
IPG has made a strong contribution to our brand relaunch. Thanks to the collection and evaluation of hand-picked customer voices (voice of the customer), we were able to sharpen our positioning and strengthen our brand.
IPG’s expertise strongly supported the development of our integrated global Supply Chain & Procurement function aligned with the new Getinge Operating Model. Through a collaborative redesign process, IPG helped establish a new structure, governance model, and strong cross-functional alignment from the start.
We have had very good experiences with IPG and their Open Innovation approach. In a remarkably short time they have found and mobilized the right external experts. The results of the Open Innovation Workshops opened up new perspectives for us in the development of innovations and were therefore very valuable to us.
On behalf of the Chamber of Commerce, we express our satisfaction with the successful collaboration on the industrialization and digitalization of the Serbian economy. IPG’s expertise in digital transformation has been highly valued in shaping industrial policy strategy and supporting Serbia’s digital transformation initiatives.
In the comprehensive exchange of knowledge and the global networking of know-how from different areas and perspectives, we see IPG with the relevant industry 4.0 competence as a valuable partner and impulse generator for the further development of Smart Factory solutions.
Future based, disruptive and out of the box thinking. Those who want to shape the future learn methods and skills in the "Certified Digital Procurement Manager" (CDPM) certificate course.
In the "Certified Digital Procurement Manager" (CDPM) certificate course teach Top advisers, who make the red thread in the well-structured course structure clearly noticeable. The final thesis enables the immediate transfer into the daily business.
The "Certified Digital Procurement Manager" (CDPM) certificate course opens the perspective for the current way of working in purchasing and gives new perspectives for a sustainable purchasing organization. The interaction of theoretical basics, practical examples and the work with concrete use cases provides the participants with a suitable tool for the implementation in their own company.
The challenges of a future purchasing structure in Purchasing 4.0 are manifold and decisive. With the certificate course "Certified Digital Procurement Manager", IPG has laid the foundation for us to be able to plan and implement a market-driven & strategic development at an early stage. The methods imparted are innovative and show a trend-setting analysis of upcoming necessities.
My expectations of the "Certified Digital Procurement Manager" (CDPM) certificate course in terms of content, quality and speakers were exceeded. Despite the packed six days, there was no shortage of group work; the class size was ideal for this. In each module we were able to practice the topics in a practical way and at the end we could embed them in the individual case study. I can use this "one to one" in my daily business.
As one of the first classes to be allowed to complete the majority of the "Certified Digital Procurement Manager" (CDPM) certificate course online, the need for digitization was clearly demonstrated to us. Thanks to the exciting modules and the practical case studies, taking into account the entire value chain, my view was sharpened to think and act in digital processes.
