Global competition never rests, companies around the globe are constantly on the move to optimize production processes and service levels. The pressure of competition keeps growing every day in form of cost squeezes, shorter lead times, greater flexibility. Therefore, the need to innovate to meet increasingly specialized customer requirements is stronger than ever. To meet these global challenges, purchasing clearly has a key role to play in the performance of a company as an important link in the value chain. This means that a well-defined purchasing strategy is one of the pillars of corporate success.

As a project developer and trading firm of physical goods, we offer sourcing and development of standard as well as customized commodities and goods, which are critical to vehicle safety, energy production etc. This requires much more than simply locating specific materials or services that our customers need for their value chain. It is essential for us and a given fact that we make no compromises, when it comes to quality. We are extremely careful in our selection of partners, and we also make substantial investments in their development. At the same time it is necessary to build a logistics concept that ensures an optimal flow of materials, taking into account factors such as availability, stocks, flexibility, lead times,transportation costs and financing. All those aspects together ultimately determine the success of sourcing.