
Procurement of Consultants
"as a service"
Our services and expertise for procuring consulting services focus on the entire procurement process and the most important “levers” that significantly impact the performance of consulting companies and the results of consulting projects.
Navigating strategy in a changing world
Defining a firm’s strategy without a clear grasp of geopolitical developments and associated risks is no longer viable.
Geopolitics is a key driver of geoeconomic and societal dynamics at the macro level — and shapes a company’s growth, stability, and strategic options at the firm level.
Den Einkauf als strategischen Partner etablieren
Sourcing Playbook mit 7 konkreten, pragmatischen Handlungsempfehlungen

Services
Cardea unterstützt den Einkauf als Sparringpartner in allen Fragen der Procurement Excellence für Beratungsleistungen – oder modular bei der konkreten, projektspezifischen Beschaffung

Sparring Partner
Begleitung in allen Fragen der Procurement Excellence

Modulare Unterstützung
-Projektspezifische Beschaffung nach Bedarf

Verängerte Werkbank
-Ressourcen, auf die der Einkauf jederzeit zugreifen kann
Von der Kosten- zur Wert-Logik im Einkauf: Nutzen Sie Impulse, Best Practices und die pragmatische Unterstützung von Cardea


01
Impuls-Workshop
Trends im Beratungsmarkt. (aktuelle Studien), Trends und Entwicklungen aus Angebots- und Nachfrage-Perspektive
03
Delivery Workshops "Fit for the Future"-Module
einzeln buchbare, anpassbare Modul-Inhalte
- Ausgewogenes Lieferanten Portfolio - mit relevanten und geeigneten Umsetzungspartnern
- Umgang mit KI gestützten Beratungsangeboten
- Neue Pricing-Modelle und Value-Based Leistungspakete
- Beraterauswahl: Best Match und moderne Auswahlkriterien
- Projektcontrolling und Performance Messung
02
Assessment-Workshop
Outside-In Perspektive auf Reifegrad/ Status Quo
Stärken/ Capabilities
Initiale Handlungsempfehlungen und Roadmap
Products & Services
We help purchasing managers maximize their added value and minimize the time required for tenders for consulting services: By creating comparability in the consulting market, by helping to identify offers with the best price-performance ratio and by significantly increasing the project success rate through optimal matching between project requirements and consulting services.
We provide comparability in the consulting market, help to identify offers with the best price-performance ratio and to significantly increase the project success rate through optimal matching between project requirements and consulting services.
ZIELGRÖSSEN

10% plus
Die Auswahl des richtigen Beratungsunternehmens und das Teamstaffing haben einen signifikanten Effekt auf die Projekterfolgsrate und Projektzielerreichung.

30% - 60%
Einsparung an Beraterkosten durch optimales Matching der Erfahrungen der Berater und Identifikation der Angebote mit dem besten Preis-/Leistungsverhältnis.

50% - 70%
Zeit- und Aufwandsersparnis durch Outtasking des Ausschreibungs- und Evaluationsprozesses beim Einkauf von Beratungsleistungen.
Reliable selection of consultants
PROCUREMENT "AS A SERVICE"

We work as an "extended workbench" and help
purchasing organizations to respond quickly and appropriately to the needs of their internal customers.
We help to overcome capacity bottlenecks and
know-how gaps with targeted market screening for specific consulting requirements, efficient compilation of suitable consulting companies and rapid access to alternative management consultancies and comparative offers or by taking on tenders and evaluations.
PROCUREMENT STRATEGY & PROCESSES

When it comes to defining and implementing suitable procurement strategies for purchasing consulting services or designing and optimizing procurement processes (supplier identification, supplier evaluation, matching), we offer a wide range of best practice experience to make your purchasing organization efficient and effective and to enable you to increase the added value of purchasing services in your company.
SUPPLIER MANAGEMENT

We support you in evaluating the accuracy and quality of your existing pool of consulting service providers and in optimizing your supplier portfolio with regard to the number, completeness and coverage of required competencies, including the definition of product groups (procurement categories) and the screening and selection of potential preferred suppliers.
PERFORMANCE
MEASUREMENT

Whether you want to measure the current and past performance of your consultants and projects, identify and manage inadequate performance and project risks in good time or evaluate, benchmark and manage your supplier portfolio/your providers of consulting services, we have the right solutions for measuring the performance of consultants and helping you to control your return on consulting.
Experience with various consulting fields & topics

Strategy consulting
Whether innovation and growth topics, strategy development and implementation, digitalization, transformation, organizational development, restructuring or process optimization. We find the right consultant or expert for your project.

Operations & Functional advice
Whether production, supply chain, marketing & sales, PR & communications, purchasing or supporting functions such as finance & controlling, IT, legal or HR. We find the right consultant or expert for your project.

Technology & IT consulting
Whether digitalization, big data & analytics, IT strategy, IT service management, IT business alignment, IT architectures, IT governance, software development, UX design or system integration and implementation. We find the right consultant or expert for your project.

HR Consulting & People management
Whether HR strategies & -operations, employer branding, HR analytics, communications & cultural change, talent management, leadership or management training, employee training or coaching. We find the right consultant or expert for your project.
