Studies

„In what direc­tion is pro­cu­re­ment going and at what speed?“ This was one of the big ques­ti­ons at this year’s World Pro­cu­re­ment Con­gress. „Speed is a ques­ti­on of direc­tion,“ said Nan­di­ni Bas­ut­ha­kur, CEO of Pro­cu­re­ment Lea­ders, during her ope­ning speech at the Con­gress. The ans­wer was fier­ce­ly deba­ted at the two-day event, which focu­sed on fin­ding ways in which func­tion can pro­vi­de a com­pe­ti­ti­ve advan­ta­ge in a fast-paced world.

A few weeks ago, the Cali­for­nia Sta­te of Motor Vehi­cles published the latest series of dis­en­ga­ge­ment reports from tho­se com­pa­nies tes­ting auto­no­mous vehi­cle in the sta­te. Over­all, the num­bers paint a pic­tu­re of decrea­sing dis­en­ga­ge­ments – and con­se­quent­ly an impro­ving tech­no­lo­gy?!

20.02.2019 – Hal­der has acqui­red a majo­ri­ty sta­ke in the Conen Group, Mor­bach. The invest­ment in Conen is the first invest­ment of the Hal­der VI fund, which com­ple­ted its capi­tal rai­sing in Janu­ary 2019. h&z sup­por­ted Hal­der in the com­mer­ci­al due dili­gence.

Hans-Mar­tin Lau­er is an engi­neer, con­sul­tant and – sin­ce the begin­ning of the year – a Princi­pal at h&z. He loves to find out why pro­jects, things, and devices don’t work, and to fix them so they work even bet­ter than befo­re – both pro­fes­sio­nal­ly and pri­va­te­ly.

Pro­cu­re­ment Lea­ders ist ein welt­weit agie­ren­des Netz­werk. Es lie­fert Ein­käu­fern in Unter­neh­men Ana­ly­sen, Tools und Wis­sen. h&z gehört zu sei­nen Unter­stüt­zern und Share­hol­dern. Ein Gespräch.

For years, On Demand Mobi­li­ty and Ride-Hai­ling ser­vices have been hyped as the solu­ti­on for many of the com­mon urban mobi­li­ty pro­blems. The for­mu­la is simp­le: sha­red and on-demand usa­ge of trans­por­ta­ti­on means will signi­fi­cant­ly decrea­se the total num­ber of vehi­cles nee­ded and thus destress the con­ge­sted urban infra­st­ruc­tu­re. Quick­ly, urban plan­ners star­ted to envi­si­on sce­n­a­ri­os of seam­less jour­neys in con­nec­ted, per­so­na­li­zed, yet sha­red vehi­cles without traf­fic jams and mini­mal envi­ron­men­tal and socie­tal impact.

The „Trans­for­ma­ti­on Alli­an­ce“ is cele­bra­ting its 10th anni­ver­s­a­ry and is cur­r­ent­ly recei­ving a new boost from the young con­sul­tants based in the offices of its three part­ner con­sul­tan­ci­es in Munich, Paris and Milan. The so-cal­led Young Alli­an­ce has esta­blished its­elf wit­hin the Trans­for­ma­ti­on Alli­an­ce as a high­ly credi­ble group of young con­sul­tants to net­work and to keep in touch.

The past few mon­ths have seen big chan­ges to the Manage­ment Board of h&z with a view to lea­ding the com­pa­ny into an even brigh­ter the future. Rai­ner Hoff­mann and Dr Tho­mas Zach­au, the ori­gi­nal foun­ders, have moved to the Super­vi­so­ry Board and will con­ti­nue to work actively as part­ners, while Ste­fan Aich­bau­er, Micha­el San­to and long-stan­ding part­ner Harald Enz are new to the Manage­ment Board. In this inter­view we get the views of Mr Enz on what the­se chan­ges mean.

Fur­t­her edu­ca­ti­on across all bor­ders with employees from dif­fe­rent cul­tures – this is a chal­len­ge com­pa­nies with a glo­bal foot­print are facing today. The h&z Aca­de­my has shown at an inter­na­tio­nal cor­po­ra­ti­on how qua­li­fi­ca­ti­on „by com­mit­ment“ works today.

She play­ed for the natio­nal youth team, FC Bay­ern and Tur­bi­ne Pots­dam. Today, Ste­fa­nie Mir­lach works as a con­sul­tant at h&z and uses many of the skills she has acqui­red as a pro­fes­sio­nal ath­le­te.

Get gre­at insights in the Aero­space indus­try and take the chan­ce to be inspi­red by best prac­tices and dis­cuss the cur­rent topics with other indus­try experts. Our h&z Round Table will pro­vi­de key­note speakers, SCM experts, dis­cus­sions & working groups.

Sil­ver­fleet Capi­tal invests in lea­ding Euro­pean resin manu­fac­tu­rer Pre­fe­re Resins. h&z sup­por­ted in the Ope­ra­tio­nal Due Dili­gence.

How com­pe­ti­ti­ve is the Euro­pean aero­space sup­plier indus­try?

The h&z Aca­de­my offers com­pa­nies a com­pre­hen­si­ve port­fo­lio of modu­lar learning for­mats: from digi­tal­ly sup­por­ted trai­ning needs ana­ly­sis to dia­lo­gue-ori­en­ted face-to-face for­mats and intel­li­gent e-learning tools all the way to intui­ti­ve / crea­ti­ve ele­ments.

400 guests inclu­ding many cli­ents and fri­ends from the exten­ded h&z fami­ly cele­bra­ted 20 years of h&z at the Isar­post in Munich.

Hea­ted dis­cus­sion around the offi­ci­al pre­sen­ta­ti­on of the new h&z book „Pro­cu­re­ment 4.0 – A sur­vi­val gui­de in a digi­tal, dis­rup­ti­ve world“ at the Palais Han­sen in Vien­na.