Steinbeis Consulting Center Concepts and Solutions for Medium-Sized Businesses

Business consulting and hands-on assistance with the implementation of benchmarks

• Business analysis
• Comprehensive business analysis and expert reports
• Brief analysis and expert reports on individual issues
• Certified rating consulting

• Assistance with operational issues
• Sales support
• Interim management
• Assistance with company management
• Restructuring of company finances

Recruiting of personnel

• Assistance with recruiting of skilled workers and managers for companies
• Employment assistance for skilled workers and managers

Within business consulting

• Crisis management
• Turnarounds
• Reorganization
• Liquidity bottlenecks

• Growth
• Strategy development/business planning
• Marketing and sales strategy
• Investment financing

• Coaching
• Bank meetings
• External business monitoring
• Management shortages, interim management
• Preparation of bank rating
• Successors, sales and marketing

• Optimization
• Business financing
• Cost reduction
• Transparency of results
• Sales processes and procedures
• Setup of control systems

Within human resources

• Employer: applicant search and selection and selective presentation of high quality specialists and managers. We look for the most suitable candidates across Germany and take over the complete process of employee selection. This saves the company time and money.

• Applicants: analysis of potential, approaching employers, coaching and presentation. Applicants are put in contact with suitable companies according to their designated profiles and requirements. An anonymous company meeting is set up so that applicants who have not yet resigned their position can consider other options without breaching confidentialities.

Business consulting

• Manufacturers and suppliers from the automotive industry
• Problem: fast business growth without adapting existing company or financial structures
• Solution: separate project financing through banks, expansion and adaptation of control mechanisms, strengthening of marketing structures, sales management assistance at the management level

• Large service providers from ancillary construction trades (such as sanitary and electric installation)
• Problem: worrying performance and liquidity, lack of inventory management and management accounting mechanisms, confusing business structures
• Solution: separation of business areas, departmental task definition, introduction of management accounting and inventory management, improved access to cash at bank

Human resources

• Commissioned by business: search and placement of a sales professional with international background for a company operating in the automotive market and ancillary construction throughout Germany

• Commissioned by applicant: placement of a supply chain manager (logistics manager) at an international manufacturing company in the area of sun protection

Industries

• Automotive
• Construction
• Ancillary construction
• Electronics
• Retail and wholesale
• Food and beverage industry (patents)
• Logistics
• Machinery and plant engineering
• Textiles
• Environment and recycling

Steinbeis Transfer Magazine

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