About OCM
OCM Management Consultants is a management consultancy specialised in modern procurement consulting, supply chain management, and logistics optimisation. In times of globalisation, increasing scarcity of resources, and digitalisation, we help our customers generate competitive advantages through cost optimisation, improved efficiency, and sustainability, thus increasing the value of the company.
Why OCM
As a specialist in cost optimisation and efficiency improvement in procurement, logistics, and supply chain management, we deliver concrete, measurable results through performance-based compensation. OCM combines expertise and innovation, qualities which our passionate consultants use to address the challenges of our clients
Competence & Industry Experience
- Over 10 years of experience in procurement, supply chain and logistics optimisation both within consulting and in industry
- More than 40 cross-sector client projects with up to 15 consultants in a German & international environment
- Opportunity assessment, conception, transformation and sustainable value creation - we support you during project phases
Expertise & innovation – consulting that works
- Best-in-class methods, contents and concepts from purchasing, logistics and supply chain consulting
- A combination of digital innovation, modern project methods and functional expertise in our project modules
- Solutions that actually work due to customer-specific adaptation to the situation and market
OCM People & DNA
- Your problem, our problem” is OCM’s core company value from hiring our people to executing our projects
- We engage with your people working side-by-side to turn those affected to become involved and sustain results
- We solely define ourselves through the added value, solved problems and our client’s satisfaction with our work
Value add guarantee & measurable results
- Hard measurable, monetary and qualitative results
- Milestone based project delivery
- We offer compensation based on performance, success or effort
- Multiple project financing options: cash flow neutral, budget-regulated, etc
Our Values
Your problem, our problem
We are problem solvers and optimisers. We make our client’s challenges our own. With the perspective of an entrepreneur or business owner, we take responsibility and always strive for the best possible results. We commit fully and dare to break new ground in order to find and implement the most appropriate and sustainable solutions.
Be curious and innovate
We are driven by curiosity and the desire to learn. We want to better ourselves every day, and actively shape the changes of our time. Innovation, passion, and receptiveness to new ideas allow us to offer up to the minute services and solutions.
Be authentic - play for the team
We are team players. Helpful and down-to-earth, we always keep the common goal at the forefront of our minds. The power of discussion replaces hierarchies – we talk openly and honestly. Trust, empathy, and authenticity are the values that underpin our actions, our demeanour, and our desire to collaborate.
Challenge - Commit – Deliver
Challenge: We strongly believe that the best ideas come from dialogue and the exchange of ideas. We therefore encourage everyone who works with us to bring forward ideas (thesis), to challenge these ideas (antithesis), and thus contribute to the optimum solution (synthesis).
Commit: We do everything in our power to guide our clients on a path to success. Even the best solutions are ineffective without the support of everyone involved.
Deliver: Our commitment applies not only to the present moment, but to the actual, sustainable implementation of a successful solution!
Simplicity
If you can’t explain something simply, you haven’t understood it – one of our most essential mottos! We want to convince with results, solved problems, and added value – nothing else!
An obsession with improvement
To see how an improvement is developed, is implemented, and then helps our clients achieve their goals motivates us and brings us great pride. Setting ambitious goals every day and measuring ourselves against the highest standards engenders our aspirations and drives us to strive for excellence.
Management Team
Florian Dederichs
Founder & Partner
Florian is the founder of OCM Management Consultants. He is an expert in cost optimisation and efficiency improvement through strategic procurement, supply chain management, and logistics optimisation.
Before founding OCM, Florian worked for 4 years for Efficio Consulting and for 2 years as a freelance management consultant on national and international projects. He holds an M.Sc. in Business Administration Finance & SCM and B.Sc. from the University of Cologne and speaks German, English and Spanish.
With the experience gained from numerous cross-industry and international procurement and logistics projects, Florian supports clients primarily in the areas of profit maximisation, cost optimisation, organisational and process transformation, and digitalisation.
Clemens Rinnebach
Partner
Clemens is an expert in the areas of strategic procurement and supply chain management. His career is characterized by a variety of management positions and profound industry expertise.
After starting his career in engineering at Motorola, he began his consulting career at the Boston Consulting Group and A.T. Kearney, followed by strategic leadership roles in procurement and supply chain management at Siemens AG, Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG and Allgeier SE. Before joining OCM, Clemens gained extensive experience as an independent consultant and interim manager and founded Emarticon, a network of experts that continues to exist as a contact point for purchasing & SCM experts.
His expertise ranges from cost reduction, contract negotiations, process optimization, global sourcing, outsourcing and IT sourcing to digitalization and sustainability in procurement and supply chain management. With his international experience in transformation projects as well as his management responsibility in corporate and medium-sized companies, Clemens is a valued consultant for companies of various sizes and from a broad range of industries.
Our Consulting approach
We offer support in 3 phases across the project life cycle: from the identification and evaluation of opportunities, through the strategy formulation and project execution, to the sustainable implementation and control of the fully realised opportunities.
Together with you, we can tailor the intensity, scope, and the respective phases of OCM involvement according to your goals and needs.
You reach your actual potential
- As-is analysis & benchmarking
- Prioritisation & identification of critical improvement levers
- Concrete implementation plan
Design and realisation of strategy and opportunities
- Realisation of savings and optimisation opportunities
- Best practices, know-how, & fast implementation
- Training & coaching of the new approaches and methods in your organisation
Sustainable implementation in your organisation
- Permanent embedding of the results
- Explicit handover of responsibility to those responsible in your organisation
- Transparent contribution to EBIT
