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Consulting for more efficiency in production and logistics

Awarded Best Management Consultants Germany

Tailored solutions for all industries

In 2025, our clients and brand eins have again awarded us as the best consultants in the sectors “Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals”, “Aerospace and Defense”, “Mechanical and Plant Engineering”, “Transport, Traffic and Logistics” and for the consulting fields “Digitalization” and “Operations Management”.

Contact us for a non-binding initial consultation on operational excellence, production and logistics planning, factory planning and supply chain management, digitalization and automation.

How we support our customers

Efficiency in production and logistics

Since our foundation almost 40 years ago, we have developed more than 4,000 solutions for over 800 national and international companies. Our clients from different industries include large corporations, SMEs and start-ups from various industries. The range of our services covers operational excellence, supply-chain-management, factory planning and production planning.

Staying competitive with digital technologies

Digitalization and automation of production and logistics

We follow the principle of smart digitalization and automation. This allows us to establish and permanently anchor digital solutions in an agile, fast and customized manner. Our Quick-Check to determine the digital maturity level provides a practical overview of the potential for digitalization and automation in your company.

Cost-cutting measures for manufacturing companies

How can companies reduce production costs and optimize costs throughout the company?

At ifp consulting, we see the topic of cost-cutting measures as a strategic lever to to secure the future viability, competitiveness and resilience of manufacturing companies in the long term.

With advice from ifp consulting, you achieve fast and measurable results

We create transparency and leverage optimization potential

At ifp consulting, we start every project with a clear goal: to quickly create transparency and deliver measurable results. Instead of lengthy analyses, we rely on a structured approach that quickly provides clarity about your current performance. In this way, we not only identify weak points, but also point out specific optimization potential: These range from short-term quick wins to sustainable improvements. Together with your team, we develop solutions that have an impact and ensure your long-term competitiveness.

  • Performance Assessment

With the proven performance assessment, the consultants at ifp consulting analyze the current performance of the entire value chain in record time.

  • Benchmarks & Best Practice

Optimization potential becomes immediately visible through structured benchmarks and best-practice comparisons. The potential can then be leveraged directly and quickly in the form of quick wins.

  • Focus on profitability

At ifp consulting, we pursue a holistic and structured consulting approach. Our methods optimize processes and at the same time make them transparent, scalable and future-proof.

  • Our hands-on mindset

ifp consulting not only focuses on analysis, but also on implementation-oriented consulting. Our solutions are geared to the individual situation of our customers and can be implemented quickly.

P&L relevant cost reduction measures

Reduce costs, secure the future

Sustainable cost reduction begins with measures that actually have an impact on the profit and loss account. With the ifp consulting 3-step process for effective cost reduction, we leverage the optimization potential in your company: From the performance quick check to the definition of measures, business case and implementation roadmap. There are many ways to reduce costs: Optimizing production costs, reducing logistics and material costs and optimizing value creation. In addition, we offer the integrated Cost Optimization Program (iCOP), developed jointly with Siventus, with which costs can be successfully and sustainably reduced throughout the entire company.

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Clients who trust us

Customer references and use cases

Whether production optimization, increasing efficiency, industrial engineering or digital transformation – the challenges in the manufacturing industry are often similar, even if each production facility has its own individual requirements. In our references and use cases, we show how we have developed customized solutions together with our customers – from the analysis of the initial situation to successful implementation. Discover real project examples that provide insights into initial situations, solutions and results achieved and how we were able to help with our consulting as well as what our customers say about their collaboration with ifp consulting.

Customer testimonials

What our customers say about us

Peter Schachinger

Liebherr-Werk Bischofshofen GmbH

“Together with ifp consulting, we were able to develop a new and future-proof concept for our production. ifp consulting is the perfect partner for developing our steel construction strategy, optimizing existing processes and designing a visionary factory of the future.”

Gerhard Schwarz

Knorr-Bremse Aldersbach

“We needed external specialists to review an existing rough plan and use their expert perspective to look at some of the areas that we had critically scrutinized and improve them with their specialist knowledge. We found the perfect sparring partner for this task in ifp consulting.”

Jean Marc Butin

ArcelorMittal Downstream Solutions

“ifp consulting provided a customized, well-structured and efficient approach to achieve a “breakthrough” improvement. The experience and in-depth background of ifp consulting was a success factor in sustainably improving the performance of the lines and facilities.”

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Whitepaper with expert tips from our consulting practice

Our whitepapers offer concrete approaches for implementing improvement measures in production and logistics. You can download them here free of charge. You are also welcome to contact us for a non-binding initial consultation.

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Holistic factory planning with BIM

BIM is a proven method in the construction industry and is ideal for innovative and efficient factory planning.

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Operational excellence for your production

Operational excellence is the basis for the optimal performance of manufacturing companies and requires a holistic approach.

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Supply chain excellence and SC resilience

Effective supply chain management reduces costs, improves quality and increases customer satisfaction.

ifp consulting Beratung für Erfolg in der Digitalen Transformation: Despite high investments, many digital transformation projects fail. This is why new, lean and quickly implementable strategies for digitalization are needed - especially for SMEs. This white paper shows how manufacturing companies can gradually but systematically secure their future viability with a clearly structured digitalization strategy that builds on one another.

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Smart strategies for the digital transformation

Don’t wait until the competitive pressure becomes too great. We can help with a digitalization strategy that can be implemented quickly.

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