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Our Consulting Services

International boutique management consulting firm based in Munich

Nine key consulting areas and over 1,000 successful projects: Since 2007, KBC has been supporting companies worldwide not only with innovative consulting approaches, but above all in their successful implementation. From supply chain management to product development to data and AI—as an international boutique consulting firm with offices in Munich and Charlotte (USA), we support companies and organizations in complex industries such as automotive, technology, and aviation.

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How KBC Helps Your Business Grow

A boutique management consulting firm that delivers results

For two decades, we have been supporting projects across the entire value chain as a German management consulting firm with offices in Munich and Charlotte, North Carolina. For each project, we carefully assemble a consulting team based on industry expertise and areas of specialization. This ensures that your project doesn’t remain on paper but delivers measurable results in your day-to-day operations. 

As a partner-led management consulting firm, we work with multinational corporations and leading mid-sized companies. Our approach as a boutique consulting firm shapes every project: Instead of relying on standard PowerPoint presentations and templates, we constantly take a fresh look at your challenges. This results in successful solutions that are precisely tailored to your structures, circumstances, and goals—and create measurable added value.

Our team of consultants comes from the worlds of technology and industry—sectors that continue to shape our DNA to this day. We understand their dynamics, interdependencies, and common pitfalls from real-world experience, and we factor these in from the very beginning. For us, long-term, trust-based collaboration is the key to projects that truly make a difference.

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 Why Successful Companies
Work with KBC

Practical experience instead of teams made up entirely of junior staff

No long ramp-up periods: You'll work with experienced consultants who are familiar with complex real-world situations.

Deep into implementation—not just concepts

We support your team all the way through to operational implementation and don’t leave until the measures are successfully implemented.

Industry experience gained from 1,000 consulting projects

Every industry operates according to its own logic. We understand that—and develop solutions that truly work in your specific context.

Our Consulting Model

A Framework for Complex Decisions

Challenges in companies usually arise from the interaction of several functions: from development and production to procurement and logistics, and on to sales and after-sales. That is why KBC’s consulting team combines different areas of expertise to help your organization make progress exactly where the greatest need for action currently lies.

As a boutique consulting firm, our goal is to actively understand your needs: Rather than relying on off-the-shelf solutions, we develop customized approaches for you that truly deliver results. With decades of experience in industries such as the automotive sector, we have firsthand knowledge of high levels of complexity, close interdependencies, and intense pressure to deliver results. This has enabled us to continuously evolve our consulting firm both throughout Germany and internationally.

KBC is led by six senior partners with a combined total of over 100 years of consulting experience. They are supported by a well-coordinated team with broad expertise in management and industry. All of them view consulting as a craft that only reveals its true value once it is put into practice.

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An Overview of Our Consulting Services

Supply Chain Management

Due to the unstable global situation, established value chains are coming under increasing pressure. Efficiency alone is no longer enough: adaptability and resilience are the new currency in SCM. KBC’s consulting team brings nearly 20 years of project experience to supply chain consulting. Together with your team, we assess risks, identify interdependencies, and ensure transparency throughout your entire supply chain. We support you all the way through implementation—creating flexible, resilient structures that enable your company to remain agile and competitive even in times of crisis.

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Operational Excellence

Problems in the operations area rarely occur in isolation: rising costs, fluctuating quality, and a lack of transparency reinforce one another and undermine performance throughout the value chain. Decisions are often based on assumptions rather than solid facts, while competitors respond better and faster. As a management consulting firm specializing in operations, KBC identifies the root causes, prioritizes the levers with the greatest economic impact—and implements them together with your team. For operational excellence tailored to your company that specifically boosts both performance and profitability.

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Product Development

Product development consulting at KBC means proactively managing your development process starting right now. To achieve this, our experts combine hands-on technical expertise with clear decision-making frameworks: We align processes, employees, and methods so that you can reliably reach maturity levels and identify risks early on. Thanks to clear and concise information, you’ll be aware of all cost factors and able to make well-informed decisions. The result: Your products reach market readiness quickly, cost-effectively, and with high technical quality.

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Data & AI

In many companies, data remains unused and processes are unnecessarily carried out manually. Information is scattered across various tools, making it impossible to assess the potential of AI. At the same time, the pressure to make faster and more informed decisions is increasing. Through its data and AI consulting services, KBC identifies meaningful use cases along your value chain and establishes a robust data foundation in these areas. To do this, we uncover interconnections, prioritize potential applications, and develop solutions tailored to your processes in compliance with applicable regulations. This allows you to reduce error-prone manual work for your team, create transparency, and make decisions based on up-to-date, reliable data.

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Strategy

Today, strategy consulting means helping companies make future-proof decisions in uncertain conditions. Markets are changing rapidly, resources are limited—and strategic visions lose their impact if operational realities are not taken into account. KBC evaluates market potential and business model options with a focus on competitive positioning, growth, and technological changes. We support your team in implementing these strategies right down to day-to-day operations: This results in a corporate strategy that follows clear priorities, streamlines decision-making processes, and is effectively embedded throughout the organization.

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Transformation

Have structures, processes, and roles changed to the point where they no longer align? It’s time for corporate transformation consulting: Over the years, market demands change, systems reach their limits, and teams come under pressure. This is exactly where KBC steps in with its corporate transformation consulting services: refining goals, clarifying responsibilities, and defining priorities. Our team of consultants works closely with day-to-day operations—tailoring our approach to each client and committed to guiding the transformation all the way to the final outcome. This creates sustainable change: transparent and with measurable results for the entire organization.

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Sales & After-Sales

Declining demand, changing customer needs, and a lack of service infrastructure are putting pressure on companies: Sales teams are missing revenue targets, after-sales potential remains untapped, and new business models—such as remanufacturing—are difficult to grasp. Through our Sales & After-Sales consulting, KBC examines your existing sales structures and identifies untapped revenue potential. In doing so, we refine your offering and pricing models, digitize sales processes, and establish profitable service and after-sales structures. This enables you not only to sustainably increase your revenue but also to strengthen customer loyalty beyond the point of sale.

 

Sales and After-Sales Consulting

Innovation

Innovation doesn’t happen at the push of a button. Companies often face the question of how to achieve growth in stagnant markets, how to meet cost targets, or how to solve technical challenges. As an innovation consulting firm, we at KBC have developed the disruptive BOLD methodology—which has since been proven effective thousands of times—in collaboration with scientists: We use it to systematically break down old patterns of thinking in our innovation projects. To do this, we work closely with your experts in a workshop-based format—and systematically develop new ideas that measurably advance your company.

 

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Quality

Quality rarely breaks down at a single point, but often along the entire value chain. Rising quality costs, unclear defect patterns, or unstable supply chains indicate a lack of transparency regarding the causes of defects, process weaknesses, and interrelated risks. Through our quality consulting services, KBC’s team of consultants identifies key levers and strategically aligns your organization accordingly. The focus is on cost-effectiveness: recall management and supplier stabilization are the levers that will make quality profitable again in your company.

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Achievements that speak for themselves

Management Consulting – International and Local

As a German consulting firm with offices in Munich and Charlotte, North Carolina, KBC combines local expertise with global project experience. From our boutique consulting firm in Germany, we work in cross-continental teams and bring together perspectives from various markets. 

Our team of consultants maintains a permanent presence in Europe and the U.S.—and also supports projects in Mexico, China, and other international markets. This enables us to provide structured support for even the most complex global challenges: working closely with our clients and delivering strong results.

Industries We Serve as a Boutique Consulting Firm

Automotive

New technologies, volatile supply chains, and rising cost pressures are posing fundamental challenges to the automotive industry. At the same time, the industry must meet high standards for quality and on-time delivery. With our in-depth understanding of the industry, we help OEMs and suppliers mitigate risks early on and stabilize processes from development through after-sales.

Industrials

In the manufacturing and mechanical engineering sectors, established structures are confronted with increasing complexity: a wide variety of product variants, cost pressures, and fragile supply chains constantly require far-reaching decisions. With clear processes and sound cost strategies, we ensure that industrial companies remain capable of taking action despite changing conditions.

Technology

In the tech industry, companies often grow faster than their organizational structure can keep up: decisions regarding products, platforms, or scaling must be made with increasingly limited resources. Our team of consultants helps technology companies set priorities, define viable steps—and guides you through the implementation process.

Public sector

Outdated structures, complex procurement processes, and limited human resources are holding back many public-sector organizations. At the same time, there is often a lack of clear guidance on how to effectively implement digitalization or transformation. Drawing on our experience in both industry and government, we define clear objectives, streamline processes, and embed change sustainably into everyday operations.

Medical Technology & Pharmaceuticals

The medical technology and pharmaceutical industries are shaped by intense cost and innovation pressures as well as regulatory requirements: products must be developed quickly and brought to market safely at the same time. Working together with your experts, we optimize cost structures, accelerate development processes, and reliably implement specifications.

Aviation

Supply shortages coupled with rising demand are putting pressure on airlines. Strict regulatory requirements add to the challenge, and it is not always possible to consistently ensure quality standards. We support you in building resilient structures that enable your organization to remain effective, even under challenging conditions.

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Answers That Move Your Business Forward

When is it worth hiring an external management consulting firm?

Management consulting is most beneficial when your organization lacks the internal capacity, expertise, or the necessary objectivity to assess its own operations. In such cases, an experienced external team is often the fastest way to achieve reliable results, because it thinks and acts without internal biases.

Drawing on nearly 20 years of hands-on project experience, our KBC consulting team understands the typical challenges and asks the specific questions that will help you move forward. We not only support your team in developing a viable strategy—we also consistently implement it while your day-to-day business continues as usual.

What are the benefits of working with a boutique consulting firm?

Companies that work with KBC particularly value the personal collaboration: With us, you’re not just a “number”—you work with a team that sees itself as an integral part of your organization.

To this end, we carefully assemble our consulting teams based on their experience and areas of expertise. The result is a partnership on equal footing with a strong focus on implementation—ensuring that the measures we develop have a measurable impact on your company.

Does KBC work on-site or remotely?

Although our management consulting firm is based in Munich and Charlotte, we work wherever the situation requires: on-site at the client’s company or at a supplier’s location, throughout Germany, and internationally. Of course, we can also work remotely on a flexible basis—tailored to your needs and the project phase.

How quickly can KBC get a project started, and what is the process like?

After the initial contact, we’ll have a brief conversation to determine what kind of support would be most helpful. Depending on the type of project, we’ll get started within a week—or, in cases of urgent need, we’ll be on-site within 24 hours as a task force.

The process follows a clear structure: understanding the current situation, defining the target state and priorities, and supporting implementation in day-to-day operations—until the change truly takes hold within the organization.

Is KBC one of the best boutique management consultancies in Germany?


If one is to believe one of the industry’s most prestigious awards: Yes. Thanks to our innovative projects, we have now impressed the judges at *Wirtschaftswoche* for the ninth time and were honored with the Best of Consulting Award [link (internal): Best of Consulting Insights]: 1st place in SME, Competitive Strategy, and Project Excellence, Marketing, and Sales—2nd place in Manufacturing & Operations, Purchasing & SCM Management, and Strategy, as well as in the sectors of Consumer and Mechanical & Plant Engineering. 

Furthermore, according to Statista and brand eins, KBC ranks among Germany’s best management consultancies, holds the Top Consultant seal from 2016 and 2017, and is both ISO and TISAX certified.

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Portrait photo of Stefan Kemény, Senior Partner at Kemény Boehme Consultants (KBC). A man with short, dark blond hair and gray temples, wearing square dark horn-rimmed glasses, looks into the camera with a broad smile. He is wearing a dark blue jacket over a white shirt without a tie, his hands loosely clasped in front of his body, with an upright and engaging posture.
Stefan Kemény
Senior Partner

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