Overview

Rather than preparing agonizingly long position papers and endless discussions, we jump right into action as soon as possible – because that’s where the questions and answers to your project are found.

We have not only supported, audited and implemented overall project planning for our customers in over 20 countries, but have also done this for individual project phases since 2003.

30% of our new customers' orders are done by phone and are usually only contracted for a few hours or days. Because time is of the essence.

We’ll get to the paper work as soon as it’s possible for you. You are our focus, not the bureaucratic details.

Of course, we are professional and value bureaucratic efficiency. This means that we figure out the details for the 30% once they have the opportunity, and this is done immediately and prior to our deployment for the other 70%.

We take a neutral approach based purely on values and standards to support you in choosing IT service providers or vendors for warehouse technology, warehouse automation as well as loading devices and equipment before even getting started.

Alternatively, we can prepare an evaluation for you and provide you with a concrete assessment and recommendations.

You are looking, for example, for a large general contractor for an SAP-ERP-rollout or for implementing an international EWM or WM system. Then, as your neutral companion, we tell you what is important and what you should pay attention to on the market. Due to our independent structure and our extremely streamlined core business, we do not need to worry about any stipulations coming down from board members or controllers and are therefore completely loyal and impartial to our customers. Selecting a vendor or the right software is an own business area anyway at it[colos]AG.

This phase alone is often a valuable and extremely important phase for our customers, which is considered completely separate by nature. It often takes places merely months before the actual software project is launched.

Logistics, business processes, personnel, equipment and products are as equally important to us as the IT. Individual analyses are a common part of the process.

Together with you, we make sure all aspects of your project are covered by taking into account all previous assessments in the overall analysis.

Rather than preparing agonizingly long position papers and endless discussions, we jump right into action as soon as possible – because that’s where the questions and answers to your project are found.

We carry out a status analysis at your request or for extremely complex or automated logistics facilities. Based on our experience, generally intensive warehouse tours and interviews often suffice for the first step. You don’t believe it? Try us out. Whereas other companies need 12 months to draft the actual processes and put together a status analysis, we are already working on the first prototype. We focus on your future, without ignoring your past or present.

You won’t find bits and bytes in our concepts, but rather real information to go with your business which can be implemented effectively.

The concepts are comprehensive, purposeful, sustainable and are usually enhanced from a design quality of 40% to 90% after a few meetings with you. You will receive 100% upon your request, knowing that the last 10% not only represents the most effort, but is usually also determined by real life factors.

We not only create requirement specifications, tender documents, functional specifications or EWM / WM logistical concepts once we’ve been commissioned. We also give you your company-specific, viable and sustainable EWM or WM concept for if you want to implement it in your internal or external IT system yourself or have it implemented by other market competitors.

Our customers value our expertise. We support you in the overall strategy as well as in individual strategic points. This should ideally be done prior to starting an ERP project, although it can certainly be done instead of, during or after SAP projects are completed.

In any situation that may arise, we look forward to joining you in your project or project phase!

Precise, short, fast, viable.

Together, we set up a qualified team and gladly support you in selecting the internal project members. Either you or we provide streamlined project management that leads the project in a targeted manner and constantly conducts follow-ups. At the same time, we consider the team as well as each employee on board as a key factor to the project’s success. We are regularly involved in "laboratory projects" – however, the most successful projects take place in the warehouse or in the vicinity of the warehouse.

Successfully implementing our jointly developed concept in your company. This applies to the potential changes in the processes, your team and the technical implementation – for which we also offer complete solutions.

Of course, we also offer implementing the solutions we developed. We establish a constructive dialogue with you in order to create your perfect system. This is generally done without or with only minimal – then justifiable – deviations from the SAP standard.

Our strategy aims to have your project capable of running on its own after its launched and supported. We won’t make you dependent on us or our developers. We’re not interested in that. We pay attention to regular prototypes and tests conducted by the responsible people, such as from the executers, and hence achieve rapid progress for all involved. Tangible, for instance, via a prototype concept.

When you introduce ERP software, additional modules or changing processes, the consultant, consulting firm and customer typically take charge of the technology and implementation. Change management, which is essential in most substantive, strategic, structural, system-based, organizational or procedural changes, is for the most part never forgotten, but dangerously undervalued.

Even a modified warehouse topology or the conversion from paper to mobile devices seems trivial at first glance, but the devil is in the details; not to mention a warehouse relocation, a company consolidation or out- or insourcing.

Another component to increase the likelihood of a successful project.

After "technically successful SAP implementations" by third parties, we had to frequently get the Change Management “up to speed” after the software was integrated.

You want to avoid this situation: then don’t underestimate the importance of Change Management!

You’re already stuck in this situation: Call us.

Coaching is a process applicable to individuals as well as entire groups. The goal here is focusing on the personal development of their "soft skills" or "key qualifications".

As a coach, we are here to help you or your employees identify and activate individual potential. In difficult situations, we can open up new perspectives, break down any mental barriers and mobilize your strengths. Even in conflict situations or in far-reaching decisions, we can help you pursue the right way at the right time. Here, we see ourselves as a catalyst, which "navigates" you until the desired improvements become viable on their own.

You need a skilled project team, a warehouse activity monitor, functioning logistics or an internal IT team to develop your processes. Here, too, we use a coaching approach – more in the sense of a "trainer" – to bring you to your goal.

Coaching by it[colos]AG.

You get the training that you need.

For specific cases.

At your company.

Benefit from our advice in your own projects, external projects or an audit before you go live: One of our qualities that has often proven successful around the world – turning the last screws, sharpening the final details, a global and fast check or a strict "not ready yet". That's our business.

We throw the switch together.

We do not have a separate support crew. You see the same faces on site and in the warehouse, the same ones who have already assisted you during the project. Protective footwear, yellow jackets, helmets, whistles and yet a calm, analytical eye, and purposeful, enterprising hands. Now it's complete. We do not argue about who botched a detail. The solution is the goal.

In addition to audits and safeguardings, Phase II is one of our favorites. This phase is sometimes passed on to us as a result of errors, defects or shortcomings. Often, the scope was put together accordingly in Phase I or strategically decided for Phase I.

Enormous added value is usually found in Phase II. Treat yourself to this phase – regardless of whether it’s weeks or years later. It’s worth it. The ROI (Return on Investment) is extremely short, meaning it’s definitely worthwhile. We do that for you. Regardless of who has realized the previous steps with you. You and your employees now know the system, the master data are (more or less) current and the processes are honed. The time has come to use the power of hindsight to retrieve the highest value from your corporate logistics.

You’ve already been using SAP for decades. Uncontrolled proliferation of your own coding, "Z" transactions, awry processes and things that have "resulted from the past" are in use. That can happen, and yes, it’s a thing of the past.

Time to clean up, to lift your system to the next level, or rather bring it back on its course and return it to the standard: a wonderful job for us, the ROI will be extremely short.

The ball was dropped on the management level for your logistics. You want to intermittently focus on your logistics project. Or rather, you would like to steer the critical business-related logistics, while someone else takes care of the project work so that the key processes can be handed over to you – and not only in the sense of a technically functioning IT system.

Your Change Management was underestimated during a project and your processes suddenly cease to function, the inventory discrepancies or stocks inexplicably increase.

We are happy to be your managers on loan, your Interim Managers. We generally steer the project in its entirety, or of course only there where you need us, and with accountability for results.

Many of our clients have excellent IT departments. However, IT is usually not the core business of our customers. While you are constructing aircraft, manufacturing large-scale finished vehicles, producing wind turbines and servicing them, inventing technological niche products or distributing high-quality goods as quickly as possible, we guarantee your IT projects are running smoothly and efficiently. We not only do this as entire projects.

We audit your own, our shared or the projects that you have assigned to general contractors or other service providers.

We are

Your Mentor

With our toolbox full of experience, tips

and tricks.

Your Troubleshooter

With different opinions in the company, for

example, within the departments, between

the departments and IT, between your

management and your partners, between

logistics and the works council.

Your Appraiser

If you, for instance, need an appraisal of

your logistics systems for the management

board, parent company, government,

services, customers, suppliers, partners or

in case of an emergency.

Your neutral third party and referee

Together with your internal or external service providers, we check present offers and put them through a market comparison. We analyze (programming) requirements or change requests for validity, necessity and cost estimates. We give fair statements concerning the course of the project, resources, timetables, feasibility as well as the primary and secondary goals.

Your Code Inspector

In addition to a runtime analysis, performance analysis, global performance analysis and manual inspections of your system, we like to drive forward your own developments much further:

We will check your programming, expansion and modification ideas at any and all stages. You will be surprised at how much can be saved on an ad hoc basis and over the long run. We also recommend the appropriate "Back to the standard scenarios" and implement them with you. We guarantee a ROI here that will amaze you!

Your partner for everything you move and that moves you.

It sometimes happens that companies outside of our existing customer base turn to us for help: "Something’s not right, but we don’t know what". Or "Our production line is coming to a standstill. Can you help? When?"

We are completely in our element here. Regardless of where we are at the moment we are aware of the emergency – within 60 to 180 minutes we are sitting in the appropriate means of transport on our way to you, or are logged on remotely to your system and remain there until the problem is solved. You don’t believe it? Try it out! Although we hope you never find yourself in such a situation.

Our emergency contact: