Julian Binz
Strategic IT-Buyer / BI + Analysis Expert
Experience
Consulting strategic IT purchasing
Hornbach Baumarkt AG
Hornbach Baumarkt AG is an operator of DIY and garden centres in Europe based in Bornheim (Palatinate). It is a subsidiary of the listed company Hornbach Holding AG & Co. KGaA.
In the 2021/2022 financial year, the Hornbach Baumarkt Group generated generated sales of 5.5 billion euros. The Hornbach Baumarkt Group operates 169 DIY megastores with garden centres and online shops in nine European countries, including 96 stores and two speciality stores for hard floor coverings in Germany. The average sales area of a DIY store and garden centre is around 11,800 square metres.
IT purchasing:
- Participation in the development of a strategy concept for managing regular licence, maintenance and support renewals taking into account risks, opportunities, economic efficiency and use of resources
- Analysis and maintenance of the regular licence, maintenance, and support extensions
Consulting strategic IT purchasing
PHOENIX Pharmahandel GmbH & Co KG
The PHOENIX group is a leading integrated healthcare provider in Europe. The daily, reliable supply of supplying people with medicines and medical products products is the focus here. With around 50,000 employees, it makes an important contribution to comprehensive healthcare provision in Europe. The vision of the PHOENIX group is to be the best integrated healthcare provider - wherever it operates.
Pharmaceutical wholesale, with its unique pan-European coverage, represents the core business of the company. PHOENIX operates in 25 countries at 158 locations in the pharmaceutical wholesale and Pharmaceutical Wholesale and Pre-Wholesale Pharmacies divisions, doctors and medical facilities with medicines and healthcare products. Furthermore, PHOENIX owns the pharmacy brands BENU, APOTEK 1, Rowlands Pharmacy and Help Net with over 2,800 of its own pharmacies in 14 European countries. In addition, PHOENIX offers specialised services for over 200 pharmaceutical companies based on the "All-in-One" concept. It connects pharmaceutical industry, wholesalers, pharmacies and patients. One focus is on logistics, another on business intelligence and patient intelligence and patient services.
Confirmed savings of 1.4 million euro
IT purchasing:
- Taking over tendering activities in the area of IT purchasing (software, cloud, hardware and IT services) during the Carve-in following the merger with parts of McKesson Europe AG during the Transitional Service Agreement exit timeframe
- Identification and implementation of optimisation opportunities within the tool and contract landscape
- Analysing and preparing the management report on Group-wide savings
Procurement Consultant Corporate IT
Balluff GmbH
Balluff is a medium-sized company - family-run for four generations family-run, founded in Neuhausen auf den Fildern near Stuttgart and has grown into a cosmopolitan, leading global player. Balluff is a sensor and automation specialist with tradition and long-standing long-standing customer relationships - which at the same time acts as an important important innovation partner for its customers.
Balluff offers a high-quality product range with an enormous bandwidth: Sensors and systems for displacement measurement, identification, object detection, for monitoring process media and a comprehensive extensive portfolio for industrial image processing. Our programm includes a comprehensive range of accessories as well as an extremely diverse range of network and connection technology for a high-performance infrastructure. On this basis, we develop holistic automation solutions and accompany you step by step into the digital world.
IT purchasing:
- Review, optimise and negotiate contracts
- Analysing and improving processes
Procurement Consultant Corporate IT-Infrastructure
Lohmann GmbH & Co. KG
Founded in 1851, Lohmann is regarded as a pioneer in adhesive tape technology and is now active worldwide. The headquarters of the adhesive tape group is located in Neuwied/Germany. The company employs over 1,800 people worldwide and is active at 29 international locations and with exclusive sales partners in over 50 countries around the globe.
IT purchasing:
- Operational purchasing of IT infrastructure and software
- Processing of purchase requisitions
- Monitoring delivery dates
- Invoice verification
- Licence monitoring
- Carrying out price negotiations
- Supplier management
Development of strategic IT purchasing:
- Analysis of the current situation, identification of potentials, necessary restructuring and involving critical stakeholders
- Cost-benefit analysis of individual measures
- Improvement of processes with a focus on increasing efficiency
- Participation in the reorganisation of the budget planning process
Training of new colleagues in IT procurement:
- Transfer of processes, their background ideas and interrelationships
Procurement Consultant Corporate IT-Infrastructure
Burda Procurement GmbH
Burda Procurement GmbH is the procurement service provider for the entire Hubert Burda Media Group.
Confirmed savings of 0.23 million euro
IT purchasing:
- Realisation of sourcing projects with strategic purchasing
- Tendering, benchmarking, price and contract negotiation of software solutions (on-prem, SaaS, subscription) in the areas of BI/data analytics, marketing & sales solutions, cloud hosting services and IT services among others
- Processing of requirements requests in the IT software, IT services and cloud services product groups
- Advising clients on sourcing projects in the above-mentioned product groups
- Tendering and negotiation of potential framework agreement partners
Strategic IT-Buyer
Monkey Work UG (haftungsbeschränkt)
MonkeyWork is a consulting company specializing in IT purchasing with over two decades of experience in small, medium and corporate environments, of which over ten years in team and interim leadership as well as experience in warehouse and logistics environments.
As part of this it performs as a service provider the full spectrum of purchasing for customers in the areas of IT, Software Development, Pharma, Medical, Food, Aviation, Video Security, Renewable Energy, Travel and Print- Online-Media worldwide.
Responsibilities:
- Operational and tactical purchasing
- Processing of purchase requisitions
- Delivery date monitoring
- License tracking
- Preparation and execution of purchasing projects in coordination with Strategic Purchasing
- Contract fulfillment monitoring
- Claim processing
- Conducting price negotiations
- Supplier Management
Category Management
Sander Gruppe
The Sander Holding GmbH & Co. KG (with more than 1,500 employees) consisting of the companies Sander Gourmet GmbH, Sander Catering GmbH and Sander International GmbH, is an owner-managed family business based in Wiebelsheim/Rhineland-Palatinate. Sander has been established on the food service market for more than 45 years with high-quality food production and refinement as well as a service provider in the field of innovative gastronomic management concepts.
Responsibilities:
- Qualified data management in the KOST ERP system
- Article creation and maintenance, import of price and assortment updates from suppliers in the KOST ERP system
- Definition of order shopping baskets
- Negotiation of prices
- Creation of purchase orders and control of purchase requisitions
- Invoice verification
- Commercial complaints processing
- Creating, negotiating and maintaining framework agreements
- Conducting supplier negotiations and annual supplier meetings
- Working closely with the development department in the course of supplier assortment consolidations and expansions
- Carrying out invitations to tender
- Conceptual development of product range strategies
- Assortment controlling on the basis of defined KPIs
- Preparation of product and price calculations for the individual market segments (care sector, business catering, school & children market)
- Creation of print templates and order forms as well as macro programming in Excel including communication to the key account and area manager
- Optimization of the value chain as well as realization of synergy potentials within the Sander group of companies
- Maintenance of the Sander web and mobile app
Industrial Management Assistant (Apprenticeship)
Sander Gruppe
Areas of application:
- Strategic and operational purchasing
- Category Management
- Controlling
- Logistics
- Facility Management