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Schwarz Beschaffung

Our focus and our responsibility

Ambitious procurement of a comprehensive portfolio

Schwarz Beschaffung is the central service provider for products and services required in-house by the companies of Schwarz Group. So, our customers include 575,000 colleagues from Lidl and Kaufland as well as PreZero, Schwarz Produktion, Schwarz Digits and Schwarz Corporate Solutions. Over 300 employees along with about 2,800 business partners deal with strategically implementing purchasing for our colleagues.

All Schwarz Beschaffung activities are classified into five procurement units. All product groups are included in the portfolio, ranging from simple consumables to various services right up to complex production facilities, and other investment goods. In this way, we support the ability to act of the companies of Schwarz Group worldwide and lay the foundations to overcome challenges such as supply reliability or adherence to both environmental and social standards.

We define the procurement process and work in close liaison with our requesters. We are driven by high quality standards. To respond to this, Schwarz Beschaffung focuses on long-term partnerships based on trust with their suppliers; suppliers and customers benefit from this too. In this way, we manage to develop new ideas and innovative concepts together with our requesters on the one hand, and with business partners on the other, such as, with regard to digitalization.

Moreover, one particularly strong focus is placed on sustainability in the entire supply chain. By means of our procurement strategy, we make a decisive contribution to achieving the sustainability targets of the companies of Schwarz Group.

An overview of the Schwarz Beschaffung units

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Procurement of interiors and consumables

Contact person for strategic procurement of work wear, store fittings, furniture, construction materials, and consumables. Topics also include: 

 

Store interiors

  • Shelving and goods presentation for the store area
  • Wire and metal goods (including shopping carts and enclosures, indoor and outdoor advertising media)
  • Fittings for store entrances and exits as well as checkouts and goods surveillance technology
  • Display units for fruit and vegetables and fresh baked goods
  • Lightning for product displays
  • Sales promotion material (including labeling and marketing material at the point of sale) 

 

Consumables & building equipment

  • Office furniture
  • Cleaning and hygiene products
  • Food contact packaging
  • Construction materials
  • Lamps including internal and external lighting
  • Consumables, incl. stretch film, adhesive tape, and knife blades
  • Special papers, such as price labels and copy paper
  • Pallets including plastic pallets and carriers 

 

Work clothing:

  • Collections for Lidl Kaufland stores and as well as clothing for PreZero, logistics and gastronomy
  • Personal protective equipment
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Procurement life cycle

Contact person for strategic procurement of technical investment goods as well as associated service and maintenance. Topics also include:

 

Refrigeration technology (store):

  • Chillers, chiller chests, cold rooms, plug-connect cooling devices
  • Product cooling heat recovery systems
  • Monitoring systems

 

Store technology:

  • Food processing machines (including ovens and (hot) drink machines, bread slicers, sausage and cheese slicing machines, packaging machines)
  • Intruder alarm systems
  • Parking guidance technology
  • Food stalls including interiors and technology for industrial kitchens
  • Ventilation systems

 

Business equipment and bottle deposit systems:

  • Pallet jacks
  • Cleaning and disposal technology
  • Battery systems for pallet jacks and cleaning technology
  • Storage technology
  • Measuring and weighing technology
  • Products in the health management sector (including defibrillators and fitness machines)
  • Work platforms, lifting platforms
  • Deposit/empties return systems

 

Project area:

  • Conventional racking systems
  • Automated order picking systems
  • Drive technology
  • Technology for corporate security
  • Processing plant
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Procurement services

Contact person for the strategic procurement of all topics, of a service provider nature. Topics also include: 

 

Mobility

  • Company vehicle fleet and associated services (maintenance, wear and tear, fuel cards, car cleaning & care, assessors, damage management, etc.)
  • Travel management
  • Rental vehicles
  • Mobility solutions  
  • Trucks and trailers as well as commercial vehicles and special commercial vehicles

 

Energy and energy infrastructure

  • Electricity and gas
  • Electric charging stations/wall boxes
  • Photovoltaic systems
  • CO2 compensation 

 

Leaflets and cardboard packaging boxes

  • Paper and printing services for the household leaflets/brochures
  • Cardboard packaging boxes (internal logistics boxes, shipping boxes, special boxes) 

 

Central services

  • Logistics (non-merchandise, paper logistics, vehicle logistics)
  • Inspection services (laboratories, quality assurance, audits, certifications)
  • Multi-use pallets (rental/pooling)
     
  • Personnel leasing
  • Seminar/training services
  • Consultancy services (legal advice/attorneys, auditors, corporate consultants etc.)
  • Infrastructural facility management (Heilbronn/Neckarsulm region) 
     
  • Marketing agencies
  • Market research
  • Photography (CGI, photographer, product photography, photo dababase, etc.)
  • Creation (Creative agency, online marketing, marketing concepts, PR agency, Marketing strategy)
  • Production (film, production, sound, music, radio, post-production)
  • Packaging design incl. reproduction services
  • Loyalty programs
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IT procurement

Contact person for the strategic procurement and provision of IT goods and services. Topics also include: 

 

Digital communication

  • Digital communication technology (providers and devices)
  • Instore communication (checkout control system)
  • ESL (electronic shelf labels)
  • Store headsets
  • Event/media/conference technology
  • Digital video technology

 

IT Hardware

  • POS, checkouts, scales, SCO, card terminals, cash management
  • Products in the workplace environment, incl. time recording and access systems
  • Mobile devices/terminals/scanners
  • Printers
  • Server systems, storage, backup
  • Infrastructure for data centers
  • Associated services or applications 

 

Software, applications & services

  • Software solutions (licenses and service models, cloud, software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS))
  • Purchased and rented licenses
  • IT consultancy and development services,
  • Support, hosting and operating agreements
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Product development and quality assurance

Both departments, product development and quality assurance, play an essential role in cooperating with our business partners. They reduce risks for both sides, and they ensure maximum transparency and clarity in the expectations of products for our partners. Developments are closely monitored to work in a goal-oriented and efficient manner. As a result, this contributes to greater satisfaction for business partners and customers.

 

Our self-managed product development makes onboarding easier for potential new business partners. Business partners benefit from a wide range of tenders.

 

The portfolio of services includes for example:

 

Product development 

  • Need-based, customer-specific product development
  • Construction & visualizations (CAD, VR, AR, MR, 360 ° tours, digital twins)
  • Technical advice, feedback, and support

 

Quality assurance

  • Support in defining specific quality requirements 
  • Quick, practical assessments of product quality 
  • Evaluation using established quality standards 
  • Improving & ensuring consistent quality