Purchasing & Partners

We at Koenig & Bauer have been manufacturing printing presses tailored to the wishes of our customers for over 200 years now. With the goods produced by our printing presses, we are a fixed part of the everyday lives of many people worldwide. These include press products, advertising material, packaging or even securities – in short: products whose availability many people take for granted.

In this way we continuously make a background contribution to a functioning society, and with our product innovations influence the lives of all of us.

These expectations on the part of our customers nourish our ambition to achieve quality, modernity and reliability.  

It goes without saying that we as the Koenig & Bauer Group need the right partners in the market to share our passions and to cooperate with us in order to improve everyday life.

The divisions within the purchasing department of the Koenig & Bauer Group pursue a coordinated, sustainable strategy. In practical terms, we use the "proximity to the product" of the purchasing departments at various locations, and to do this we have established interfaces for networking with each other. In this way we get to know the products which the divisions are responsible for, and at the same time obtain a Koenig & Bauer-wide impression of the big picture.

Our orientation in the purchasing department is subject to a material grouping and production strategy. Our largest fields are:

  • Mechanically processed parts on the basis of drawings
  • Electrical systems/electronic systems/control cabinet construction
  • Cast parts
  • Semi-finished products and raw materials
     

Of course, we as mechanical engineers need a large number of different materials and continuously new ideas for using cost-saving manufacturing processes.

We attach the utmost importance to the quality and reliability of our partners when selecting suppliers. Mutual evaluation allows continued further development in order to meet mutual requirements.

Besides the usual market solutions for electronic order and job processing, we offer a portal solution for our "just-in-time" and "just-in-sequence" production facilities ensuring they can foresee their requirements. Our suppliers are therefore always up to date in the series production business.

In low-volume series, we rely on "quality first" in order to be able to install our components on schedule.

Even after the point of sale, our customers still mean a lot to us. We attach great importance to the short-term availability of components in the field of plant and machinery maintenance as well as supplying our customers with spare parts. To achieve this, we cooperate with partners who help us to generate this added value.

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