Expertise at eye level with renowned multinationals

Industry-specific knowledge in the areas of engineering, supply chain management, logistics and digitization marks the essence of our business success. The engineering of customized supply chain solutions is driven by the experience of our fellows in their respective fields, which highlights our technical and supply chain engineers as our core asset.
All our fellows are or were working for large multinationals, where they gained subject-specific experience and still enjoy easy access to the vast knowledge pools via their networks inside those corporations.

Immediate visibility and control at your fingertips

Always keep control over your flow of goods. Enjoy lean buy’s comprehensive, yet intuitive, supply chain platform featuring aggregated and concise information regarding your inquiries and orders. Choose your preferred level of detail with the appropriate data granularity to perform valuable analyses of your procurement processes. Administrate all your procurement contracts in a centralized and user-friendly way by creating, editing, renewing or copying existing requests with ease.

Shipment tracking on Google Maps

Track down any order using the tracking section in the client portal. The latest tracking interfaces to our main carriers and the digital vessel and aircraft tracking systems (Automatic Identification System – AIS) allow for seamless updates on the processing of your order and inform about any potential exceptions as well as related recovery actions in a timely manner. Tracking intercontinental just-in-time production replenishment supplies has just become as easy as tracking a domestic parcel.

Professionally agreed quality standards

Meeting our clients' expectations is our main objective. Despite all the analysis and neatly defined product characteristics, we deem the inspection and agreement on a physical reference sample as a crucial and mandatory step needed to align all the stakeholders' expectations regarding the nature and quality of the goods. With the exception of oversized workpieces, lean buy provides all product samples as a general rule free of charge.

Cutting out the middlemen

In our drive to establish the most efficient supply chain solution for our clients, we avoid using any intermediaries, distributors and agents. We simply cut out all the middlemen that don’t evidently contribute to value creation for our clients. Our native purchase coordinators are in direct contact with the factories in the respective primary markets so as to ensure that all production orders have a qualitative, timely dispatch and competitive cost whilst they conform to the quality required.

Engineering, sourcing and logistics out of one hand

We understand that outsourcing to many external partners often ends in an unrewarding confusion, seeing as responsibilities get thrown from one party to another, thus leading to continuous deterioration of operations' quality and responsiveness. With lean buy we offer you all aspects of professional procurement management, from technical product specification to on-time delivery as an end-to-end supply chain product, out of one hand. As an importer of record (IOR) we perform all the legal duties and obligations just like a domestic manufacturer, making you feel like purchasing from a local partner –no customs declarations, no duties, no hazzle.

Our promise: a maximum margin of 9.9%

We firmly believe in the value of respectful and honest business relationships. Being respectful towards our clients means taking preference to long-term partnerships with continuous revenues as opposed to the short-term gain opportunity of a single, overpriced order. This understanding has led us to implement the one-figure net margin limit, which limits lean buy’s margin to a maximum of 9.9%. Any amount above this threshold, even if generated through foreign exchange rate benefits, is automatically refunded to our clients' account by means of a credit note.

Your growth is our success

Building business on the pillars of integrity and client satisfaction has been our business credo since the minute we started and it still guides us during our daily operations. Treating our stakeholders with respect, integrity and honesty comes as a matter of course and reflects in our daily business operations via open discussions and sometimes even frank denials in the event of failed feasibility studies. Join us to participate in the success created from genuine partnership and sustainable business conduct.

Connect your system to lean buy

Professional digitization is key to leveraging efficiencies and reducing transactional costs. We offer the possibility to connect our services to our clients' ERP systems and databases through the provision of professional application interfaces (APIs). Contact us to learn more about the connectivity and interoperability of our system landscape.