Unbiased Design
Miebach Consulting began over four decades ago when Dr. Miebach saw the need for an unbiased firm to design distribution, warehousing and manufacturing sites, independent of suppliers of equipment or buildings. Since the development of this approach, Miebach has supported some of the first automated warehouses and robotic applications in the industry, constantly looking for innovative ways to improve operations.
Our methodology is not focused on how to introduce automation to an operation, but rather designing sound strategies and processes objectively analyzing the adequate level of technology and identifying possible areas for its application.
Designs based on the client's specific needs
Miebach’s expertise goes beyond design. We support clients with the specification development, tendering, implementation, training and ramp up, and acting as their technical advocate all the way through to the successful go-live. This technical expertise and experience supports our design efforts, ensuring the business case, timelines, and risks identified.
Our approach is based on practical application and not academic theory. This allows our services to be modular, and can range from a complete turnkey application to more of a staff augmentation approach during the later phases of the project.
Miebach Consulting began over four decades ago when Dr. Miebach saw the need for an unbiased firm to design distribution, warehousing and manufacturing sites, independent of suppliers of equipment or buildings. Since the development of this approach, Miebach has supported some of the first automated warehouses and robotic applications in the industry, constantly looking for innovative ways to improve operations.
Our methodology is not focused on how to introduce automation to an operation, but rather designing sound strategies and processes objectively analyzing the adequate level of technology and identifying possible areas for its application.
Designs based on the client's specific needs
Miebach’s expertise goes beyond design. We support clients with the specification...
Services
Integrated Logistics and Construction
Project support from single source
Whether planning a new facility or optimizing an existing site, you are continuously faced with complex investment decisions, often involving millions of dollars. Hiring a single firm to integrate logistics and construction has proven to be a smart organizational decision to ensure coordinated planning and construction processes. As a logistics expert, Miebach Consulting is a reliable partner in planning facilities and implementing them on time and under budget. With this combined approach the operational design of the facility has first priority, while the other design efforts are integrated seamlessly.
A process tailored to your needs
As an unbiased consultant, Miebach works independently of specific suppliers or manufacturers. Rather than sourcing an operations consultancy, an architect, and a build firm on your own, we work with you to create specification requirements for each work package and support the tendering and award process. Our goal is to create a process that best conforms to your specific needs and on-site conditions.
Benefits
- Project and interface management from a single source
- Unbiased manufacturer advice allows optimal configuration of overall system
- Strict adherence to budgets and schedules
- Streamlined planning organization, client retains full control
- Reliable continuity, from concept to go-live
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Local Expert

Marian Jezusek
Managing Director
Phone +48 32 43004-19
Email jezusek@miebach.com
Miebach Consulting Sp. z o.o.
Wroclawska 8
Gliwice, 44-100
Poland
Global Expert

Frank Sonnefeld
Director
Phone +49 69 273992-0
Email sonnefeld@miebach.com
Miebach Consulting GmbH
Untermainanlage 6
Frankfurt am Main, 60329
Germany
Production Logistics
Synchronized Processes Increase Competitivity
Increasingly, customers are calling for individual products to be delivered at the shortest possible notice. Production and logistics processes must be further aligned to meet these requirements. Emerging technologies in digitization present challenges but at the same time offer opportunities for high productivity. Stable and lean processes have been and will remain prerequisites for high productivity and effective use of digitization.
Integrated Planning of Production and Logistics
As a logistics and production expert, Miebach Consulting can support you in developing new concepts and optimizing existing processes. Due to the high complexity of these projects it is important to rely on a partner who is not only capable of creating customized solutions but who can also implement them on site.
Benefits
- Holistic production and logistics planning
- Integration into the entire supply chain
- Digitization and automation after informed consideration of Total Cost of Ownership
- Close collaboration with your experts
- Solution-oriented, hands-on mindset

Local Expert

Martin Mazurek
Senior Consultant
Phone +48 32 43004-19
Email mazurek@miebach.com
Miebach Consulting Sp. z o.o.
Wroclawska 8
Gliwice, 44-100
Poland
Global Expert

Dr. Wolfram Süssenguth
Managing Director
Phone +49 30 893832-0
Email suessenguth@miebach.com
Miebach Consulting GmbH
Katharinenstraße 12
Berlin, 10711
Germany
Project Management
On budget, in time and with quality
Miebach Consulting plans, controls, and monitors projects of various size and complexity for clients – across all services and industries. From program management for multiple distribution centers for a Fast Moving Consumer Goods company to the Project Management Office (PMO) for the supply chain transformation of a global manufacturer: Our project managers define quantifiable and realistic goals and ensure that you achieve them by providing professional project management. Success is clearly identified from the achievement of goals for budget, timeline, quality, and operating costs.
Your partner for success
Miebach project managers use standardized tools and proven methods to achieve results. To begin, we establish a project handbook of the significant requirements and rules for project organization and processes. We display the project status at all times and in a transparent manner we use tools for deadline tracking, cost controlling, and quality review. Prompt and comprehensive professional risk management ensures your project success.
Benefits
- Reliable achievement of goals for output, function, quality, and cost
- Secure adherence to stated investment and cost frameworks
- High project security by highlighting risks and risk avoidance measures
- Complete transparency regarding project progression
- On-time transfer and adherence to milestones

Local Expert

Marian Jezusek
Managing Director
Phone +48 32 43004-19
Email jezusek@miebach.com
Miebach Consulting Sp. z o.o.
Wroclawska 8
Gliwice, 44-100
Poland
Global Expert

Frank Weigl
Director
Phone +49 69 273992-0
Email weigl@miebach.com
Miebach Consulting GmbH
Untermainanlage 6
Frankfurt am Main, 60329
Germany
Simulation
Evaluating scenarios for minimum risk
Due to the level of complexity of systems, new challenges for supply chain management are constantly surfacing. Planning with simulations embodies an integrated approach for safeguarding decisions when creating highly dynamic systems and networks. Miebach has many years of experience and expertise with simulation, both in launching greenfield systems and in optimizing existing ones. We collaborate with you to develop specific solutions using modern simulation software. Our simulations are done in-house by logistics experts ensuring the results are implementable and protect the business case.
Effective, efficient and fast
Miebach Consulting’s simulations clarify and illustrate existing or planned processes for your organization. By visualizing processes you are able to quickly identify bottlenecks and immediately introduce corrective measures. Flexible simulation models enable testing of various scenarios, then analyze the results in detail. The results of these tests provide reliable estimates of the expected system performance.
Benefits
- Ensuring the investment through more reliable planning
- Quickly finding, analyzing, and solving bottlenecks and under-utilization
- Increasing the productivity of existing systems by up to 20%
- Optimizing staff utilization through improved processes
- Quantifying improvement measures

Local Expert

Lukas Jatta
Principal
Phone +48 32 43004-19
Email jatta@miebach.com
Miebach Consulting Sp. z o.o.
Wroclawska 8
Gliwice, 44-100
Poland
Global Expert

Kamel Klibi
Director
Phone +49 69 273992-0
Email klibi@miebach.com
Miebach Consulting GmbH
Untermainanlage 6
Frankfurt am Main, 60329
Germany
Site Masterplanning
Lean material flows
Across industries, companies are noticing a need to develop a long-term logistics masterplan to coincide with the manufacturing evolution of their facilities. Miebach Consulting designs lean material flows to support the production processes and a flexible and expandable infrastructure. Additionally, as the role of the storage of finished goods moves toward more fulfillment activity and away from simple plant buffer, it becomes even more critical to ensure the operational processes are well-defined.
Meeting future plant requirements
The design process starts with understanding how your business and manufacturing plans will evolve in the long-term to define your future design requirements of the plant. Miebach then develops proper processes and efficient material flows in order to ensure the site logistics will meet your future needs. Only after this is defined, alternatives are proposed as to how technology could maximize the return on the transformation of your site.
Benefits
- Long-term logistics plan to match site evolution
- Ensured SKU proliferation of material and components are handled effectively
- Optimal density of storage to create flexibility for manufacturing
- Efficient kitting processes for delivery to the lines
- Minimize material handling touchpoints and avoid buffers

Local Expert

Lukas Jatta
Principal
Phone +48 32 43004-19
Email jatta@miebach.com
Miebach Consulting Sp. z o.o.
Wroclawska 8
Gliwice, 44-100
Poland
Global Expert

Miguel Viella
Principal
Phone + 34 93 24013-00
Email viella@miebach.com
Miebach Consulting, S.A.U.
Josep Irla i Bosch 1-3, 1ª planta
Barcelona, 08034
Spain
Transition Planning
Continuity throughout change
When planning changes to your logistics activities, it is essential to have a clear vision of how and what resources are needed to resume or continue operations with minimal impact to your customers, employees and operational results. Miebach Consulting creates a detailed implementation plan and prepares for challenges throughout the process. By this, we are able to provide active ramp-up support to your staff, maintain continuity in your service levels, and successfully manage the cost, timespan, and overall impact of the transition.
Comprehensive implementation plan
From concept to implementation, the complex matrix of details are critical not only for the operational changes, but for the impact on personnel as well as information flow. Analyzing inventory, operational schedules, IT systems, and timing allows for the development of a comprehensive implementation plan. This plan includes staffing assignments, adequate training and the coordination of support.
Benefits
- Ensure no missed deliveries and maintain OTIF percentages
- Minimize the need for overtime or temporary increases in headcount
- Protect the business case for the transformation
- Transition smoothly to new faculty or system
- Reduce risk through proper identification and mitigation plans

Local Expert

Lukas Jatta
Principal
Phone +48 32 43004-19
Email jatta@miebach.com
Miebach Consulting Sp. z o.o.
Wroclawska 8
Gliwice, 44-100
Poland
Global Expert

Frank Sonnefeld
Director
Phone +49 69 273992-0
Email sonnefeld@miebach.com
Miebach Consulting GmbH
Untermainanlage 6
Frankfurt am Main, 60329
Germany
Warehouse Design
Translating business strategies into logistics
For decades, Miebach Consulting has focused on providing clients with efficient warehouses that are designed by an organization that ensures thought leadership in logistic processes and technologies. To this day, warehouse design remains a core service of our organization. For us, the design of the warehouse does not start with the layout or level of automation. Rather, we start by translating your future business strategy into tangible facility requirements, and then by looking at the strategies and processes to best fulfill these design requirements.
Automation level follows Processes
The design process starts with understanding how your business and manufacturing plans will evolve in the long-term to define the future design requirements of the plant. Miebach then develops proper processes and efficient material flows in order to ensure the site logistics will meet your future needs. Only after this is defined, alternatives are proposed as to how technology could maximize your return on the transformation of the site.
Benefits
- Increased throughput and productivity
- Proper level of investment for each functional area which maximizes return
- Detailed implementation plan including phasing
- Clear and definitive specifications as a basis for tendering
- Maximizing the efficiency of existing and future facility footprint

Local Expert

Martin Mazurek
Senior Consultant
Phone +48 32 43004-19
Email mazurek@miebach.com
Miebach Consulting Sp. z o.o.
Wroclawska 8
Gliwice, 44-100
Poland
Global Expert

Miguel Viella
Principal
Phone + 34 93 24013-00
Email viella@miebach.com
Miebach Consulting, S.A.U.
Josep Irla i Bosch 1-3, 1ª planta
Barcelona, 08034
Spain
Warehouse Management Systems
Ensuring Best Practices
Miebach Consulting is instrumental in helping define and select a suitable IT solution for warehouse management. We advise from strategy to go-live, independent of supplier. We work alongside the client to outline target requirements for processes, structures, systems, and IT service providers in specification sheets. Our experts are familiar with various warehouse management systems, from the largest brands to local or industry specialists. We work together to determine the most suitable software suppliers through a multi-stage request for quotations and a closely supported selection process.
Support along the way
By providing professional moderation for meetings with bidders and support in contractual negotiations, we ensure an effective IT selection process. We utilize workshops to ensure high quality specifications when creating specification sheets. We create the test plan, and accept responsibility for neutral coordination with all system partners. This allows us to support you in quality assurance and go-live.
Benefits
- Selection of ideal software based upon specific operational needs
- Reduction of risk due to clear specifications in the tender documents
- Maximum price security through fixed price agreements in the tender process
- Development of a business case to ensure ROI and improvement to profitability
- Integration of all MHE solutions with operational and administrative processes

Local Expert

Jacek Olszewski
Principal
Phone +48 32 43004-19
Email olszewski@miebach.com
Miebach Consulting Sp. z o.o.
Wroclawska 8
Gliwice, 44-100
Poland
Global Expert

Christina Schühle
Principal
Phone +1 317 423-3126
Email schuehlec@miebach.com
Miebach Consulting Inc.
151 N. Delaware Suite 800
Indianapolis, IN 46204
United States