What Kepler Consulting does

Kepler Consulting (legal entity KEPLER CONSULTING GROUP) is a privately held French boutique management consulting firm, organized as a Société par actions simplifiée (SAS) with share capital of €8,464,857, headquartered at 32 boulevard Haussmann, 75009 Paris. Founded in 2007 and led by Lionel Muller as Publication Director, the firm sells end-to-end operational performance transformation engagements to large enterprises — industrial groups, banks, retailers and public-sector organizations — across Europe, the Americas and Asia, operating from four offices (Paris, Detroit, Chennai, Shanghai) with a team of approximately 50 consultants.

Kepler's offering is structured around a "Six Levers of Consulting Excellence" framework — Innovation, Procurement, Supply Chain, Operations, Digital/IA, and CSR/Sustainable Business Transformation — with People & Change as a transversal practice. The firm has codified proprietary methodologies including Lean Engineering, the New Business Factory, Design-to-Cost/Value, Eco-Design, a Modular Formulation Platform for cosmetics, and Tailor-Based TMO transformation-monitoring tools. A dedicated Digital and IA practice deploys AI agents, predictive analytics, optimization and ESG data consolidation in client mandates. Following the January 2022 acquisition of Leading, Kepler added an "Excellence commerciale" practice and an Analytics entity, extending downstream into commercial performance.

The firm generates revenue through bespoke, project-based consulting engagements priced per mandate (no public rate card), typically running 3 to 18 months. Its go-to-market is direct enterprise field sales supported by a content-marketing engine (KEPLER Mag, Business Cases, KEPLER Intelligence Center), paid retargeting on LinkedIn and Google, and marketing automation via Plezi. Geographies served include France, the broader EU, the United States, India and China, with the 2022 €2 million round from Odyssee Venture earmarked specifically for US and China expansion. Customer references span global cosmetics leaders, automotive Tier 1 suppliers, capital goods and medical-industrial manufacturers, French retail banks, agrifood majors, cosmetics retail/distribution players and a real-estate developer.

Name

Kepler Consulting

Legal name

KEPLER CONSULTING GROUP

Website

https://kepler-consulting.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Kepler Consulting is a Paris-based boutique consulting firm that delivers end-to-end operational performance transformations — innovation, procurement, supply chain, operations, digital/IA, CSR and people & change — to large industrial, banking, retail and public-sector clients across Europe, the Americas and Asia.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Management & Operations Consulting Engagements: Revenue is generated through bespoke, project-based consulting engagements with industrial, financial services, retail, real estate and public sector clients. Engagements typically span 3–18 months (per published case studies) and cover end-to-end operational performance topics (Innovation, Procurement, Supply Chain, Operations, Digital/AI, CSR, People & Change). Pricing is engagement-based and not publicly disclosed.
2. Commercial Excellence & Analytics Services: Following the 2022 acquisition of Leading, KEPLER generated a new 'Excellence commerciale' practice and an Analytics entity, extending its professional services revenue to commercial / sales performance and analytics engagements.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Kepler Consulting is a French boutique management consulting firm that helps large industrial and service companies improve performance end-to-end. It sells seven practice lines — Innovation, Procurement, Supply Chain, Operations, People & Change, CSR/Sustainable Business Transformation, and Digital and IA — delivered to corporate clients as bespoke consulting missions across 13 industry verticals.

Product overview

Kepler Consulting operates as a multi-practice consulting firm rather than a single unified software product. Its offering is organized as a portfolio of core consulting practices — Innovation Consulting, Procurement Consulting, Supply Chain Consulting, Operations Consulting, People & Change, CSR: Sustainable Business Transformation, and Digital and IA (Digital Performance & AI Consulting) — supported by content offerings (KEPLER Mag, Business Cases, KEPLER Intelligence Center) and two acquired capabilities: the Excellence commerciale practice and the Analytics entity, both formed via the 2022 acquisition of Leading. The Digital and IA practice ties the portfolio together by deploying AI agents, predictive maintenance tools, advanced planning and load/capacity simulation, cost analysis, supplier benchmarking, carbon tracking, and ESG data consolidation to deliver performance improvement across the other practices.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Innovation Consulting

Quantifiable outcome

• 15–30% reduction in time required to complete critical-path R&D / engineering / procurement workflows (Capital Goods / Medical-Industrial client, Lean Engineering approach).
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers16 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability7 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• LeadingcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 18 January 2022In January 2022 KEPLER acquired Leading to expand into the downstream part of the value chain. The integration formed a new 'Excellence commerciale' (commercial excellence) practice and created an Analytics entity within KEPLER.
• Bien-FondéminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerBien-Fondé, a Paris-based digital communication agency, designed and developed the kepler-consulting.com website (SAS with capital of €4,285, registered in Paris Trade and Companies Register under number 853 011 476).

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Sia Partners: Paris-headquartered boutique management and technology consulting firm with comparable multi-vertical coverage and a similar mix of strategy, operations, digital and analytics practices serving large European enterprises.
• Roland Berger: European-origin strategy and operations consultancy with deep industrial and supply chain practices, addressing the same industrial and consumer goods buyer base as KEPLER across Europe and internationally.
• Kearney: Global management consultancy historically strong in operations, procurement and supply chain—directly overlapping with KEPLER's Procurement, Supply Chain and Operations levers and its industrial client base.
• Oliver Wyman: Global management consulting firm combining operations, risk, strategy and digital practices; competes with KEPLER for the same enterprise operations and transformation mandates in financial services and industrials.
• Wavestone: French-headquartered consulting firm combining management and digital/IT advisory, with strong European enterprise and financial services coverage that directly mirrors KEPLER's customer base and offering.
• Kea & Partners: Paris-based boutique consultancy focused on operations, innovation and transformation for large French and international corporates—closely comparable in scale, practice mix and client profile to KEPLER.
• PMP Strategy: French boutique strategy and operations consultancy serving industrial and consumer goods clients on cost, supply chain and performance transformation—directly comparable to KEPLER's European mid-cap engagement profile.
• Argon Consulting: Specialised supply chain and operations consulting firm with comparable procurement, planning and S&OP expertise, competing for the same industrial and consumer goods transformation mandates.

Broad incumbents

• McKinsey & Company: Global strategy incumbent offering overlapping operations, procurement, digital and sustainability practices; competes with KEPLER on enterprise performance transformation mandates, but at significantly greater scale and brand recognition.
• Bain & Company: Global strategy and operations consultancy with adjacent procurement, supply chain and sustainability capabilities; a large incumbent bidder for the same kind of end-to-end performance transformation work that KEPLER targets.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Kepler_Csltg

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A2 records

Investments

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