H&Z Business Consulting

What H&Z Business Consulting does

H&Z Business Consulting is a privately-held German management consulting firm headquartered in Munich, operating under H&Z Group. Founded around 1999, the firm has built a 25+ year practice with 850+ employees across 25 locations in Europe and beyond, organized around four service pillars: Procurement, Performance Improvement, Digital & AI, and Corporate Restructuring (with an additional Sales & Customer Experience offering). The firm specializes in operational and procurement transformation for enterprise clients across six primary verticals — Automotive, Defence, Financial Services, Industrial Goods, Private Equity, and Rail — with named engagements for clients including Palfinger, B. Braun, Siltronic, Vossloh, BMW, Continental, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bahn, Geely, and Knorr-Bremse.

Underneath the consulting practice, H&Z layers a content and research engine built around the Pulse Check series (industry-specific benchmarking publications across Aerospace, Automotive, Defence, Financial Services, Industrial Goods, Procurement, and Rail) and a proprietary podcast, The Procurement Initiative Leaders. The technology stack is not a standalone product but a delivery substrate: Digital & AI capabilities — including Artificial Intelligence Applied, Process Intelligence & Data, and procurement/planning software implementation — are applied end-to-end within consulting engagements rather than sold as licensed software. In May 2026, H&Z extended this substrate through the acquisition of jupitos, a digital procurement solutions platform, which adds productized capability to the procurement pillar. AI is described as process automation and applied intelligence for client work, with no evidence of proprietary model development.

The business model is professional services revenue: project-based consulting fees structured as fixed-price or time-and-materials engagements with enterprise clients, sold via direct field sales, thought leadership content, industry events, and inbound web/contact funnels. H&Z markets through a multi-channel footprint spanning LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram, webinars, earned media, and proprietary publications, and holds memberships in The Transformation Alliance consortium. The firm is led by four Managing Directors — Harald Enz, Stefan Aichbauer, Stephan Deussen, and Verena Giovanazzi — with no disclosed parent company or institutional investor, indicating founder- or management-owned independent operation.

Name

H&Z Business Consulting

Legal name

H&Z Group

Website

https://huz.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

1999

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

H&Z Business Consulting is a privately-held German management consulting firm with 850+ employees across 25 European locations, providing procurement, performance improvement, digital & AI, and corporate restructuring services to enterprise clients in automotive, defence, financial services, industrial goods, private equity, and rail.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Management Consulting Services

NAICS

Management Consulting Services (54161), Other Management Consulting Services (541618), Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services (541611)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742), Services-Engineering, Accounting, Research, Management (8700)

akta.pro primary industry

Operations & Process Improvement Consulting (BPAHACAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Supply Chain & Procurement Consulting (BPAHACAC), ERP, CRM & Enterprise Applications Consulting (BPAHAEAI), Customer, Marketing & Sales Consulting (BPAHACAG)

Keywords

• Management consulting
• Procurement consulting
• Performance improvement
• Digital transformation consulting
• Corporate restructuring

Headquarters

HQ city

Munich

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Management Consulting Services: H&Z generates revenue through professional consulting engagements across procurement, performance improvement, digital & AI, and corporate restructuring services. Revenue is derived from project-based consulting fees typically structured as fixed-price or time-and-materials engagements with enterprise clients.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels10 records

Core offering

H&Z Business Consulting is a European management consulting firm that delivers professional services across Procurement (excellence, material cost reduction, cost value engineering, digital procurement), Performance Improvement (product improvement, operational excellence, organisational efficiency), Digital & AI (AI applied, process intelligence & data, procurement and planning software implementation), Corporate Restructuring, and Sales & Customer Experience. Services are delivered as project-based consulting engagements to enterprise clients across Automotive, Defence, Financial Services, Industrial Goods, Private Equity, and Rail verticals, supported by proprietary Pulse Check industry research and a 25-location European footprint.

Product overview

H&Z Business Consulting offers a unified consulting service portfolio organized around three core pillars: Procurement, Performance Improvement, and Digital & AI. The Procurement service includes sub-modules for Procurement Excellence, Material Cost Reduction, Cost Value Engineering, and Digital Procurement. Performance Improvement encompasses Product Improvement, Operational Excellence, and Organisational Efficiency. The Digital & AI service offers Artificial Intelligence Applied, Process Intelligence & Data, Procurement Software Implementation, and Planning Software Implementation. Additionally, the firm provides Corporate Restructuring and Sales & Customer Experience services. The company also offers industry-specific research through Pulse Checks and a podcast called The Procurement Initiative Leaders. In May 2026, H&Z acquired jupitos to strengthen its digital procurement transformation capabilities. H&Z is a management consulting firm, not a software product company, so these are consulting service offerings rather than software products.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• jupitos: Digital procurement solutions platform acquired by H&Z Group in 2026
• H&Z.digital

Products and services

• Procurement Core consulting service focused on unlocking external value for enterprise clients through smarter sourcing, stronger supply chain management, and procurement excellence across direct and indirect spend categories.
• Performance Improvement Core consulting service driving internal value creation through performance improvement across operations, engineering, cost optimisation, and organisational effectiveness for enterprise clients.
• Digital & AI Core consulting service that transforms business performance through intelligent digital solutions, applying AI, process intelligence, data analytics, and software implementation end-to-end across enterprise engagements.
• Corporate Restructuring Core consulting service guiding enterprises through critical transformations, turnaround recovery, and corporate restructuring programs.
• Sales & Customer Experience Core consulting service creating commercial systems that grow revenue and deepen customer loyalty for enterprise clients.

Quantifiable outcome

• 5,000+ successfully delivered projects
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles6 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability1 record

Feature2 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• The Transformation AllianceminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerH&Z Group is a member of The Transformation Alliance, a consulting consortium or alliance of consulting firms that collaborate on transformation and consulting engagements.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Roland Berger: Large European-origin strategy and operations consultancy with deep automotive and industrial coverage; overlaps with H&Z's verticals but offers a broader portfolio and global delivery footprint.
• McKinsey & Company: Global management consulting leader with deep operations, procurement, and digital practices; competes for the same enterprise transformation budgets across H&Z's verticals at materially greater brand and scale.
• A.T. Kearney: Global strategy and operations consultancy with a strong procurement and operations practice; competes with H&Z for enterprise transformation mandates but at much larger scale and global reach.
• Bain & Company: Global strategy and performance consulting firm with strong operations and procurement practices serving the same industrial and financial-services buyer base as H&Z.
• Alvarez & Marsal: Global professional services firm with a leading corporate restructuring and performance improvement practice that competes with H&Z's Corporate Restructuring and Operational Excellence offerings.
• Oliver Wyman: Global management consultancy combining strategy, operations and risk advisory; overlapping target customers in financial services and industrial goods, and competing on digital and procurement transformation mandates.

Direct peers

• ROI Management Consulting: European management consultancy focused on procurement and supply chain optimization, mirroring H&Z's procurement-heavy mix and target buyer profile of large industrial enterprises.
• Staufen.AG consulting plus academy: German operations and supply chain/procurement consultancy serving similar European industrial and automotive clients; overlaps directly with H&Z's Performance Improvement and Procurement service lines.
• Horváth: German-headquartered management consulting firm with comparable scale (~1,000+ employees) and strong overlap in performance improvement, operations, finance and procurement transformation across European industrial clients.
• Camelot Management Consultants: German-based management and IT consultancy with strong procurement, supply chain and SAP/digital transformation practices, competing for the same enterprise buyer as H&Z.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@hzmanagementconsulting
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/h&z-business-consulting
• Instagraminstagram.com/hz.consulting

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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