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In the year 2000: our vision

A consulting firm that not only advises its clients on strategy and process optimization, but can also implement the processes developed with the help of leading standard software solutions - and all this within the shortest possible time.
This is exactly what KPS still stands for today: accelerating projects enormously at all levels and implementing them successfully and holistically - from digital strategy to turnkey processes and solutions to technology implementation.

Once upon a time, 20 years ago...

Year 2000

Actually, the year 2000 was a very turbulent one, also for the consulting industry. The rocket-like rise of SAP during the 1990s slowed down. The euphoria surrounding Internet and new technology companies ended in the bursting of a huge speculative bubble.

Foundation of KPS

KPS was nevertheless founded this year by Leonardo Musso, Michael Tsifidaris, Dietmar Müller and Uwe Grünewald. They all had many years of experience in the consulting industry. They were driven by the common conviction that business transformation projects could be implemented faster and more efficiently.

Our mission

Extract from the homepage in 2000: " ... a complete consulting service in the environment of the standard software SAP from one source ... from conception to project management and process optimization to implementation, the portfolio includes all services that make an IT project a success."

KPS Rapid-Transformation

Our turnover in the first year was still quite slim and amounted to 1.2 million. But then large customers such as Bosch, Webasto or Lufthansa quickly followed and the next year the turnover increased by a gigantic 400%! Our KPS Rapid-Transformation® method was born in our Düsseldorf headquarters.

Pioneer in fashion and retail

With the Columbus transformation project at Hugo Boss, we laid the foundation for our subsequent market leadership in the fashion and retail sector. For the first time worldwide, we implemented the two SAP industry solutions Fashion and Retail at the same time and integrated all processes. The close partnership with SAP paved the way for our success.

Further milestones in the company history

Our first logo

2000

Our first official logo additionally contained the classic consulting levels and of course the explanation of the KPS letters - concepts, projects and systems from one source.

KPS becomes a public limited company

2007

KPS Consulting GmbH takes over Haitec AG and Autinform in a reverse-take-over procedure and from this point on operates as a public company listed on the Frankfurt stock exchange under the name KPS AG. The company headquarters are moved to Munich.

E-Commerce and Customer Experience

2014

Our turnover exceeded the 100 million euro mark. With the acquisition of the e-commerce agency getit in Dortmund, an SAP Hybris Premium Partner, we expanded our consulting offering very early on to include the digital areas of commerce and customer experience. KPS now already had 500 consultants.

Kopenhagen and Barcelona

2016

We succeeded in acquiring the kps.com domain and our internationalization proceeded at a rapid pace: in the same year, colleagues from Saphira Consulting A/S in Copenhagen joined us, followed in 2017 by our Spanish team of ICE consultants in Barcelona.

Strategic competence

2017

We complement our consulting portfolio with the strategic competence of Infront Consulting from Hamburg and since then we are one of the very few consultancies on the European market that can support customers from strategy to turnkey processes to individual system transactions.

Envoy Digital Ltd. from London

2018

February 2018: London-based Envoy Digital Ltd., SAP's leading partner in the UK's commerce sector, joins KPS and strengthens our expertise in all aspects of digital customers: From e-commerce and user experience to marketing, sales and services. Since October 2019, our team in the UK has proudly called itself KPS UK.

Expansion to Spain

2017

With the acquisition of ICE Consultants Europe SL in Barcelona, we are strengthening our SAP expertise and gaining numerous customers in Spain, South America and France. We have succeeded in entering new industries such as fast moving consumer goods as well as plant construction and the manufacturing industry.

20 years KPS

2020

Over the years, we have worked hand in hand with our customers, all of whom are leading companies in their industries, and have achieved a great deal. We have developed from a small consulting firm with German roots into an internationally active company with experts not only from the most diverse fields but also from the most diverse nations. We are proud of this colourful and successful company that has been created over the last 20 years.

1300Consultants
180EUR million Turnover
14 Locations
32 Nationalities

"Today, we already generate around 42 percent of our revenues internationally; the digital transformation remains a strong growth driver for the consulting market and our customers demand and need support on their way into the digital age."

Leonardo Musso - Executive Board KPS AG

12 October 2019, opening of the new building at Lake Phoenix

"In our Customer Experience Centers in combination with the KPS transformationLab in Dortmund, real collaboration between our customer and consultant teams is lived according to the New-Work Concept. Here customers work interactively on the design of their future end-to-end processes and experience them live in the system. In this way they experience and "grasp" their digital, intelligent company of tomorrow".

Michael Tsifidaris - Chairman KPS AG

Contact

With around 1,300 consultants in 11 countries, KPS is continuously expanding its market position. KPS is Europe's leading transformation partner for companies that want to align their business model centrally to the customer within the shortest possible time and implement innovative, digital processes and technologies.

Our partners

KPS is part of a successful partner network and works together with SAP, Intershop, Adobe, Microsoft, Annex Cloud as well as Celum or GK Software, among others.