WELCOME TO CONCEPT-4-YOU
We enable AI-empowered Supply Management Excellence.
Management consulting for artificial intelligence in procurement and iExecutive Interim Management
About Falk Kohler
Executive Transformation Leader for AI-powered Procurement & Supply Chain Excellence — founder-led, process-driven, effectively delivered.
I am the Founder and Managing Director of Concept-4-You (C4Y) and an internationally experienced Executive and Transformation Leader with more than 30 years of leadership experience, including over 15 years in C-level roles. My focus is on AI-powered procurement and supply chain transformation, operational excellence, and delivering measurable business impact.
C4Y represents the natural evolution of my professional career: a founder-led management consulting boutiquespecializing in artificial intelligence and AI-driven supply chain transformation. We combine AI, end-to-end processes, interim procurement management, and executive leadership into one integrated approach.
Our objective is to align strategy, processes, organization, and technology in a way that delivers fast, tangible resultswhile simultaneously building sustainable, future-ready capabilities.
In senior leadership roles at global corporations such as Siemens, Philips, and Hillenbrand, I have led large-scale transformation programs, strategic sourcing initiatives, as well as M&A integrations and carve-outs.
This experience shapes the C4Y approach: AI is not introduced as a tool, but embedded effectively along end-to-end procurement and supply chain processes. As an Interim Executive, I take responsibility from within the organization and orchestrate a carefully selected and centrally governed Procurement Excellence Network.
C4Y stands for transformation with substance:
Connect · Perform · Transform — empowered by AI.
Our AI Expertise
Our AI Expertise Is Rooted in the Process
As a management consulting boutique specializing in artificial intelligence, interim procurement management, and AI-driven supply chain transformation, Concept-4-You structures the application of AI along a clear end-to-end procurement and supply chain model.
The objective is to achieve a significant increase in performance and value contribution, while at the same time delivering substantially higher process efficiency.
Artificial intelligence is applied purposefully along the entire value chain — from early design and strategy phasesthrough to operational execution and performance steering.
AI Use Cases
1. AI-enabled Design-to-Value
3. AI-enabled Supplier Selection
2. AI-enabled Sourcing Strategy
Identify Value Potential Early and Secure It Strategically
part of our management consulting services for artificial intelligence, interim procurement management, and AI-driven supply chain transformation, we apply AI to create transparency around cost and value drivers, enabling well-founded decisions at an early stage.
Key Focus Areas:
- AI-driven cost and value analysis
- Predictive demand analytics
- Digital twin and AI-simulated design
- AI-based product benchmarking
👉 Value Contribution:
Early identification of value levers, higher strategic precision, and improved decision quality — before costs and complexity are locked in.
2. AI-enabled Sourcing Strategy
3. AI-enabled Supplier Selection
2. AI-enabled Sourcing Strategy
Data-driven strategies for markets, categories, and suppliers
Artificial intelligence creates transparency across market dynamics, risks, and strategic options.
As a management consulting boutique specializing in artificial intelligence, interim procurement management, and AI-driven supply chain transformation, we identify and realize AI potential based on concrete process steps—either as part of a broader AI supply chain transformation or within interim procurement leadership assignments.
Key Focus Areas:
- AI-driven market intelligence
- Predictive supply market analytics
- AI-based risk assessment
- AI-based supplier categorization
👉 Value Contribution:
Robust, future-ready sourcing strategies with improved risk management, higher resilience, and clear prioritization of value contribution.
3. AI-enabled Supplier Selection
3. AI-enabled Supplier Selection
3. AI-enabled Supplier Selection
Objective, transparent, and scalable supplier selection
Artificial intelligence enables fact-based decisions across performance, ESG criteria, and risk exposure, creating transparency and consistency in supplier selection.
Key Focus Areas:
- AI-based supplier scenario modelling
- AI-driven ESG analysis
- AI-based supplier benchmarking
- AI-driven supplier pre-qualification
👉 Value Contribution:
Higher selection quality, reduced risks, and stronger ESG integration — while significantly accelerating decision-making within AI-driven supply chain transformation.
4. AI-enabled Source-to-Contract
4. AI-enabled Source-to-Contract
3. AI-enabled Supplier Selection
Turning strategies into effective awards and contracts
Artificial intelligence enhances negotiation quality, comparability, and compliance, enabling structured, fact-based decision-making throughout the Source-to-Contract process.
Key Focus Areas:
- AI-enabled negotiation support
- Predictive supplier behavior modelling
- AI-based compliance assessment
- AI-enabled supplier comparison factors
👉 Value Contribution:
Improved negotiation outcomes, higher contract quality, and reduced compliance risks — combined with significantly increased efficiency across the S2C process, positioning AI-driven Source-to-Contract as an enterprise-wide enablerwithin AI-powered supply chain transformation.
5. AI-driven Material Management
4. AI-enabled Source-to-Contract
5. AI-driven Material Management
Intelligently managing availability, quality, and inventory
Artificial intelligence increases stability and efficiency across the operational supply chain by enabling data-driven planning and control.
Key Focus Areas:
- AI in Plan-for-Every-Part (PFEP)
- AI-driven inventory management
- AI in demand forecasting and order optimization
- AI-based material quality management
👉 Value Contribution:
Higher delivery reliability, reduced inventory levels, more stable quality, and improved end-to-end planning reliability across the entire AI-driven supply chain transformation.
6. AI-driven Purchase-to-Pay
4. AI-enabled Source-to-Contract
5. AI-driven Material Management
Efficiency and transparency in operational procurement
Artificial intelligence enables automation and data-driven control across the entire Purchase-to-Pay process, increasing efficiency and transparency in day-to-day procurement operations.
Key Focus Areas:
- AI-based supplier KPI dashboards
- AI-driven supplier collaboration
- AI-based supplier quality management
- AI-driven invoice processing
👉 Value Contribution:
Significantly reduced process costs across the entire AI-driven supply chain transformation, higher transparency, fewer manual interventions, and improved control of supplier performance.
Our ServiceS
1. AI-empowered Transformation
3. Procurement Academy & Webinars
2. Executive Interim Management
Driving sustainable change across processes, organization, and people
AI-empowered transformation goes beyond technology. It integrates strategy, processes, organization, and capabilitiesto ensure sustainable impact across procurement and supply chain. We combine executive leadership, structured transformation management, and AI enablement to drive change from within the organization.
Key Focus Areas:
- Executive interim leadership and transformation governance
- AI-empowered maturity development
- Stakeholder alignment and decision governance
- Performance, people, and capability development
- Change management and adoption
- Supply Management AI Academy
👉 Value Contribution:
Accelerated transformation with clear accountability, faster realization of benefits, and sustainable capability build-up—ensuring that AI-enabled improvements deliver lasting business impact across the enterprise.
2. Executive Interim Management
3. Procurement Academy & Webinars
2. Executive Interim Management
We take on executive leadership on a temporary basis to deliver transformations effectively from within the organization.
As Interim CPO, Interim Procurement Management Leader, AI Supply Chain Transformation Lead, or Supply Chain Executive, we assume full accountability for execution and results.
Key Focus Areas:
- Leading AI-powered procurement and supply chain transformations
- Stabilizing organizations during critical phases
- Delivering measurable EBIT and performance improvements
👉 Value Contribution:
Interim management is our strongest lever for effective execution—with clear accountability, high execution speed, and a sustainable contribution to business results.
3. Procurement Academy & Webinars
3. Procurement Academy & Webinars
3. Procurement Academy & Webinars
As a management consulting boutique specializing in artificial intelligence and AI-driven supply chain transformation, we enable structured and scalable capability building for organizations and teams — as an integral part of ongoing transformation initiatives.
Key Components:
- Procurement Academy with access to proven templates, frameworks, and methodologies
- Executive and expert webinars on AI use cases, processes, and governance models
- Continuous content updates and extensions
- Optional: moderated peer exchanges and expert sessions
👉 Value Contribution:
This model enables continuous learning, strengthens execution capability within the organization, and sustainably reduces dependency on external consulting.
Value & Results
Holistic Value Contribution
Sustainable Results Contribution
Sustainable Results Contribution
The model ensures that AI is not applied in a one-dimensional way, but delivers a holistic value contribution for both the customer and the organization — aligned across:
- Productivity
- Quality
- Availability
- Sustainability
- Innovation
Sustainable Results Contribution
Sustainable Results Contribution
Sustainable Results Contribution
The AI-enabled End-to-End Procurement & Supply Chain Model connects strategy, execution, and performance steering within a single, integrated approach.
It provides the foundation for:
- Sustainable EBIT improvement
- Higher process efficiency
- Scalable transformation
— delivered through interim executive leadership and a carefully selected and centrally governed Procurement Excellence Network.
OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES
Connect · Perform · Transform
Perform — Holistic Value Contribution as the Foundation for Transformation
Connect — Understanding Before Changing
Our actions follow a clear principle: Connect · Perform · Transform.
It ensures that transformation does not remain theoretical, but is accepted, effective, and sustainably implemented.
Connect — Understanding Before Changing
Perform — Holistic Value Contribution as the Foundation for Transformation
Connect — Understanding Before Changing
As a management consulting boutique specializing in artificial intelligence, AI-driven supply chain transformation, and interim procurement management, we engage deeply with stakeholders at all levels of the organization. Our objective is to build a thorough and fact-based understanding of:
- Organizational culture and leadership logic
- Proces
As a management consulting boutique specializing in artificial intelligence, AI-driven supply chain transformation, and interim procurement management, we engage deeply with stakeholders at all levels of the organization. Our objective is to build a thorough and fact-based understanding of:
- Organizational culture and leadership logic
- Processes and operational reality
- Capabilities, roles, and responsibilities
- Performance levels and existing tensions
For us, transformation starts with listening, contextualizing, and understanding — not with predefined concepts.
Perform — Holistic Value Contribution as the Foundation for Transformation
Perform — Holistic Value Contribution as the Foundation for Transformation
Perform — Holistic Value Contribution as the Foundation for Transformation
Performance and results are at the core of our management consulting for artificial intelligence, interim procurement management, and AI-driven supply chain transformation.
They create credibility, trust, and acceptance as the basis for sustainable change.
For us, Perform means a holistic value contribution, where key success dimensions ar
Performance and results are at the core of our management consulting for artificial intelligence, interim procurement management, and AI-driven supply chain transformation.
They create credibility, trust, and acceptance as the basis for sustainable change.
For us, Perform means a holistic value contribution, where key success dimensions are managed in balance:
- Productivity — measurable efficiency gains and EBIT improvement
- Quality — stable performance, quality, and compliance
- Availability — supply security and supply chain resilience
- Sustainability — environmental and regulatory responsibility
- Innovation — development of future-ready solutions and supplier models
Only when these dimensions are addressed together does sustainable performance emerge — and with it, the necessary space for transformation.
Transform — Creating Sustainable Change, Tailored to the Organization
Perform — Holistic Value Contribution as the Foundation for Transformation
Perform — Holistic Value Contribution as the Foundation for Transformation
Based on culture, maturity level, and the specific situation, we develop tailored transformation concepts—either as part of our management consulting for artificial intelligence or within interim procurement management roles.
These transformation concepts are:
- practical and execution-oriented
- organizationally and culturally aligned
- designed f
Based on culture, maturity level, and the specific situation, we develop tailored transformation concepts—either as part of our management consulting for artificial intelligence or within interim procurement management roles.
These transformation concepts are:
- practical and execution-oriented
- organizationally and culturally aligned
- designed for sustainable performance improvement
For us, AI-driven supply chain transformation does not mean change for the sake of change, but the lasting improvement of processes, capabilities, and results.
About US
Who We Are
Practical AI implementation with measurable business impact.
Practical AI implementation with measurable business impact.
Concept-4-You is a European, founder-led management consulting boutique specializing in artificial intelligence in procurement, interim procurement management, and AI-driven supply chain transformation, led by Falk Kohler.
We focus on AI-powered procurement, supply chain excellence, and interim executive leadership.
A core element of our a
Concept-4-You is a European, founder-led management consulting boutique specializing in artificial intelligence in procurement, interim procurement management, and AI-driven supply chain transformation, led by Falk Kohler.
We focus on AI-powered procurement, supply chain excellence, and interim executive leadership.
A core element of our approach is a carefully selected and centrally governed Procurement Excellence Network of experienced domain experts, which we deploy flexibly based on client needs and situations. This enables us to combine senior executive leadership with scalable functional expertise, while maintaining clear accountability from a single point of responsibility.
Practical AI implementation with measurable business impact.
Practical AI implementation with measurable business impact.
Practical AI implementation with measurable business impact.
As a management consulting boutique specializing in artificial intelligence, interim procurement management, and AI-driven supply chain transformation, we support organizations in the targeted introduction of AI across procurement and supply chain functions.
Our focus is on process-driven implementation along the end-to-end value chain. De
As a management consulting boutique specializing in artificial intelligence, interim procurement management, and AI-driven supply chain transformation, we support organizations in the targeted introduction of AI across procurement and supply chain functions.
Our focus is on process-driven implementation along the end-to-end value chain. Depending on the assignment, we combine interim executive leadership with precisely deployed expertise from our carefully selected and centrally governed Procurement Excellence Network—clearly orchestrated, results-oriented, and fully accountable through Concept-4-You.
Our Network – Procurement Excellence
Practical AI implementation with measurable business impact.
Our Network – Procurement Excellence
As a management consulting boutique specializing in artificial intelligence, interim procurement management, and AI-driven supply chain transformation, Concept-4-You operates a carefully selected and centrally governed Procurement Excellence Network of experienced functional and process experts.
Our experts cover a broad range of disciplin
As a management consulting boutique specializing in artificial intelligence, interim procurement management, and AI-driven supply chain transformation, Concept-4-You operates a carefully selected and centrally governed Procurement Excellence Network of experienced functional and process experts.
Our experts cover a broad range of disciplines — from category management and sourcing to analytics, digitalization, governance, change management, and capability building.
Why Concept-4-You
Practical AI implementation with measurable business impact.
Our Network – Procurement Excellence
- Unique combination of executive leadership and scalable expert capability. Senior, founder-led leadership complemented by precisely deployed domain expertise.
- One point of contact – one clear accountability.
Clear responsibility from strategy to execution, fully owned by Concept-4-You.
- Practical implementation instead of theoretical concep
- Unique combination of executive leadership and scalable expert capability. Senior, founder-led leadership complemented by precisely deployed domain expertise.
- One point of contact – one clear accountability.
Clear responsibility from strategy to execution, fully owned by Concept-4-You.
- Practical implementation instead of theoretical concepts
We focus on what works in real organizations, embedded in real processes.
- Strong focus on EBIT improvement and competitiveness
Every initiative is designed to deliver measurable business impact.
- AI, processes, organization, and people from a single source
An integrated approach that ensures sustainable and scalable transformation.
- Management consulting for artificial intelligence with substance
AI applied where it creates value — process-driven, leadership-led, and outcome-focused.