35 Business consulting in the area of quality and warranty, purchasing and production, research and development; business consulting in commercial project management; business consulting for construction projects; business consulting in the area of supply chain management, especially at the interfaces between manufacturers, suppliers and supplier networks; consulting in business management and interim management issues; market research and market studies; analysis of customer needs and technology trends; optimization of organizational structures and processes and development of a successful service network; development, optimization and further development of warranty, goodwill, guarantee and service contract issues in relation to strategy, organization, processes and systems in after-sales; preparation of project studies in relation to business issues; preparation of business feasibility studies; preparation of statistics; development of corporate strategies; management of business processes and related consulting; business process redesign; Management of business projects for third parties; analysis of business data, business information and business trends; compilation and analysis of information and data related to business management; consulting in the management of business challenges from strategic crisis to insolvency, such as crisis management, going concern assessment, reorganization expertise; development, anchoring and implementation of sustainability goals in corporate strategies and processes for the sustainable transformation of business models along the entire value chain; design and support of changes in organizational structures, processes and cultures; holistic optimization of preventive and reactive quality work for organizations, processes and products for manufacturing companies and their value chains; creation of data-driven evaluations and tools to answer strategic or operational questions up to the implementation of BI-based reporting or tool solutions; ensuring supply from strategic supplier selection, contract negotiations to active supplier management; developing sustainable business models in after sales such as the introduction of circular economy and remanufacturing; developing attractive services to increase service revenues