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Discipline

Legal, tax, finance, IT, marketing and development

Business Services

The functions that sit around production and decide it: contracts, accounting, investment appraisal, IT systems, technical communication and development. We clarify the need and hand it to the professional or provider entitled to deliver it — the advice itself stays with them.

6
Service modules, each orderable on its own
14
Marketplace categories deliver this discipline

Where it starts

How we approach this discipline

Legal, tax, finance, IT, marketing and development

  1. Diagnosis

    A manufacturing problem is rarely only a manufacturing problem. The delayed series launch hangs on unresolved tooling ownership in the supply contract, the rejected grant on an investment appraisal nobody put together to a standard that survives scrutiny, and the stalling ERP rollout on an IT project treated as a purchase order. These questions arise on the shop floor and are decided outside the industrial disciplines.

  2. Division of work

    That is why this discipline exists. We take up the facts, structure the requirement and hand it to a law firm, a tax practice, an IT house, an agency or a development laboratory from the marketplace. In law and tax that separation is not merely a stance but the law: legal and tax advice may be given only by the professionals admitted to do so. From us comes the preparation, never the advice.

  3. Safeguards

    The engagement or advisory relationship arises directly between you and the professional. We take no share of any fee and get no sight of the matter; we are paid, as everywhere on this platform, by the buying side. What remains is the documented requirement — so that a second quote becomes comparable on the same basis.

Working together

We do not earn on what we recommend

Advice and delivery are separate. We plan and tender in a manufacturer-neutral way; delivery is by a checked company from the marketplace. Anyone who earns on the equipment cannot recommend it neutrally.

Handover

Per module
  • Documentation handed overAlways
  • Acceptance criteria defined up frontBefore engagement
  • Commission from the provider sideNone
  • No commission from the provider side

    For planning and tendering we are paid by the client, not by the system vendor. A recommendation costs us nothing and earns us nothing.

  • Tendered manufacturer-neutral

    Specifications are written so that more than one provider can meet them. Offers are made comparable on one common evaluation matrix.

  • Results are handed over

    Process map, metric definitions, acceptance criteria — documented and handed over. Nothing stays in someone’s head or in a slide deck.

Marketplace

Which categories cover this discipline

Advice stays manufacturer-neutral; delivery is by a company that demonstrably commands it. None has been admitted so far — what stands here is the structure we search along for a project.

Categories in Business Services

Across discipline boundaries

Modules in Business Services reach into further disciplines

A project rarely ends at a discipline boundary. These categories sit in other disciplines but are commissioned directly by the modules above.

Across disciplines

What is demanded whatever the discipline

Some requirements hang not on the discipline but on the supply relationship. They come up in Business Services exactly as they do in every other discipline.

LkSG

German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act

Across disciplines

Companies in scope have to identify human-rights and environmental risks in their supply chain, take measures, and document all of it — not once, but continuously.

The obligation arises at the purchasing company but is passed on contractually: whoever supplies gets asked for evidence — as a manufacturer, as a service provider, as a staffing agency, as a freight forwarder. Which is why this is not a procurement topic but one that turns up at the award in every discipline and every sector.

Whether and to what extent the Act applies directly to you depends on your company and is a legal question — we do not advise on it. And we assert for no company that it meets the requirements: which evidence your project needs is something we work out with you, and it is checked case by case.

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