Process optimisation in Peine: streamline your workflows without stopping production
Between Hanover and Brunswick, metal fabricators, component suppliers, trades businesses and merchants work with systems that have grown side by side over the years. We capture the workflow where it actually happens — on the shop floor, in the warehouse, at the desk — name the places where work is done twice, and then implement what pays off for you.
Peine sits between Hanover and Brunswick, and the district town owes its economic profile to that location: manufacturing built around steel and metal, a broad trades sector, mid-sized merchants and businesses that live off the A2 motorway connection. What these companies have in common is rarely a missing programme. It is the way the existing programmes work together — or fail to. A job is created in the office, travels to the shop floor as a printout, comes back with handwritten additions and is typed in a second time in the evening. Those handovers are exactly where we start. Our office in Söhlde is around 20 kilometres away (project experience), which is why we look at a workflow where it happens instead of having it described to us over the phone.
The installation job is captured where it happens
20 km
from our office in Söhlde to Peine (project experience)
A2
motorway link towards Hanover and Brunswick
On site
captured in works, warehouse and office
Fixed price
for implementation after the analysis
Why the topic looks different around Peine
Anyone talking about workflows in Peine is almost always talking about material. Steel processing and metal fabrication have shaped the location for generations, and they bring a characteristic that other sectors do not share: every job comes with evidence. Cutting lists, weighing slips, material certificates, inspection and acceptance records accompany a case from enquiry to invoice — and they still have to be findable years later. In many companies these documents live in three worlds at once: on paper in a folder, as a scan on a drive and as an attachment in a mailbox. As long as nobody looks for them, this goes unnoticed. The moment a complaint, an audit or a query from accounting arrives, the same filing suddenly costs half a working day.
Then there is the other half of the Peine economy: trades businesses with installation work, technical merchants and wholesalers, and companies that live off the location on the A2. For them the bottleneck sits elsewhere, namely between the office and the outside world. The job is created in the office, the work happens on a building site, in the warehouse or on the road, and the feedback comes back in the evening as a note, a photo or a phone call. Every one of those reports is captured a second time before it reaches billing. That is not carelessness but the consequence of systems being bought at different times for different purposes. This is why we rarely replace whole systems. We work on the handovers in between — the process analysis page describes in detail how we go about it.
Metal processing and fabrication
Drawing, cutting list, production order, feedback from the shop floor: the route is long, and at every station something is added that nobody can attribute later. We follow one concrete job from enquiry to invoice and record every system change along the way.
Trades with installation work
The job sits in the office, the work happens at the customer's site. Hours, material and additional work come back on slips of paper or as photos and are typed up in the evening. In companies around Peine this is regularly the single largest item of avoidable working time.
Technical and wholesale trade
Enquiries arrive by phone and email, quotes are built in a spreadsheet, orders are entered again in the inventory system. Yesterday's price then sits in three files, and none of them is unambiguously the valid one.
Logistics along the A2
Delivery notifications, freight papers, load carriers, status updates: much of this runs through phone calls, because the systems of those involved do not talk to each other. We examine which of these messages can be produced automatically and which genuinely need a conversation.
Certificates and inspection records
Material certificates, weighing slips and acceptance records are the part of a case that has to live the longest. We make sure they are attached to the job rather than sitting in a folder whose logic is known to only one person in the building.
Administration and service providers
Cases travel through mailboxes, folders and approval loops. Nobody can say offhand how many are open and where they currently sit. A visible processing status replaces the round of phone calls at month end.
Typical starting situations in companies around Peine
The following situations come up particularly often around Peine. They are not an accusation but the normal state of a business that has grown over decades and worked well in that time. What is striking is only how persistent such detours are: there is almost always one person who introduced the detour years ago, and nobody who has questioned it since. That is precisely why every project with us begins with listening rather than with a proposal for a tool.
Starting situations as we hear them in conversations around Peine
Illustrative scenarios from typical project sequences (project experience), anonymised and without any client details.
How a project in Peine runs
The sequence is the same for a metal fabricator as for a merchant or an administration: understand first, then prioritise, then implement, then operate. What differs are the places we spend our time in and the people we talk to. In Peine those are often the colleagues in production and in the warehouse, rather than an in-house IT department. That is why we keep documents and agreements in language that works without jargon. The services page gives an overview of the individual building blocks.
Initial call
In about 30 minutes (project experience) we clarify which workflow costs you the most time, who is involved and which programmes are in play. If the matter can be settled in a single step, we say so in the same call. Otherwise you receive a written scope with dates and price.
Process analysis on site
We come to Peine and accompany the workplaces concerned during normal operations: office, work preparation, shop floor, warehouse, dispatch. We write down every step, every handover and every repeated entry of the same detail, and we explicitly ask about the cases that deviate from the standard. Nothing is judged at this stage.
Report and prioritisation
You receive a written report with the findings, the estimated annual effort per finding and a list of measures in the recommended order. We go through it together and agree what is tackled first. The report belongs to you and remains usable even if you award the implementation elsewhere.
Implementation at a fixed price
For every commissioned measure the price is fixed in writing before we start, because scope and system landscape are known after the analysis. Testing is done with real cases from your business, not with sample data. Before acceptance there is a short set of instructions for those involved, so the solution arrives in daily work.
Rollout and operation
We accompany the first weeks in live operation, because that is where the exceptions show up. After that we take over ongoing support on request: monitoring the transfers we set up, reporting runs that fail to happen, and adjusting whenever something changes in your systems. Details are on operations and maintenance.
In about 30 minutes (project experience) we clarify which workflow costs you the most time, who is involved and which programmes are in play. If the matter can be settled in a single step, we say so in the same call. Otherwise you receive a written scope with dates and price.
We come to Peine and accompany the workplaces concerned during normal operations: office, work preparation, shop floor, warehouse, dispatch. We write down every step, every handover and every repeated entry of the same detail, and we explicitly ask about the cases that deviate from the standard. Nothing is judged at this stage.
You receive a written report with the findings, the estimated annual effort per finding and a list of measures in the recommended order. We go through it together and agree what is tackled first. The report belongs to you and remains usable even if you award the implementation elsewhere.
For every commissioned measure the price is fixed in writing before we start, because scope and system landscape are known after the analysis. Testing is done with real cases from your business, not with sample data. Before acceptance there is a short set of instructions for those involved, so the solution arrives in daily work.
We accompany the first weeks in live operation, because that is where the exceptions show up. After that we take over ongoing support on request: monitoring the transfers we set up, reporting runs that fail to happen, and adjusting whenever something changes in your systems. Details are on operations and maintenance.
Entry point for companies around Peine · net plus VAT
- Captured where the work happens: office, shop floor, warehouse, vehicle
- Media breaks, duplicate entry and search time named and quantified
- Written report with a prioritised list of measures
- A fixed price for every implementation before it starts
One clearly defined workflow at a single site costs 1,900 € net, including the initial call, the on-site review in Peine, the evaluation, the written report and the joint review session. Larger reviews spanning several departments are agreed in writing beforehand. Implementation afterwards begins at 4,900 € net per automation or interface, ongoing support at 190 € net per month. All prices net plus VAT; details on the pricing overview.
Prices as of September 2026. Ongoing services are booked individually and can be cancelled monthly; there is no minimum term.
What proximity actually delivers day to day
Proximity is not a marketing argument but a time factor. A workflow that takes place half of the time in a production hall cannot be captured seriously in a video call: you do not see the stack of paper next to the machine, you do not hear the query at the neighbouring workstation, and you never get to hear about the exceptions, because in a scheduled meeting nobody talks about their workarounds. From our office in Söhlde we are quickly in Peine, Ilsede, Vechelde or Lengede. That changes the collaboration in three respects.
Appointments that fit your day
Capturing a production workflow is more productive first thing at the start of a shift than in the afternoon; capturing an office workflow works better once the morning rush is over. Because the drive is short, we work around your day rather than our timetable.
A contact instead of a ticket system
You speak to the person who captured your workflow and who knows your system landscape. There is no transfer to an anonymous queue and no need to explain the situation from scratch with every query.
Coming back at short notice
If it turns out after the rollout that an exception occurs more often than expected, we come and look at it instead of reconstructing it in writing. At a distance of around 20 kilometres (project experience) that is a matter of hours, not weeks.
Travel and appointments around Peine
Where we usually start in Peine
The first step is almost never the grand undertaking. It is a single problem area that visibly eats time and can be solved within a manageable scope. In metal fabrication that is often feedback from production, in the trades it is time recording, in wholesale it is quoting, and in administration it is filing. Depending on the finding, the next topic is process automation for recurring manual work, interfaces between programmes that currently run side by side, or data integration where the same detail is maintained in several places. If paper is in the way, it is document digitisation; if the overview is missing, metrics and reporting. If a core system is falling out of support, the topic is legacy replacement.
- Feedback from production without a second entry in the evening
- Hours and material captured where they arise
- Quotes and prices have one unambiguous source instead of three files
- Certificates and records attached to the job, not to a folder
- Delivery notes and invoices reach accounting without retyping
- Reports emerge from the data instead of manual work at month end
- The status of a case is visible without having to ask anyone
From the shop floor into the system, without stopping production
The most common worry in conversations with companies around Peine is not the price but the standstill. Nobody can halt production for two weeks in order to introduce a new way of working. That is why we build changes so that the old route keeps running at first: the new capture is introduced at one workplace or for one type of job, tested with real cases, and only extended once it has proven itself in daily work. If something fails, the previous route still carries. That caution costs a little more time during rollout and saves the unwinding that follows when a company is switched over completely from one morning to the next.
- Rollout at one workplace or for one type of job, then extension
- Testing with real cases from your business instead of sample data
- The previous route stays in place until the new one carries
- Short instructions in the language of those involved, not in jargon
| Task | On site in Peine | Remote |
|---|---|---|
| Capturing workflows in production, warehouse and dispatch | recommended | of limited use |
| Capturing purely office-based workflows | possible | works well |
| Reviewing the report | usual | by video on request |
| Setting up and testing a transfer | if required | usually remote |
| Rollout and training for those involved | recommended | suitable for refresher sessions |
| Ongoing support and fault resolution | if required | the standard route |
Which workflow costs you the most time in Peine right now?
Describe it to us in a few sentences. In the initial call we tell you frankly whether a process analysis is the right step or whether the matter can be settled more briefly — and what it would cost in your case.
From Peine into the region
Peine is close by for us: around 20 kilometres (project experience) from our office in Söhlde. Ilsede, Vechelde and Lengede are similarly quick to reach. The other focus areas in south-eastern Lower Saxony are within driving distance too — for companies outside that radius we work remotely, and the approach itself stays the same.
- Ilsede
- Vechelde
- Lengede
- Hildesheim
- Hanover
- Brunswick
- Salzgitter
- Göttingen
The decisive hint is rarely given in the meeting room. It is given next to the machine, when somebody remarks in passing: we write that down separately here as well.