Emarticon - Your specialist for procurement and supply chain management

Emarticon - far-reaching procurement success through experience and know-how.

Emarticon is a consulting and interim management company specializing in strategic procurement and supply management. Founder & Head of Emarticon is Clemens Rinnebach, who carries out projects himself as well as with his team and network. Since March 2023 a cooperation agreement has existed between Emarticon and Operations & Consulting Munich GmbH (OCM). Since January 2024 Clemens Rinnebach is Partner at OCM where he brings in his network. Projects are carried out via the OCM team, which has full access to the Emarticon expert network. Our customers benefit from the combination of the latest consulting methods and the experience of Emarticon's consultants and interim managers.

Emarticon has a pool of over 30 highly qualified consultants. Emarticon stands out from other interim management and consulting networks because

  • all advisors have at least 10 years of consulting experience in the specialist field and also have many years of line experience,
  • our concepts always take the entire company into account and aim for long-term success.

When we say experience, we always mean the personal experience of the consultant or manager.

Therefore Emarticon

Successful customer projects with real added value

In many companies high potentials for cost reduction can be found. Being specialists for Strategic Procurement and Supply Management we, the team and network around Clemens Rinnebach, find this potential and enable you to use it. Thereby we increase profit and efficiency of your company.

Our success is based on many years of experience in consulting and management

As a customer of Emarticon, you benefit from a unique mix of experience from senior management functions and top management consulting. Unlike other procurement consulting companies, we are not only consultants, but - if necessary - also interim managers. We have the necessary experience for this, which sets us apart. We know what works in practice and can avoid cumbersome ways. We use this knowledge to rethink procurement and the supply chain management. Our concepts reflect that.

My passion is to get people and companies to work together efficiently.

Clemens Rinnebach

Senior Consultant & Manager
Managing Director & Founder

Changes are easy thanks to our management approach: appreciative & pragmatic

Improvement always means change. However, there is hardly any change in the company that does not encounter resistance to change.

In these situations, we see ourselves as real team players, because the appreciative handling of arguments and counter-arguments brings the best solution. Necessary changes are made easy for your employees with this management approach.

We achieve long-term effects

Our concepts that guide us, correspond to our mission statement. We may be procurement experts, but we always have an eye on the entire company. This enables us to achieve long-term effects. This way of thinking reflects our experience and helps to change deadlocked structures. We call this "rethinking purchasing and the supply chain".

With our methodology we have a toolbox ready – comparable to a craftsman: We know where to look and how to approach the matter. Nevertheless, we are flexible enough to respond to each situation individually.

Tailor-made solutions through our virtual organization

Every project is different, every customer is different. Some projects require very intensive five-day work on site, other projects can be processed remotely in individual days or require very flexible, fluctuating effort to be successful. It is often unclear how long something will take and what resources will be required. We discuss these boundary conditions with you before the start of a project. Because of our virtual organization, unlike most other consulting firms, we are able to fully engage with it.

In other words, we don't send you large, expensive teams when it's not needed.

Our price-performance ratio – high performance at good conditions

We do not have an expensive back office and therefore we can offer our high-quality services at very good conditions.

We have highly qualified and very experienced managers and consultants for your projects at costs that are well below what you pay for even junior consultants at large consulting firms.

Clemens Rinnebach: A Passion for Excellence in Supply-Management

In 2017, I founded Emarticon with the aim of helping companies achieve long-term success. There were two key findings:

First, in our high-tech, globalized and extremely rapidly changing world, the quality of cooperation between companies is an outstanding success factor. Secondly, this success factor is underestimated in many companies in its importance and complexity.

The name Emarticon stands for the art of good advice and good management. The art lies in not only managing the mission rationally –fact based– but taking the employees with you, ideally inspiring them, ie not forgetting the emotion.

Clemens Rinnebach: A Passion for Excellence in Supply-Management

In 2017 I founded Emarticon with the aim of helping companies to run their supply operations as long-term efficient as possible. There were two key findings as cornerstones:

Firstly, in our highly technical, globalized and extremely rapidly changing world, the quality of cooperation between companies is an outstanding success factor. Secondly, the importance and complexity of this success factor is underestimated in many companies.

The name Emarticon stands for the art of good advice and good management. The trick is to not only manage the mission rationally - based on facts - but to also take the employees with you, ideally to inspire them, ie not to forget the emotion.

Clemens Rinnebach: My background

I have studied Electrical Engineering (Dipl.-Ing.) with a focus on information technology at the Leibniz Universität Hannover as well as Finance at the University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School (MBA). Then I worked as a consultant at BCG (Boston Consulting Munich and San Francisco) and at AT Kearney.

After my work in the technology companies Motorola and Infineon I took over at the Siemens AG and Siemens Enterprise Communications GmbH as Vice President Strategic Procurement with a responsibility for a purchase volume of over EUR 500 million and a purchasing organization in over 160 countries.

As a Head of Sourcing at HypoRealEstate and Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG, I managed to set up and establish the procurement function as a key lever in the turnaround of the bank. Then I was as overall CPO at Allgeier SE, an IT group with around 7,000 employees.

From 2015 to December 2023 I worked as an independent management consultant and interim manager since 2017 Managing Director of Emarticon GmbH. Since January 2024 I am Partner at Operations & Consulting Munich GmbH (OCM). The Emarticon network continues to support customers and is now fully available to the OCM.

I was active in the international sport of judo for more than twenty years. Today, I am an active fitness athlete and love skiing and mountain hiking. I am particularly interested in the combination of physics and philosophy. In the Ivy Circle Germany I am committed to the cultural and social exchange between American and British universities as head of the Ivy Circle Munich.

That's what my customers say about me

"For me, Mr. Rinnebach is an all-purpose problem solver in strategic procurement."

Friedrich Spalke, ex-SVP Siemens, ex-CPO Huawei, ex-CPO Philips

"Mr. Rinnebach is above average in terms of performance and resilience. He is characterized by a high level of personal commitment. Through his experience, he showed the right amount of calm, clarity and determination in difficult situations. I can recommend Mr. Rinnebach's work without any reservations."

Dr. Rolf Winterhoff, Vice President Supply Chain Schölly Fiberoptic GmbH

“Mr. Rinnebach pursues his goals consistently and with the necessary perseverance. In his role as interim manager, he actively responded to the employees and made the team perform well. I can recommend his work as a management consultant and interim manager.”

Joachim Schoenfelder, Head of Department at HDI Group

"I am impressed by Mr. Rinnebach's friendly charisma, even in difficult situations and even when there is great resistance to change."

Carl Georg Dürschmidt, Entrepreneur, CEO and major Shareholder Allgeier SE

"I asked Mr. Rinnebach to stay and help to a much greater extent than we had originally commissioned him to do. That's actually enough as a recommendation. However, I would like to add: What I particularly valued, in addition to his IT-sourcing skills, were the technical skills that were crucial for my project.”

Paul Boot, Procurement Manager KPS Capital