The highly regarded Fraunhofer Institutes are widely known as a hotbed of talent and a starting point for spin-offs. This was also the case for ebp-consulting GmbH. In 2001, the two managing partners, Frank Gehr and Jochen Braun, founded the Stuttgart-based consulting firm, which has grown to become one of Germany's finest management consultancies and has received several awards. The main focuses of this globally active consulting firm are the processed-optimised restructuring and transformation of logistics in the production and procurement sectors as well as the entire supply chain (SCM) of industrial companies and corporate Networks.