Welcome to DressenHeims Unternehmensberatung GmbH

Since 1997, we have been your partner for restructuring, performance improvement and the transformation of mid-sized trading companies. Today, we place particular emphasis on innovative AI projects.

Our expertise for your success

From analysing unstructured data to integrating artificial intelligence into your workflows, we deliver tailored solutions.

Restructuring

We help you realign your company and build a sustainable future.

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Restructuring begins with understanding – and succeeds with the right people

Successful restructuring begins with a clear understanding of the company’s financial and operational situation. That is why every project starts with a thorough analysis of earnings, cost structure, liquidity, working capital and profitability. At the same time, we examine the company’s key processes: Where are unnecessary costs being incurred? Which workflows are holding the company back? Where are responsibilities unclear, and which processes can be simplified, digitalised or automated?

This analysis provides the basis for a realistic target operating model with clear priorities and measurable actions. The objective is not merely to reduce costs in the short term. The company should become more profitable, productive and competitive on a sustainable basis.

The next decisive step is to build the team that will implement the transformation. We identify the most talented employees, regardless of hierarchy, age or current position. In addition to professional expertise, we look for accountability, adaptability, integrity and the ability to collaborate. These individuals form a balanced leadership team with clearly defined responsibilities, decision-making authority and shared objectives. Restructuring can only succeed sustainably when the people within the company understand, support and implement it.

DressenHeims Unternehmensberatung combines rigorous analysis, clear decisions and consistent implementation with the development of high-performing teams. This creates change that delivers immediate results and remains firmly embedded in the organisation.

Performance improvement

Performance improvement begins with an analysis of the business situation.

Performance improvement

Performance improvement begins with a thorough analysis

Sustainable performance improvement starts with a detailed analysis of the company’s financial position and competitive environment. We look beyond revenue and earnings to determine where capital is tied up, which business areas genuinely create value and how the company performs compared with its competitors.

Insufficient liquidity is often one of the most urgent challenges. We therefore analyse the use of working capital and the opportunities to release cash in the short term. Our assessment focuses on receivables, inventories, liabilities, payment terms and inventory turnover. For these matters, we work closely with our partner IPONTIX Corporate Finance.

We then evaluate the most important financial and operational indicators:

• Revenue growth and gross margin
• Contribution margin and EBITDA and EBIT margins
• Cash flow and available liquidity
• Receivables, inventory and payables days
• Cash conversion cycle
• Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) and Return on Capital Employed (ROCE)
• Productivity, such as revenue or gross profit per employee
• Cost structures, particularly sales and administrative expenses as a percentage of revenue

We compare these indicators with previous periods, the company’s targets and, where available, comparable competitors. This reveals the greatest opportunities to improve earnings, liquidity and productivity.

Based on these findings, we develop a concrete implementation plan. Measurable targets, appropriate actions, clear responsibilities and binding deadlines are defined for each indicator. Regular progress reviews ensure that analysis leads to tangible change and that this change produces sustainable financial results.

Transformation

Manage change in your company with our professional support.

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Transformation begins with clarity and honesty

Why are transformations so difficult? Often, the problem is not the strategy itself but the uncertainty created when necessary decisions are not communicated openly. Employees quickly notice when the financial situation is deteriorating or fundamental changes are approaching. If problems are concealed or played down, rumours, fear and mistrust develop.

If management is afraid to tell employees the truth, the transformation is already at risk. Clear answers are therefore required from the outset: What is the actual situation? Why is change necessary? What objective is the company pursuing? And what future perspective will this create for the company and its employees?

Not every transformation allows every employee to remain in the new organisation. If positions are to be eliminated or job requirements change fundamentally, this must also be communicated early and honestly. A clear and fair programme is required, with transparent criteria, personal discussions, binding timelines and appropriate support for those affected.

At the same time, the employees responsible for implementing the transformation must be involved and given real responsibility. The most talented and change-oriented employees form a team that understands the new direction and can communicate it credibly throughout the organisation.

Honesty does not automatically create agreement. It does, however, provide direction and build trust – the essential foundations of a successful transformation.

AI projects

Harness the power of artificial intelligence to create innovative solutions for your business.

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Using AI to increase productivity

Public discussion about artificial intelligence is currently dominated by advances in large language models and the question of whether and when a technological singularity might be reached. For companies, however, a different question is far more important: Which processes can AI improve today, and what measurable business value can it create?

Despite the intensity of the public debate, agentic AI systems are still used comparatively rarely in German companies. These systems can independently analyse information, classify transactions, prepare decisions and automatically execute defined process steps. Combined with vectorisation, they can also process large volumes of emails, documents and company data, understand their content and reliably assign them to the appropriate business processes.

DressenHeims Unternehmensberatung therefore focuses on the practical implementation of AI projects. We analyse processes, data, systems and interfaces, identify commercially viable use cases and develop solutions based on agentic AI systems, vectorisation or a combination of both approaches.

Our objective is not to create isolated technology projects, but to deliver measurable productivity gains within a realistic timeframe. In this way, artificial intelligence becomes an effective tool for reducing costs, improving quality and strengthening the company’s long-term competitiveness.

Our partners

Our partner for corporate finance services – IPONTIX Corporate Finance

IPONTIX Corporate Finance advises companies, many of them family-owned, on acquisitions and divestitures, succession solutions, strategic financing matters and company valuations. Its experienced team combines many years of corporate finance expertise with an extensive network of banks and investors.

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Our partner for AI hardware and software – BYTEC, supporting more than 2,000 resellers in Germany

BYTEC Bodry Technology GmbH is a German specialist IT distributor for modern IT infrastructure, data and storage solutions, networking, cloud technologies, IT security and artificial intelligence. BYTEC supports IT service providers with technical advice and project assistance.

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AI-supported email processing – from preparation to a production-ready solution

Preparation and project management Services provided by DressenHeims Unternehmensberatung
Outcome: ready for a PoC
1
Objectives and business case
Define measurable targets for productivity, financial performance, quality and business value
2
Processes and decisions
Document workflows, exceptions and responsibilities; simplify and standardise processes
3
ERP and IT landscape
Assess databases, interfaces and existing EDI, PDF and automation tools
4
Data foundation
Provide representative, categorised emails and attachments and ensure their quality
5
Team, security and governance
Define roles, access rights, data protection, checkpoints and internal capabilities
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PoC and success criteria
Agree on the test design, thresholds, costs, processing time and manual effort
Secure end-to-end processing AI, conventional automation and ERP work together with risk-based controls
Goal: a production-ready process
HIGH CONFIDENCE · COMPLETE DATA
Existing tools Database / ERP validation Automatic execution
Validate EDI/PDF data, required fields, customers, items, prices and ongoing transactions; confirmed records are passed directly to the ERP system.
UNCERTAIN · AMBIGUOUS · HIGH RISK
LLM context review Human approval for residual risk Tools and ERP
The LLM reviews uncertain decisions. Only cases with residual risks or missing information are referred to staff.
Continuous improvement: Auditing, monitoring and staff feedback improve rules, training data, thresholds and models.
Measuring success and scaling Technical quality and business impact are assessed together
Quality and risk
Precision, recall and F1 per category; critical false positives and false negatives
Automation and productivity
End-to-end automation, manual review rate, and time spent reviewing and correcting
Cost-effectiveness and scaling
Cost per email, processing time, throughput and stability under peak loads
Security and governance
Access rights, data leakage, audit completeness, drift and reproducibility
Production-ready solution: maximise automation while controlling risk and keeping total costs economically viable

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Email Automation: Your Potential Check

DressenHeims Unternehmensberatung · Workshop assessment and scenario calculation

Record volumes, categories, identifiers and document structures. Complete the processing assumptions together during the workshop. This is not an AI test and does not guarantee an automation rate.

The pre-filled entries are non-binding suggested values for orientation. You can change every field or remove all unchanged suggestions with “Clear suggested values”. Your own changes are preserved.

Email volume and period

Maximum 999,999 emails per period · 30 categories · 50 identifier types · 100 groups. Distinct master-data values and senders: up to 99,999. Layout/format variants and identifier lengths: up to 100. Test emails: up to 99,999. Percentages: 0–100%.

Use the same period for all volumes. Count each email exactly once, even if it contains several attachments or requests. You can create a separate category for mixed requests. Exclude direct EDI/API transactions that do not arrive by email.

Open the categories, identifiers and results when you are ready to explore. Collapsing the tool preserves your inputs.

Tool version 1.20 · Inputs stay in your browser memory: no transmission, cookies or automatic saving. Reloading clears your inputs unless you save them as a file first. Enter only volumes and anonymous format patterns, not real customer data or email content.

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