H&Z Management Consulting inks partnership with supply chain platform Prewave

H&Z Management Consulting has deepened its supply chain and procurement capabilities through a partnership with Prewave, an Austrian company that provides software for supply chain monitoring.

The platform of Prewave helps companies to rapidly garner data about their supply chains, across the full chain from sourcing and materials through to final destination delivery. According to Prewave, its platform collects 4.5 million data points every day, providing companies the data-driven foundation to improve their operations in areas such as risk, resilience, sustainability and procurement.

Prewave’s best-known functionality is around risk management. Using AI and predictive analytics, its platform can provide real-time insights on supplier risk, enabling a more proactive approach to preserving business continuity and boosting resilience. Prewave’s sustainability tooling meanwhile helps companies measure and report carbon management performance across the supply chain, including reporting to meet regulations.

Working with Prewave’s technology, H&Z Management Consulting will be able to enrich its offerings for Chief Supply Chain Officers and Chief Procurement Officers. 

“Supply chain transparency is no longer a nice-to-have. It’s a regulatory and strategic imperative,” said Sven Steinert, Partner at H&Z Management Consulting. “With Prewave, we bring our clients a solution that goes beyond risk identification to enable real, measurable impact. This partnership enables us to deliver future-proof answers to today’s most pressing supply chain challenges.”

According to Steinert, the partnership will focus on three key tangibles for its clients. The first is boosting the resilience of supply chains: “Our joint solution delivers end-to-end supply chain visibility, using an intelligent risk engine to surface, explain, and predict disruptions before they happen.”

The second is compliance, which is increasingly top of mind for leaders as they have to meet regulations including EUDR (against deforestation), CSRD (ESG and carbon emissions), CSDDD (due diligence for ESG), and industry-specific regulations such as the EUBR (battery regulation for the automotive sector).

“To meet evolving and more stringent regulations, companies need scalable, audit-ready solutions. We combine Prewave’s real-time risk intelligence, covering over 2 million global suppliers across 200+ risk categories in 400+ languages and dialects, with H&Z Management Consulting’s implementation expertise for seamless, future-proof compliance,” noted Steinert.

And third, cost control though procurement excellence. “Procurement must do more with less, without taking on more risk. Together, H&Z Management Consulting and Prewave support cost-reduction programs with built-in risk screening, empowering teams to optimise spend while protecting performance and supplier resilience.”

Commenting on the partnership, Tom Hiller, Head of Partner Management at Prewave, said: “Our clients don’t need more data, they need actionable intelligence. Prewave doesn’t just surface risk, it explains it, predicts it, and enables action. Together with H&Z Management Consulting, we’re turning supply chain complexity into strategic clarity, pairing AI superintelligence with decades of procurement expertise to deliver real results.”

Partner ecosystem

The news sees H&Z Management Consulting joins a select group of Prewave consulting partners (around a dozen). Others include Capgemini Invent, KPMG, BearingPoint, PwC, and Valantic.