5 reasons to use Celonis for Consulting

Working behind the scenes at many companies is a team of change makers: consultants. They guide the way to a whole world of value for organizations – from increasing revenue to boosting productivity – by optimizing business processes.

Whether it’s illuminating a major revenue leakage blindspot or an unnecessary manual process, the breakthroughs can be transformative. It’s not just about making processes run, but making them work. Because when processes work, everything works.

The challenge for consultants is having the most powerful tools to meet clients’ demands for measurable outcomes. Lengthy workshops and process mapping are often relied on to diagnose process issues. But these approaches don’t deliver the rapid, tangible return on investment that clients expect.

Celonis has changed the game.

We’ve designed Celonis for Consulting (C4C) specifically to help consultants achieve limitless value – fast. The Celonis platform puts the power of process intelligence at consultants’ fingertips. They can take advantage of data-driven process modeling, end-to-end process transparency, and intelligent improvement recommendations.

Whether you’re yet to get started with Celonis for Consulting, or looking to get the most out of it if you’ve already signed up, here are five of the most invaluable benefits on offer.

1. Enhance and digitize your consulting engagements

Instead of time-consuming, resource-intensive, manual process mapping sessions and workshops, C4C accelerates time to value. The Celonis Platform extracts and standardizes real-time data from whatever systems your clients use. Rather than a static snapshot of your clients’ processes at a single moment in time, Celonis gives you a clear, accurate, and up-to-date picture of end-to-end business operations and KPIs – the foundation of effective process optimization.

Celonis’ data-driven approach also brings objectivity, without having to wrangle subjective stakeholder opinions. And with the Celonis Platform doing the heavy lifting of process mining and modeling, you can reinvest time in high-value advisory work – whether that’s crafting strategic recommendations based on these objective insights, innovating solutions for transformation initiatives, or building long-term, trusted relationships with C-suites.

And when you’re ready to optimize a process, Celonis empowers you to transform your recommendations into results. The Celonis Platform offers integrations and a whole marketplace of apps targeted at different use cases, making optimizations as seamless and effortless as possible. Process automation triggers real-time actions, orchestrating solutions to end-to-end workflow challenges. These include anything from products at risk of stockout, to automating re-ordering of inventory by balancing demand and supply, or suggesting next best options from vendors with better on-time delivery. This means you can deliver meaningful customer value from the get-go.

2. Supercharge client AI initiatives

One of the most common challenges consultants hear today is that companies don’t know how to justify AI investment or where to start with the technology. Businesses struggle to prioritize and implement their transformation opportunities – but Celonis helps you close this AI implementation gap.

Firstly, Celonis Process Intelligence supports you in identifying high-impact AI use cases based on your clients’ business data. Celonis helps you design ideal AI-enabled workflows so you can model different initiatives and guide clients towards real ROI from AI.

But almost nine in ten (89%) of the business leaders we surveyed for our Process Optimization Report: AI Edition said it’s crucial that AI has the context of how their business runs to be effectively deployed. So the Celonis Platform steps in by feeding AI applications and solutions with the client’s business rules, KPIs, and benchmarks, ensuring they know what a successful outcome is for your client.

To further amplify the value your clients can achieve from AI implementation, the Celonis Platform orchestrates businesses’ AI assistants, copilots, and agents. This means your AI solutions are triggered at the right time, for the right task, so they work together seamlessly. You can also continuously track and monitor the performance of your AI deployment within the Platform.

Celonis empowers you to become a strategic enabler of AI – unlocking faster value, supporting your clients through change, and preparing for AI’s next value play.

3. Productize your consulting services

Celonis puts you at the forefront of the shift away from generalist advisory work toward specialized expertise.

We’ve opened up our platform to you and your clients, so it’s a place for you to build repeatable, scalable solutions that are customized to your clients’ particular needs or industry challenges. The Celonis Platform is growing all the time with specialized partner apps that combine consultants’ unique domain expertise with Celonis’ platform capabilities and best practices in app-building.

And it’s a gift that keeps on giving. Creating a library of accelerators, apps, and playbooks makes your delivery model more efficient over time – and acts as a key differentiator for your practice. You can then accelerate problem identification and deliver quick wins to build confidence. Focusing on framing long-term solution implementation helps you scale across clients and industries, increasing your profitability and deepening your impact.

4. Drive system transformation with confidence

As clients continue transitioning from legacy infrastructure to modern systems, Celonis helps you deliver these risky and expensive transformations with clarity and confidence.

The Celonis Platform illuminates how your clients’ systems are really working (and what’s not). You can then show clients what to keep, what to change, and how to do it right. Whether it’s a cloud migration or ERP transformation, you’ll become their go-to advisor throughout the journey.

Better still, with Celonis you can validate the potential impact of any transformation via a digital twin of the organization, which includes all processes affected by any changes you make. Grounded in real business data and generated by advanced AI, you – and your clients – can visualize, assess, and derisk each transformation strategy before implementation.

5. Accelerate value in supply chain and cost-reduction projects

With companies worldwide confronting severe economic pressures, optimizing supply chains and removing cost from business operations are some of the greatest areas that consultants can create value.

Celonis helps you scale fast by showing where inefficiencies – and value – lie. The Celonis Platform makes it easy to objectively pinpoint supply chain optimization opportunities in your clients’ processes, such as slow-moving inventory and unreliable suppliers, then take targeted action guided by real-time data.

Celonis’ proven use cases include improving productivity, streamlining procurement, optimizing inventory, and increasing working capital, so you can deliver results quickly and win larger follow-on engagements. The Platform offers a dedicated Supply Chain Solution Suite that bundles together production-ready apps, AI-enhanced capabilities, supply chain context, and connectors for critical supply chain systems, so you can quickly demonstrate value to your clients.

Discover the fastest way to create client value and differentiate your consulting firm

If you’ve been looking to open up new revenue streams and create limitless value, Celonis for Consulting is your solution. It’s designed to be a door-opener for broader transformation, moving you from successful diagnostic pilots to driving and supporting your customers throughout multi-year strategic programs and long-lasting relationships.

We don’t just give you the Celonis Platform and leave you to it. If you’re only just getting started, we equip you with the support to rapidly deliver real value to your clients. That includes award-winning courses covering all you need to know about getting the most out of Celonis Process Intelligence – without any coding or complex technical expertise. That’s joined by training on accelerating your engagements and optimizing client processes for maximum impact – from boosting working capital to enhancing productivity and improving customer satisfaction.

You can start small – even for free – and scale your impact as you go. So join our worldwide ecosystem of consulting partners who are already using Celonis for their client projects.