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cbs strengthens manufacturing expertise: Successful integration of Trebing+Himstedt

2. April 2025

Group-wide unit with 370 experts advises global market leaders in the manufacturing industry

Heidelberg, April 2nd, 2025 – Three years after the takeover of Trebing+Himstedt Prozeßautomation GmbH & Co. KG by the consulting firm cbs Corporate Business Solutions, a significant milestone has been reached: The competencies of both companies have been successfully combined and bundled into a strong, integrated organization for manufacturing and supply chain excellence.

At the heart of this development is the Sustainable Supply Chain & Manufacturing Practice (SSCM) – a Group-wide unit with around 370 experts who support customers along the end-to-end value chain from design-to-operate. The SSCM Practice combines strategic business consulting with in-depth implementation expertise in IT – for future-oriented, sustainable and efficient industrial value creation.

As part of the organizational development, a new management team is taking over responsibility for the Manufacturing division: Kai Squillante and Erol-Kurt Yurtluk will lead the division and further expand cbs’ position in the market as a leading partner for digital manufacturing solutions. The aim of the high-performance SSCM practice is to implement intelligent factories in a networked, synchronized supply chain for global market leaders in industry.

The previous Managing Directors of Trebing+Himstedt, Steffen Himstedt and Stefan Trebing, left the company on March 31, 2025, thus completing the successful transition to a new phase.

Over the past three years, we have consistently pursued and achieved a common goal: the development of a market-leading consulting and implementation team for manufacturing excellence,” explains Rainer Wittwen, CEO of cbs. “We would like to thank Stefan Trebing and Steffen Himstedt for their entrepreneurial work and their significant contribution to the success of this transformation.”

Trebing and Himstedt founded their consulting firm in Schwerin in 1992.

With the successful integration of Trebing+Himstedt, cbs is consolidating its leading position as a partner to international industry for end-to-end, intelligent and sustainable value creation.