Performance Management in Retail and the Consumer Goods Industry

Part 1. Controlling vs. Management Accounting - How German and Anglo-American understanding differs.- Chapter 1. Understanding the Benefits of German Controlling and Management Accounting.- Chapter 2. Cost-accounting systems in Germany and the USA - A cross-national comparison and empirical evidence.- Part 2. Something new on the Agenda - Challenges and Trends Controllers have to cope with.- Chaper 3. Current challenges for consumer goods and retail companies and their implications for controlling.- Chapter 4. Digitization of Corporate Performance Management - Revolution or Evolution?.- Part 3. How to approach performance management - best practice concepts.- Chapter 5. Approaches for Steering Multi-Channel Retail Companies.- Chapter 6. Managing Retail and Wholesale Business by Performance Indicators.- Chapter 7. Enable data driven management information at REWE Group through a value adding integrated Management Data Warehouse.- Part 4. Digital Performance Management - new opportunities to boost efficiency.- Chapter 8. The Digital Strategy - The Guide to Systematic Digitization of the Company.- Chapter 9. SAP S/4HANA - Performance Management in real-time?.- Chapter 10. How to use Robotics within Finance Functions?.- Chapter 11. Big Bang based Decision Automation.- Chapter 12. Performance Management of the Digital Pure Play Zalando.- Part 5. Planning, Forecasting and Management Reporting - suggestions for doing it the smarter way.- Chapter 13. Planning in retail companies - lean, robust, flexible.- Chapter 14. Shorter Planning, better Management.- Chapter 15. Planning 2.0 at REWE Group - Identifying Potential for Efficiency and Optimizing Planning Processes.- Chapter 16. Enhanced Sales Management - Using Digital Forecasting.- Chapter 17. KPI System for PENNY Discount International.- Part 6. Functional Controlling - business specific value proposition.- Chapter 18. A 360°-Portfolio Strategy in the Consumer Goods Industry.- Chapter 19. Risk Management in Retail and the

Michael Buttkus is a partner at Horváth & Partners, where he heads the retail and consumer goods competence center. He has extensive practical experience in the areas of performance management, management accounting and finance, strategic business management, and process and organizational management.
Prof. Ralf Eberenz is a senior advisor at Horváth & Partners and teaches business administration at the NORDAKADEMIE Graduate School in Elmshorn, Germany. He gained comprehensive practical experience in the consumer goods industry in various leadership positions at Beiersdorf. His major areas of expertise are strategic business management, management accounting, risk management, and mergers & acquisitions.