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Performance Management in Retail and the Consumer Goods Industry

Best Practices and Case Studies

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Editors:
  1. Michael Buttkus

    1. Horváth & Partner GmbH, Berlin, Germany

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  2. Ralf Eberenz

    1. Horváth & Partner GmbH, Hamburg, Germany

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  • Provides a comprehensive introduction to, and up-to-date practical examples of, performance management in retail and consumer goods
  • Explains specific accounting concepts for retail businesses and consumer goods companies
  • Offers a valuable contribution to the available literature on management concepts for practitioners

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Table of contents (27 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Controlling Versus Management Accounting: How German and Anglo-American Understanding Differs

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Understanding the Benefits of German Controlling and Management Accounting

      • Larry White
      Pages 3-9

    3. Cost Accounting Systems in Germany and the USA: A Cross-National Comparison and Empirical Evidence

      • Peter Kajüter, Moritz Schröder
      Pages 11-26

  3. Something New on the Agenda: Challenges and Trends Controllers Have to Cope with

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27
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    2. Current Challenges for Consumer Goods and Retail Companies and Their Implications for Controlling

      • Ralf Eberenz, Maximilian Schröer
      Pages 29-47

    3. Digitization of Corporate Performance Management: Revolution or Evolution?

      • Sascha Brosig, Carsten Bork, Walid Mehanna, Stefan Tobias
      Pages 49-65

  4. How to Approach Performance Management: Best Practice Concepts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67
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    2. Approaches for Steering Multichannel Retail Companies

      • Philipp Graf von Arnim
      Pages 69-84

    3. Managing Retail and Wholesale Business by Performance Indicators

      • Bernd Seufert
      Pages 85-99

    4. Enabling Data-Driven Management Information at the REWE Group Through a Value-Adding Integrated Management Data Warehouse

      • Tino Eichler, Christoph Kremers, Florian Werner
      Pages 101-120

  5. Digital Performance Management: New Opportunities to Boost Efficiency

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
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    2. The Digital Strategy: The Guide to Systematic Digitization of the Company

      • Daniel Kittelberger, Lea-Sophie Allramseder
      Pages 123-136

    3. SAP S/4HANA: Performance Management in Real Time?

      • Frank Poschadel
      Pages 137-151

    4. How to Use Robotics Within Finance Functions?

      • Sina Gieseking, Kai Grönke
      Pages 153-164

    5. Big Bang Based Decision Automation

      • Mareike Clasen, Michael Milnik
      Pages 165-182

    6. Performance Management of the Digital Pure Play Zalando

      • Jörg Engelbergs
      Pages 183-195

  6. Planning, Forecasting and Management Reporting: Suggestions for Doing It the Smarter Way

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 197-197
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    2. Corporate Planning in Retail Companies: Efficient, Robust, and Flexible

      • Michael Buttkus
      Pages 199-214

    3. Shorter Planning, Better Management

      • Dominique Reuse, Mario Schoeb, Ulrich Teuscher
      Pages 215-223
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About this book

This book offers essential insights into various management concepts for retail and consumer packaged goods companies. Addressing a range of topics in the field of performance management, it presents concepts for management control, management reporting, planning & forecasting, as well as digitization-related aspects. The contributing authors share valuable lessons learned from real-world consulting projects and present innovative approaches to successful and effective management control at retail and consumer packaged goods companies.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Horváth & Partner GmbH, Berlin, Germany

    Michael Buttkus

  • Horváth & Partner GmbH, Hamburg, Germany

    Ralf Eberenz

About the editors

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.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Performance Management in Retail and the Consumer Goods Industry

  • Book Subtitle: Best Practices and Case Studies

  • Editors: Michael Buttkus, Ralf Eberenz

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12730-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-12729-9Published: 04 July 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-12732-9Published: 15 August 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-12730-5Published: 21 June 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 442

  • Number of Illustrations: 161 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Accounting/Auditing, Financial Accounting, Trade, Business Consulting

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