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.

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 Consumer Goods Industry
Chapter 20. Corporate Controlling 2020 - Trends and Challenges
Chapter 21. Revision of Financial Performance Management Systems in the Swarovski Group
Chapter 22. Marketing and Controlling as Business Partners in the FMCG Industry
Chapter 23. Holistic Management Accounting of Brand Performance in the Consumer Goods Industry
Chapter 24. Basket Analysis in Practice: Mathematical Models and Applications in Offline Retail
Chapter 25. Sales Performance Management
Chapter 26. Digitized Performance Management along the Supply Chain
Chapter 27. Opportunities for Supply Chain Processes by SAP S/4HANA.