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.

Provides a comprehensive introduction to, and up-to-date practical examples of, performance management in retail and consumer goods

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.