With about 700,000 companies and a turnover in excess of 1 billion Euros, retailing is one of the largest sectors in Germany. Despite its strong concentration, this economic sector is still considerably dominated by medium-sized enterprises. In recent years, however, retailing has been experiencing only low growth rates. Strong competition puts high pressure both on the retail sector as well as on the wholesale trade. Traditional strengths such as the capability for innovation, branding and in-depth customer understanding build the best basis to take optimum measures for leveraging this development. Tomorrow’s challenges mainly lie in the tasks of optimizing processes from merchandise purchase to the efficient sale of goods and implementing an innovative market strategy and market design in order to be able to ensure and increase the sustainable success of a company – and all this is best achieved with a strong and experienced partner at your side.

Our services and consulting areas for retailing 

• Future Foresight
  We aim at detecting future opportunities and recognizing future threats. One of our tools is the scenario technique, designed to think ahead our customers’ future.
   
• Strategy Development
  In order to realize opportunities and avoid risks we develop business, product and technology strategies, among other things. The strategy forms the basis for focusing and bundling all the forces on hand, thus avoiding costly changes in a business’s direction.
   
• Process Management
  Processes describe the “real life” of a company and span multiple areas of activity. We design lean and efficient processes,. focusing on the evaluation and implementation of potential cost savings as well as on ensuring their acceptance by the employees. Our approach covers all the stages from designing a concept to living the process.
   
• IT-Management
  A continuous orientation of IT towards the corporate goals and targets is mandatory to ensure a company's economic success and the implementation of potential cost savings. We support you in all the stages from developing future-oriented IT strategies and optimizing your IT organization (COBIT®, ITIL®, IT security, etc.) to launching IT systems. Throughout the entire process, we always act in a product-independent manner.
   
• Innovation Management
  In order to achieve an increased innovative strength, we support our customers in all aspects from developing a strategy and their corporate culture, and designing the process and organization to implementing IT systems. On behalf of our customers we develop tailored innovation management, empowering them to maintain a sustainable, competitive and successful market position by providing product, service and business model innovations.
   
• Order Processing Optimzation
  Efficiency in the operational business can considerably be increased by optimized order processing. Waste such as excess use of resources, long throughput times or insufficient quality are detected and eliminated quickly by us. We design lean processes and structures going even beyond corporate borders. We attach great importance to the fact that employees accept responsibility and that potentials are realized.
   
• Product Management
  In cooperation with our customers we ensure high productivity by delivering anticipatory product engineering. Ranging from transport networks to intra-logistics, our sophisticated solutions serve to improve our customers’ efficiency. We optimize the process sequence by providing methods such as lean management and the Digital Factory.
   
• Project Management
  We support our customers in achieving their objectives by means of a result-oriented program and project management, and an effective change management ranging from project definition and operative support to project completion and controlling. Key performance factors, such as KPI, BSC, etc., form the basis for a consistent orientation towards Return on Investment. 
   
• Corporate Development & Finance
  We design and create the business modeling, budgetary planning and capital budgeting for our customers, carry out ratings of organizations, RoI analyses and performance optimization programs, and provide holistic support in all aspects of the acquisition or sale of a company or the management of succession. In addition we restore the competitiveness of the companies affected by providing a fast-acting reconstruction management.