IT support for integration of new markets (expansion) / procurement, rollout

The emerging new markets offered a unique opportunity for expansion. The reengineering project, while promising a modern solution for the traditional markets, offered no potential for immediate action. A new project was lauched for finding and introducing alternative IT solutions. Several products was tested and evaluated. The selected software was adapted and put into production within 2 years in several countries. The procurement and rollout was supported in part by us. Project based in Dusseldorf / Germany. Duration: 30 Months, team size: 8, total efforts: 220 Months

Decision support analysis of a projected new retail service

Consulting support for senior business management on a projected new business branch. Project based in Vienna / Austria. Duration: 3 Months, team size: 1, total efforts: 3 Months

Data warehouse building, data mining, management reports

One of the offspring of the large retail reengineering project. A data warehouse was built gradually on expanding domains of retail data: POS invoices along with supplier, article, customer databases; orders / supplier invoices, financial / management data, etc. Collected data was later analysed by using data mining methods and used in purchasing / marketing decisions. Project based in Vienna / Austria. Duration: 18 Months, team size: 4, total efforts: 48 Months

Reengineering of a large retail system / quality assurance, technology supervision

Cooperation in a large project spanned over 5 years targeting new software technologies and reengineering of a complex retail system on all levels (store, purchase, marketing, etc.). The quality assurance included, among others, selection of automated test tools, desing and execution of test scenarios on module, integration and system level. Technology supervision (style guides, code review, development cycle support, database tuning, etc.) was provided as well within the scope of the subproject. Project based in Zug / Switzerland. Duration: 18 Months, team size: 5, total efforts: 50 Months

Reengineering of a large retail system / coordination of specific national requirements

Cooperation in a large project spanned over 5 years targeting new software technologies and reengineering of a complex retail system on all levels (store, purchase, marketing, etc.). This subproject aimed at analysing the differences in the business environment of national entities due to legal, social, cultural or linguistic reasons. The integration of local requirements in the international project has been a major design and implementation task. Project based in Zug / Switzerland. Duration: 30 Months, team size: 3, total efforts: 16 Months

Reengineering of a large retail system / assessment of functions

Cooperation in a large project spanned over 5 years targeting new software technologies and reengineering of a complex retail system on all levels (store, purchase, marketing, etc.). This subproject belongs to the preparatory, strategy planning phase. Project based in Zug / Switzerland. Duration: 24 Months, team size: 3, total efforts: 12 Months

Reporting system for the analysis of stock financing

Measuring of turnover ratio, effective terms of payment (target) and COGS, analysis of financing / factoring of stock in a store. Project based in Vienna / Austria. Duration: 4 Months, team size: 1, total efforts: 4 Months

Article subsystem of a complex retail system

Online control and reporting system for stock analysis. Placement optimization within a store. Project based in Vienna / Austria. Duration: 3 Months, team size: 1, total efforts: 3 Months