Profile

The link between business, software vendors and management

More than 20 years of IT projects on complex transaction systems, from retail checkout through payment and loyalty to telecommunications billing. Continuously since 2008: business analysis, solution design, system selection, international rollout. Focus on retail checkout. The link between business, software vendors and management.

Checkout and payment

Point-of-sale systems, payment terminals (EFT), couponing and loyalty. Tools: GK Software, Oracle Micros, SAP OPP/MM.

Current engagements

  • EFT payment terminal integration at REWE Digital (target scope around 40,000 tills across more than 7,000 stores)
  • SOA migration of an international point-of-sale system across 13 European countries in drugstore retail
  • business analysis and risk assessment of an international checkout platform at ALDI
  • previously: PAYBACK rollout across the Telekom-Shop store network

Methodology

Project management (agile and classical), product owner, requirements and test management, software selection and tendering, vendor management. Complemented by AI-supported consulting workflows with Microsoft Copilot.

Multi-vendor integration

Payment terminal, point of sale, merchandise management, DWH (solution design across multiple software vendors).

Industries

Automotive, e-commerce, retail, digitalisation, food service, mobility, telecommunications.

Working style

  • Analytical, structured approach, open to new methods and technologies
  • Concentrated solo work and close collaboration in the team, depending on the task

Contact

kontakt [at] raikneumann.de

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