Profile

Connects business teams, multiple software vendors and management

Over 20 years of project experience in transaction systems, with a focus on retail checkout, payment and loyalty. Continuously since 2008: business analysis, solution design and concept work, system selection and international rollout. Connects business teams, multiple software vendors and management. Plus more than ten years in telecommunications, working on rating and billing.

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, inventory management, DWH (solution design across multiple software vendors).

Industries

Automotive, e-commerce, retail, 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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