EPM for the Retail Industry

Helping retailers connect merchandising, stores, e-commerce and finance, with driver-based planning, true channel profitability, and faster, smarter merchandise decisions.

EPM for the Retail Industry

Retail performance is driven by traffic, conversion, basket size, assortment, inventory and store economics across merchandising, store operations, e-commerce and finance.

Cloudmaven delivers integrated retail EPM solutions that connect channel performance to financial outcomes.

Advantages for the Retail Industry

Key Challenges

  • Thin margins under constant pressure from price competition
  • Complex omnichannel planning across stores, e-commerce, and marketplaces
  • Inventory imbalances such as stock-outs, overstock, and high markdown losses
  • Heavy reliance on Excel for merchandise, store, and workforce planning

Our Approach

  • Connecting merchandise, store, e-commerce and finance into one driver-based model
  • Translating retail logic (OTB, sell-through, markdowns) into EPM design
  • Multi-channel and multi-store profitability with full transparency
  • Embedding promotion, pricing and footfall scenarios into planning

Core KPIs

  • Like-for-Like Sales Growth
  • Gross Margin %
  • Sell-Through Rate
  • Inventory Turnover (DIO)
  • Markdown %

Svenja Frankenberger
Head of Accounting, Qualifyze

Revenue recognition used to take an employee five working days.
With NetSuite, it is now 100% automated.

Richard Gausch
CFO, TEVEO GmbH

Cloudmaven supports us on our growth path. Teveo was launched in 2019 by two founders and has since grown to over 100 dedicated team members, with sales increasing from zero to over 50 million euros. We are delighted to be advised by Cloudmaven AG with their ERP and financial expertise.

Martin Hoffmann
former CFO and Co-CEO, ON

This tool is so valuable to us that its benefits can hardly be expressed in figures. It saves an enormous amount of time and energy and, in financial terms, represents precisely the freedom we want to give our employees in their day-to-day work.

Jan Christopher Stahl
CEO, TEVEO GmbH

We chose Cloudmaven AG because their reliable end-to-end solutions enable us to develop our company securely, precisely and scalably.

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Fares Khattab Managing Director UK

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