ABOUT COLUMBUS CONSULTING Columbus Consulting delivers solutions that drive true value and have been transforming the retail and CPG industries for over two decades. We are a retail consulting company of industry experts. Our approach is simple, if you do it, we do it. We are more than consultants; we are experienced practitioners who actually sat in our clients’ seats. We understand the challenges, know what questions to ask and deliver the right solutions. Columbus offers a unique, consumer-centric approach with an end-to-end perspective that bridges functional & organization silos from strategy to execution. OUR SPECIALTIES include: unified commerce, merchandising & category management, planning & inventory management, sourcing & supply chain, data & analytics, accounting, finance & operations, people & organization and information technology. Let us know how we can help you.
Celonis
Celonis makes processes work for people, companies and the planet. The Celonis Process Intelligence Platform uses industry-leading process mining and AI technology and augments it with business context to give customers a living digital twin of their business operation. It’s system-agnostic and without bias, and provides everyone with a common language for understanding and improving businesses. Celonis enables its customers to continuously realize significant value across the top, bottom, and green line. Celonis is headquartered in Munich, Germany, and New York City, USA, with more than 20 offices worldwide. | Celonis makes processes work — for people, companies, and the planet. Powered by process mining and AI, the Celonis Process Intelligence Platform integrates process data and business context to create a living digital twin of business operations. We enable thousands of companies worldwide to understand how their business actually runs and, together with their partners, build intelligent solutions that transform and continuously improve the way they operate — unlocking billions in value.
Buynomics GmbH
Buynomics is the leading Revenue Growth Management (RGM) software for holistic optimization across all revenue levers. Our platform empowers commercial teams in enterprise organizations to make faster and more profitable decisions. By integrating multiple data sources with cutting-edge AI, Buynomics serves as a single source of truth for all shopper-centric revenue decisions. Trusted by global companies like Danone, General Mills, Unilever, L’Oreal, Nestlé, and other leading brands, Buynomics helps boost gross profits by 2%-4%* and reduces decision-making time by up to 80%. *depending on data quality & completeness
BlueZoo, Inc
BlueZoo technology measures the presence and movement of people, using smartphones as a proxy. We passively collect Wi-Fi probes from smartphones to measure the number of visitors, visits, unique visitors, recurring visitors, and multiple other metrics. | BlueZoo delivers accurate, privacy-protecting, and cost-efficient measurement of the presence and movement of people, including impressions, occupancy, dwell time, unique visitors, and traffic flow. BlueZoo passively measures the presence of people by measuring mobile phones as a proxy. Sensors are delivered either as BlueZoo custom hardware or as firmware on supported platforms such as BrightSign and Bluefin. Our purpose-built dashboard simplifies analysis and anomaly detection. Users derive insights from fine-grain data that are recorded in a cloud-based data warehouse and from real time alerts. In the out-of-home advertising industry, BlueZoo measures campaigns’ impressions, reach, and frequency. Advertising audiences can be measured both indoors (e.g. in-store signage) and outdoors (e.g. street furniture signage). For retailers, BlueZoo measures foot traffic analytics and real-time occupancy to improve conversions, margins, and operations. | BlueZoo delivers accurate, privacy-protecting, and cost-efficient measurement of the presence and movement of people, including impressions, occupancy, dwell time, unique visitors, and traffic flow. BlueZoo passively measures the presence of people by measuring mobile phones as a proxy. Sensors are delivered either as BlueZoo custom hardware or as firmware on supported platforms. Our purpose-built dashboard simplifies analysis and anomaly detection. Users derive insights from fine-grain data that are recorded in a cloud-based data warehouse and from real time alerts. In the out-of-home advertising industry, BlueZoo measures campaigns’ impressions, reach, and frequency. Advertising audiences can be measured both indoors (e.g. in-store signage) and outdoors (e.g. street furniture signage). For retailers, BlueZoo measures foot traffic analytics and real-time occupancy to improve conversions, margins, and operations. For insurers, BlueZoo measures occupancy to predict and prevent the risks of overcrowding.
Agilence Inc.
Agilence is the leader in loss prevention analytics, helping prominent retail, restaurant, and grocery companies increase their profit margins by reducing preventable loss. At Agilence, we specialize in uniting digital and physical transactions to help cutting-edge loss prevention teams expand beyond traditional theft and fraud to tackle preventable loss in all its forms – in the store, online, and at the corporate office. Every day, Agilence analyzes over 24 million transactions for our customers, transforming data into insights, and insights into actions. Our platform combines data from 200+ sources, including point-of-sale (POS), eCommerce, HR, labor, inventory, product, third-party delivery platforms, alarms, case management, loyalty, access control, video surveillance, and more. Companies have saved millions of dollars by optimizing operations, identifying sources of margin erosion, and reducing shrink using Agilence. Many have also improved employee and customer safety, identified training opportunities, improved customer experiences, increased promotional success, and eliminated productivity gaps. | Agilence is the leader in loss prevention analytics, helping prominent retail, restaurant, and grocery companies increase their profit margins by reducing preventable loss.
ACI Worldwide
As an original innovator in global payments technology, ACI delivers transformative software solutions that power intelligent payments orchestration in real time so banks, billers, and merchants can drive growth while continuously modernizing their payment infrastructures simply and securely. We combine 50 years of trusted payments expertise with our global footprint and a local presence to offer enhanced payment experiences to stay ahead of constantly changing payment challenges and opportunities. | ACI Worldwide is a global leader in real-time payments software. Our proven, secure, and scalable solutions enable corporations around the world to process and manage payments and mitigate fraud and risk. We combine our global footprint with a local presence to drive the real-time digital transformation of payments and commerce. Our payments experts are taking the stage at Smarter Faster Payments 2026 in multiple speaking sessions.
7thonline
7thonline is enabling retailers to make integrated, AI-driven merchandising decisions, spanning across key channels: retail, wholesale and ecommerce. Powered by AI/ML, our end-to-end demand planning and inventory management solutions are empowering retail brands to connect supply chain planning with execution and make dynamic inventory decisions through granular, real-time insights—down to style, color, size. Stay ahead of consumers and effectively navigate today’s multi-channel planning, forecasting and optimization needs. Act on detailed demand signals with precision and meet shoppers with the right products, in the right place, at the right time. Backed by over 20 years of R&D and continuous collaboration with long-time clients, our team of data scientists and industry executives have created the most-accurate forecasting engines and vertical-specific algorithms to enhance inventory productivity, unify retail planning and streamline operational efficiency. The platform integrates with PLM, ERP and POS systems to ensure data consistency across the supply chain, connecting assortment planning, execution, and reporting workflows to enable real-time collaboration between departments. Industry leaders such as PVH, Birkenstock, Alexander Wang, Patagonia and Michael Kors have trusted the system since 1999.