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 boutique 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, data & analytics, sourcing & supply chain, finance & operations, people & organization and information technology.

Utilizing consultants like Columbus Consulting can provide immediate expertise and support to help you build a connected commerce model. In selecting a consulting partner, make sure they have practical retail experience and can assist you from assessment and strategy through implementation and training. Unified commerce consultants should be able to define, deliver and guide systems selections. They need to be able to create IT roadmaps, manage data inputs and configure a connected platform. They should also be able to integrate store systems and mobile devices. Finally, the right consulting partner will be able to work within your organization like members of your team to impact process and change management from the inside, and provide cross functional training and facilitation.

Let us know how we can help you.  To learn more, visit COLUMBUSCONSULTING.COM

About Waleed Abbas

Waleed is a Technology Executive and Management Consultant.  He has performed technology &  infrastructure management, capacity planning, resource management, vendor management and enterprise architectural audits for efficiencies in integration, data flow & continued process improvements for current and future state gap analysis and roadmap. Waleed has managed resource teams of cloud architects, infrastructure engineers, dev ops, QA, security & application developers. He has global experience managing a world class Tier 1 & 2 infrastructure operations & incident management teams covering systems, infrastructure, and applications support model in 19 countries with 11+ agency partners. Waleed has managed implementations of PIM, CMS/DAM, eCommerce platforms, vendor management, asset management (hardware, software license tracking), contract negotiations for SOWs and Change Orders, Support Agreements, SLA (Service Level Agreements) for enterprise-wide support, upgrades and migrations in various organizations.

About Katrina Mossman
Katrina is a Managing Partner at Columbus Consulting. She has been consulting for retail clients with Columbus and worked for retail companies for 25+ years. Her responsibilities have included: executive leadership, large-scale program transformation, business and IT strategic analysis, roadmap development, interim leadership, business solution selection, process improvements, system design, Unified Commerce, Digital Transformation, OMS, Ecommerce, CRM, CDP ERP, WMS, Data and Analytics, Infrastructure and Security, HCM (HR/PR), Finance. Katrina has managed, led and provided oversight in the assessment, selection and implementation of Ecommerce, OMS, PIM, DAM, Loyalty, CDP, CRM and other key components of the Unified Commerce Experience.