The research asset comes first
Gunnar Schlüter is an independent Finance & Controlling specialist focused on the logic between operational drivers, planning models and implementation requirements.
His background spans industrial controlling, Product Costing, budgeting and forecasting, investment appraisal, requirements work and enterprise-software consulting. This guide investigates the practical handoff between business economics and planning systems.
Gunnar Schlüter
Dipl.-Wirtschaftsing. (FH) · Independent consultant
Stade, Germany
Relevant professional background
Industrial and plant controlling
Business-area and production-plant Finance roles with budgeting, forecasts, management reporting, product costing, investment appraisals and SAP CO implementation work.
Enterprise Product Costing consulting
Six years as Senior Consultant: process consulting, requirements and specifications, PreSales, software implementation and customer / partner training.
Specialist decision-support work
Product-costing and industrial Finance assignments, cost and pricing logic, requirements, documentation and focused workstreams for consultants and interim executives.
These statements were checked against the supplied July 2026 CV. The experience is historical and cross-disciplinary; it does not imply current product certification or implementation experience in Corporate Planner, Lucanet or arbitrary FP&A platforms.
A specialist workstream inside a broader mandate
Potential contributions include planning logic, driver mapping, Finance requirements, industrial volume / mix / cost questions, model QA, UAT and reconciliation.
Product-specific configuration and solution architecture require the appropriate specialists. The cooperation scope should define who owns each business and technical responsibility.
The boundaries between the adjacent assets
| Asset | Role and boundary |
|---|---|
| FP&A Software Guide / fpa-software.com (planned) | FP&A software and Integrated Planning research, terminology, architecture questions, vendor evidence and validation of bounded offers. |
| epc-solutions.info | Product Costing / Product Cost Management research. Detailed EPC vendor profiles stay there; the natural bridge is upstream product economics. |
| PLANORM | Potential future commercial specialist brand for Product Costing, industrial Controlling, planning logic and decision-ready Finance. Driver Mapping, the Product Cost bridge and Model QA may later sit there; a proven three-statement prototype could follow. |
| PMO24 | AI implementation and workflow delivery for Finance & Controlling. Owns AI-agent implementation, workflow automation, cross-system AI integration and technical Finance AI delivery. |
An informed conversation is a useful next step
Vendors can help correct product evidence and investigate planning architecture questions. Consultancies and interim finance leaders can discuss a defined specialist workstream.