Enable Blog — Mergers & Aquisitions

We have witnessed a huge volume of merger and aquisition activity over the years, there were 1,560 recorded deals in 2018 valied at 182.6 bbillion compared to a whopping 6500 mergers and acquisitions were completed in the UK in 2015 with a total value of £433bn. 

2015 saw the highest level of merger and acquisition activity in the UK since 2007 according to research by Experian.  In fact, over 6500 mergers and acquisitions were completed in the UK in 2015 with a total value of £433bn.  This was the highest value of deals since 2000.

In order to prepare for major negotiations with suppliers, businesses often have to extract historical data from multiple systems: buying groups need information from their members' systems, newly merged businesses need information from different parts of the group. 

How do you achieve a single ERP system across all businesses in a newly merged organisation?  Is a single ERP even necessary?

Merger and Acquisition (M&A) activity often starts well before the actual merger with a period of due diligence where the value of the acquisition is assessed.