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Separation without the anxiety

February 15, 2017
Toby Gooley
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When one company buys another, the news tends to focus on the acquisition part of the deal, especially if a hefty price tag is involved. But that's just one side of the transaction; for every buyer, of course, there's a seller. Although it may seem that the latter has it easy compared to the buyer, which has to absorb and integrate the new acquisition, divesting a business is a pretty complicated matter, too.

This is a timely and relevant topic for supply chain managers. With the number of mergers, acquisitions, and divestments swiftly increasing, more and more of us will be tasked with preparing our companies' supply chains to accommodate those momentous changes. That is why we decided to publish "Getting Ready for Acquisitions and Divestments," a special, three-part series of articles in CSCMP's Supply Chain Quarterly and on our website, supplychainquarterly.com.

In those articles, a team of consultants from the professional services firm Ernst & Young LLP looks at the supply chain implications of mergers and acquisitions from both the seller's and the buyer's side of the deal. In Part 1 ("Divesting an asset? How you can maximize its value and sale price," Q3/2016) they examined how supply chain executives can create value and prepare assets for sale in order to maximize the value for the seller. Part 2 ("Buying or selling an asset: How to prepare for the handoff," Q4/2016) considered the sign-to-close phase, including how to develop a transition plan. We're just now putting the finishing touches on Part 3 ("Supply chain integration and optimization: The keys to realizing a deal's value"), which discusses executing on those plans, including stabilizing the assets and integrating them.

The past two years have seen mergers and acquisitions worth nearly US $5 trillion, by some counts. Things aren't likely to slow down, either: About half of all companies surveyed in EY's 2016 "Global Corporate Divestment Study" said they plan to divest a business unit in the next two years.

Your company could very well be involved in one of those deals. And as the EY team points out, how well supply chain organizations manage their responsibilities can make the difference between a deal's success or failure. So if you haven't read the series, you may want to pull out your back issues or go online and check it out.

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Contributing Editor Toby Gooley is a freelance writer and editor specializing in supply chain, logistics, material handling, and international trade. She previously was Editor at CSCMP's Supply Chain Quarterly. and Senior Editor of SCQ's sister publication, DC VELOCITY. Prior to joining AGiLE Business Media in 2007, she spent 20 years at Logistics Management magazine as Managing Editor and Senior Editor covering international trade and transportation. Prior to that she was an export traffic manager for 10 years. She holds a B.A. in Asian Studies from Cornell University.

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