SNP for SAP: Mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures done right!
The current global economy offers no room for failure. Historic value destruction and lost synergies rates are too high to carry on with the same approaches to managing merger, acquisition, and divestiture lifecycles. Value degradation tends to occur when:
- The reasons for the deal are not clear, transparent, or convincing.
- The parties do not use the opportunity to transform and improve.
- The office of the CIO does not participate early in the deal lifecycle.
- Post-merger integration happens too slowly.
Many of the delays around post-merger technology integration stem from historic complexities, costs, and business risks that persist in the minds of business leaders today. With respect to divestitures, these same perceptions cause Transition Services Agreements (TSAs) to be written assuming that three (3) years is required to carve out and stand up Spinco systems, infrastructures, and networks.
With information technology now inextricably tied to business processes and reporting, there are no synergies without active up-front and lifecycle planning and execution.
With 87% of global commerce touching an SAP system somewhere in the world, the chances are that you and your future acquisition / merger targets run SAP. SNP is the best partner to help you:
- Gain deep insights into your SAP ERP, BW, and other functional applications.
- Perform a meta-comparison of your SAP system(s) to the acquisition target’s SAP system(s) to identify degrees of difference without accessing transactional data.
- Identify opportunities for data clean up, archiving, and tiering.
- Construct project estimates for systems consolidation and data harmonization that are faster, cheaper, and less risky than traditional approaches.
- Incorporate SAP transformation and cost-optimizing activities into your M&A-related projects such as a selective data migration to S/4HANA or a right-sized move to any cloud.
- Achieve additional cost savings from legacy SAP systems decommissioning.
- Achieve the shortest technical downtime available to minimize or avoid business disruption.
- Keep your auditors happy by using software-automated data verification and testing during projects.
- Construct the SAP component of the IT TSA that is beneficial to both parties.
Success story
SNP helped us with the pending acquisition to follow the confidentiality rules set by anti-trust specialists and to prepare the merger of the IT systems in the best possible way.
Ursula M. Kostal
IBS Senior Project Manager M&A at Mondelēz International
If you have a divestiture planned or regularly divest businesses as part of your long-term strategy, SNP will help you:
- Perform a meta-analysis of your SAP system(s) to identify the organizational, master, and document data associated with the business to be sold or spun off.
- Construct a solution for carving out the identified data that meets your needs.
- Offer suggestions for constructing SAP-related TSA components that benefit both seller and buyer (if applicable).
SNP should be a part of your team’s ecosystem dedicated to maximizing synergies, optimizing costs, and creating shareholder value!
Here just a few examples of the +1,300 M&A, carve-out, and harmonization projects across 29 industries SNP has supported in just the past 5 years.
Learn more in our On-demand webinar "SAP divestitures done right":
Read our latest blog articles about M&A and carve-out projects
Are you a system integrator? Then why not partner with SNP?
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A partnership with SNP stands for success-driven collaboration. Learn how your business can scale better, deliver better and innovate better together with SNP. With SNP´s software platform, you are able to understand your customers better and offer accelerated time to value in transformation projects. As a partner, you can expand your data transformation portfolio and enable transformation journeys.
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In this brochure, you will find all the relevant information about why a partnership with SNP is the right thing for you.
Your contact at SNP:
Darren Shaw
A&D Competency Leader & VP of Marketing at SNP
Mail: Darren.Shaw@snpgroup.com