The effort vastly improved the company’s planning and execution functions, created and implemented a new stock policy that accounted for specific SKUs and key variables, streamlined the order preparation process and reduced distribution transport times.

As anyone who has been following the current financial news and macro economic developments knows, the recovery of the (International) M&A market has continued unabated in 2014 and led to the highest number of transactions in the first half of this year since the beginning of the financial crisis.

For many IT entrepreneurs the reason for a merger or acquisition is often an exit after years of doing business in the same company, but also because a possible joining with a third party can increase the enterprise value and future prospects of the company.

Making headlines this week was the acquisition of Amsterdam based software company Innovation Factory by auditing firm KPMG. Innovation Factory is a service provider in IT Innovation and Idea Management software.