Delivering Merger Synergies: Procurement Paves the Way
Office product retailers, Office Depot and OfficeMax merged in November 2013 with the goal of delivering significant operating synergies and thereby radically improving financial performance. But with different cultures, senior stakeholders and high expectations, the transformation path was riddled with significant roadblocks. Join us for this session to hear how Procurement took the reins and led the way in the realization of synergies from the inception of integration planning all the way through the rationalization of the vendor base.
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Office product retailers, Office Depot and OfficeMax merged in November 2013 with the goal of delivering significant operating synergies and thereby radically improving financial performance. But with different cultures, senior stakeholders and high expectations, the transformation path was riddled with significant roadblocks. Join us for this session to hear how Procurement took the reins and led the way in the realization of synergies from the inception of integration planning all the way through the rationalization of the vendor base.
Topics in this session included: