Make the most of mergers: how material handling and logistics operations are managed can...

Most mergers and acquisitions are failures. According to a study by KPMG looking into the success of these deals, 83 percent were unsuccessful in producing any business benefit in terms of shareholder value.

What's missing in many cases is any understanding of the value of the supply chain.

"We've come in after mergers and acquisitions and we said 'Maybe your company should have tried to understand whether there really were economies of scale before they did the deal,'" says Jerry Shapiro, president of Slim Technologies, a company that uses planning softwar