127-Business Restructuring – Opportunity to Simplify, Transform and Accelerate B2B
High tech is experiencing many growth opportunities with the introduction of new disruptive technologies like wearable devices and the internet of things. To enter new markets, businesses may need to form strategic alliances with companies in other industries or undertake merger/acquisition activities. Changing strategies may lead to businesses selling off a business unit in order to focus on a specific business growth sector.
All of these activities drive business and supply chain transformation opportunities and initiatives, presenting a tremendous opportunity for companies to re-evaluate their B2B requirements and modernise their infrastructures to drive greater operational efficiencies across their restructured business.
This session will discuss business and supply chain transformation initiatives in the high tech industry and why these activities provide an ideal opportunity for companies to develop a B2B infrastructure to match the exact needs of newly combined or divested business operations. It will include a discussion on the benefits of adopting an on-premise, cloud or hybrid B2B environment and how each can help to streamline supply chain operations.
With contributions from: OpenText, Infineon, HP and FerD
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| Keynote: “Business Restructuring – Opportunity to Simplify, Transform and Accelerate B2B” by Mark Morley of OpenText
High tech is being impacted by a number of business pressures and is facing the need to embrace consumer driven markets, manage digital disruption from new technologies and monitor constant changes in macro-economic conditions around the world. These combined pressures are driving companies to divest business units or undertake merger and acquisition activities to strengthen their market position. This business restructuring provides the perfect opportunity to rethink supply chain and B2B infrastructure strategies. This session will discuss key restructuring related trends in high tech today and how this helps to drive new B2B initiatives. It will compare the different options available to manage B2B networks following restructuring, illustrated by several recent case study examples. |
| The challenges in Merger-Acquisition-Diversiture-Outsourcing (MADO) activities by Steven Spence of Hewlett Packard
A first-hand look at some key challenges a B2B Integration team encounters during MADO activities. Hewlett Packard is currently going through a separation process into two companies: Hewlett Packard Enterprise and HP Inc. Applications, Hardware, Business Processes, Networks, Employees, and External Partners all are impacted by changes in such a scenario. What are some key learnings? How do they apply to other companies and integrations? |
| B2B Key Enabler of Business Model by Ingo Schreiber of Infineon
Every organization goes through strategic organizational transformation. Merger and acquisition has been the key driver in business model changes. Through the recent experience with post-merger integration of International Rectifier at Infineon, it is realized that B2B is one of the key enablers for such transformation as well as capturing the strategic values. |
| eInvoicing with ZUGFeRD Hybrid Invoice – easy to start now by Andreas Pelekies of GS1/ZugFerd
The new eInvoicing format ZUGFeRD was already presented at CeBIT 2013 by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs, the German Ministry of the Interior and BITKOM. It offers cross-industryelectronic invoice data exchangeand allows the use without prior agreement and irrespective of thecompany size. Developed in the German national forum on electronic invoicing (FeRD) is based oninternational standards and is therefore not a purely national solution. The integrationof structured XML data into a PDF according to ISO-standard PDF/A-3 combines both visual and computer readable presentation of invoice information. |
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