Digitalization of the Corporate M&A Process
About

TDK Electronics (previously EPCOS) develops, manufactures and markets electronic components and systems under the product brands of TDK, EPCOS, Tronics and relyon plasma focusing on fast-growing leading-edge technology markets, which include automotive electronics, industrial electronics and consumer electronics as well as information and communications technology.

TDK Europe, a TDK Group company, is the European sales company of the TDK Group for the European business. Headquartered in Munich, TDK Europe operates an extensive sales network with 17 sales offices in Europe.

~13 billion € revenue
~100.000 employees
Objectives & Scope

Replace the intransparent decentral M&A planning, reporting and documentation activities by a digital single-source-of-tuth based on a best-practice workflow for an aligned understanding of current status and pending activities for all m&A activities of the group.

Benefits delivered
  • Developed a best-practice End-to-End M&A process leveraging all internal /external inputs together with the customer project team
  • Elaborated a M&A role-based-access control model fitting the TDK requirements and reflecting the importance of absolutue confidentiality
  • Included activity specific personal notifications in the workflow to assure awareness of status and open topice
  • Significantly improved quality, efficiency and the avoidance of redundant activities along the overall M&A process