Question

the target acquisition company's financial and operational strengths and weaknesses that addresses the acquiring company's internal management team.

Answer 1

Strengths and weaknesses of company's internal management team are evaluated from three different levels: skills; competences; metrics.

Strengths and weaknesses in internal management

          KEY                                                STRENGHTS       WEAKNESSES 1        Skills                                     Initiatives for productivity area                    Absence of knowledge database 2     Competences                            Internal training                                        Target setting not well established 3 Metrics Metrics are present in supply Periodical reviews are missing

                                                         chain strategy

Overall activities are based on processes, on the other hand, the target setting procedure is not well established in order to ambition enough the members of the supply chain. Concerning metrics, it is very difficult to see how they are related to overall targets achievement because target setting procedure is not ambitious enough.