Mergers & Acquisitions

Wesupply’s comprehensive electronic trading platform increases HighJump TrueCommerce EDI Solutions’ global reach to over 10,000 trading partners and 130,000 trading connections.

A deal between Coyote and UPS would be the third-largest logistics deal this year, as the industry goes through a wave of consolidation amid rising consumer demand.

Transportation Technology Services is a significant addition to the more than 9,700 rail shipments BNSF Logistics currently manages.

Acquirers accelerate position-taking in the fast-moving segment - $14.8bn so far this year to acquire almost 40 IoT-related companies, with semiconductor deals leading the way.

Combination Extends Expertise of Global Leader in Supply Chain Research, Education and Certification Programs.

Shares of Salesforce.com soared to a record high on a report that the cloud-computing company has hired financial advisers to field takeover inquiries.

Penske Logistics announced it has reached an agreement to acquire Transfreight North America, a provider of third-party logistics and supply chain solutions, from Mitsui & Co., Ltd.

Intersections is a quarterly analysis of global merger and acquisition activity in the transportation and logistics industry - it provides an overview of the most recent M&A results and our expectations for future deal activity.

PwC's analysis of deal activity in 2014 revealed a lackluster year as M&A volume and value remained near ten-year lows.

Office-supply chain Staples agreed to buy its sole remaining competitor, Office Depot, in a $6.3 billion-deal that would create one mega-office-supply chain.

The Board of Directors of E2open has unanimously approved the merger agreement and recommends that E2open shareholders tender their shares in the tender offer.

Merger to create a single provider of adaptable technology for omni-channel fulfillment and networked trading partner management technology solutions for supply chain operations and organizations of all sizes.

Award-winning Retail Allocation and Merchandise Planning Software Extends Logility’s Reach into Retail Operations and Omni-Channel Performance.

Zebra gains instant access to complimentary technologies. But first, it needs to integrate a former partner that is 2-1/2 times its size.

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) present an incomparable number of options for the design of the new organization’s supply chain; a staggering percentage of initiatives fail to meet executive and shareholder expectations. Supply chain design technology enables companies to model their supply chains, evaluate alternatives, optimize the structure and simulate multiple scenarios in order to predict the resulting operational performance of the merged organizations.

In 2014, we expect the transportation and logistics sector to experience 10.5 percent growth in announced volume and 15.5 percent growth in announced value compared with 2013.

The fourth quarter of 2013 was robust by recent historical standards, with the second highest quarterly deal volume and value totals of the last three years.

The 2,600 primarily customer attendees at this year’s JDA FOCUS were looking for lots of things. They wanted to learn about JDA eight, a cloud-based bundle of more than 30 supply chain software products built on a single platform. And they wanted to know how any one of those products – WMS, TMS, SCMP—might improve their businesses.

UPS announced it will purchase Hungary-based pharmaceutical logistics company, CEMELOG Zrt, as part of its ongoing global growth and investment strategy.

UPS has officially acquired the 49 percent interest of Vietnam-based VN Express in the joint delivery venture between the companies, whom initially first partnered in 1994, with VN Express serving at UPS’s authorized agent in Vietnam, prior to establishing a joint stock company in 2010.