02/09/2026
Buying a company is like a joint family moving into one house where every floor keeps its own kitchen, its own gas connection and its own cook!
Everyone eats, but nobody knows what dinner costs!!
Indian acquirers spent far more per deal in Q2 2026, with average deal size jumping from $26 million to $116 million. The ambition is not the problem. The plumbing is. (https://www.business-standard.com/companies/news/india-deal-value-doubles-in-q2-2026-as-outbound-ma-surges-126070600485_1.html)
Post-close, the pattern repeats across every group we work with. Three ERPs, two homegrown tools, one spreadsheet holding the consolidation together. Month-end takes three weeks. The MIS the board sees is already old. Synergy targets promised to investors have no system that can even measure them.
SAP S/4HANA Cloud does not make the integration free. It makes it repeatable. One core, one set of masters, one close calendar, and the next acquisition plugs into a pattern you have already run.
A standardized core changes the sequence. You map the acquired entity into an existing structure rather than negotiating between five legacy systems that were never built to talk.
If your growth plan involves buying more companies, decide the target operating model before the next term sheet, not after.
Let us talk before the next close.
