In a perfect world, in the interest of affiliate consistency and
interoperability, multinationals want their global operations to
seamlessly perform across all borders and networks, regardless of
jurisdictional differences.
However, in reality, divergent legacy systems, incompatible
proprietary systems and histories of global business acquisitions
may all result in compatibility, integration and cost-efficiency
challenges.
Those challenges can also arise because a foreign affiliate has,
by design or opportunity, successfully drifted into profitable
business lines and operations that the enterprise would like to
pursue and replicate globally.
Regardless of the reasons, at some point multinational
businesses will likely need some form of realignment, consolidation
and regrouping to better manage the global enterprise.
