Bring financial and operating data across acquired businesses into a common view while each company continues using its core systems.
The transaction has a closing date. A dependable view of the combined business takes more work.
Each company brings its own systems, reporting habits and understanding of its numbers. Revenue may be recognized at different points. Product returns may follow different accounting treatments. Customer and supplier records may overlap without a shared identifier. Reports carrying the same title may cover different periods or include different activities.
Those differences matter when leadership begins asking questions across the portfolio.
Answering these questions often means collecting spreadsheets, tracing adjustments and asking local teams to explain their reports again. By the time the group view is ready, the underlying position may have changed.
Integration begins with understanding what can already be brought together, what needs an agreed definition and what remains uncertain.
NOVV connects relevant records across accounting, ERP, CRM, procurement and inventory systems, including the local files that still carry essential operating information.
We work with finance and operations to establish how those records relate to the group view. Local account structures, business entities, products and reporting periods are mapped to agreed definitions, with the source records available for investigation.
A consolidated figure is useful when its meaning is clear. Teams need to know what it includes, which period it represents, how it was prepared and where a local treatment affects the comparison. Missing information and unresolved mappings remain visible, so they can be reviewed by the people responsible.
The scope follows the decisions facing the group. An initial view might focus on cash and working capital. Another might connect procurement, inventory and supplier records to investigate purchasing overlap. Further areas can be added as definitions are agreed and the underlying data becomes dependable.
This gives leadership a usable view while wider system integration is still being planned. It also provides evidence for that planning: where common processes would help, which local capabilities are worth preserving and which dependencies need to be resolved before a migration.
In February 2026, DSV reported that it expects to complete the integration of DB Schenker by the end of 2026, 20 months after closing the acquisition and in less than half the time first planned (the end of 2028). DSV calls it the largest and most complex integration in its 50-year history.
This is an external industry example, not a NOVV project or a forecast of results for a NOVV engagement.
Once information becomes comparable, teams need a way to act on what it reveals.
NOVV builds reporting and operational interfaces around the priorities of the integration. Leadership can review performance alongside unresolved data issues, agreed actions, responsible teams and dependencies between workstreams.
Depending on the scope, these views can help teams examine overdue receivables, inventory exposure, shared suppliers, purchasing differences or customer concentration across the portfolio. An exception can be traced to its source, assigned for review and followed through to resolution.
The same discipline applies to progress. Reporting preparation time, reconciliation effort, data coverage and unresolved mappings show whether the shared information is becoming more dependable. Integration milestones and operating measures show whether the business itself is changing as intended.
The distinction matters. Bringing previously excluded costs into a report may reduce the reported margin without any deterioration in operations. Resolving a reporting inconsistency may improve comparability without creating a financial benefit. Each change needs to be understood on its own terms.
A dependable group view gives leadership a clearer basis for deciding what to address next, and gives local teams a shared reference for the work that follows.
We will use those questions to define an initial scope, assess the available sources and build a view that supports the next stage of integration.