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Nevertheless, there have been different cases of rejection for integration for neumes reasons. For instance, it’s very difficult to integrate chains as sharing sensitive information can make retailer vulnerable to their competition. Also, companies may not agree on the cost of change, investment in IT and human resources too. Furthermore, dependent integrated companies can become over dependent on one source for production, causing possible complacency & possibility of fraudulent activity
There are many ups and downs in integration. For example, a breakdown in communication language barriers, cultural differences can bring integration into a failure as communication is the key to the whole process. Also, having different goal can break a team as they all need to think and trust each other for the process to move on. Additionally, a lack of flexibility for independent, fast moving businesses can make integration a failure.