This is the exact opposite of the advice I've heard about how to successfully deploy SAP - while it is endlessly customizable and you can staff a large, doomed

This is the exact opposite of the advice I've heard about how to successfully deploy SAP - while it is endlessly customizable and you can staff a large, doomed engineering project to customize it to fit your business, you are a lot better off adopting the workflow and processes SAP wants you to use than adapting SAP to what you've been doing internally.