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Going through the comments here I notice the recurrent theme that it's your company that has to adapt to SAP and not the other way around. To me this raises tw
by leto_ii 7y ago
Going through the comments here I notice the recurrent theme that it's your company that has to adapt to SAP and not the other way around.
To me this raises two key questions:
1. Isn't this harmful/limiting for your enterprise in the long run?
2. How can you at some point migrate away from SAP once you adapted to it?
Given these issues and the huge costs, why would it make sense to adopt it in the first place? At least in the year 2020 (maybe the situation was different decades ago).
- swarnie_ 7y agoI can answer number 2. The closer you stick to "out the box" ERP the more chance you actually have of moving off of it in the future. Any ERP consulting house worth their fee will know how to move customers from one standard ERP system to their own/another. The difficulties come when you heavily modify your ERP solution to fit your business rather then follow the advice given. This is where the tender process and requirements will bog down, developers need to be hired or entire business processes need to be rediscovered and rewitten. Since an ERP move might only happen once every 10/15/20 years a lot of business will use the project as an opportunity to reshape business processes, removing a lot of legacy stuff which no longer makes sense.
- leto_ii 7y ago> The closer you stick to "out the box" ERP the more chance you actually have of moving off of it in the future. Interesting. But it still limits you to moving from ERP to another I guess.