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"My engineer friend uses it for supply chain management, a beer store hq clerk helped implement it, construction accountant has used it, etc." Is SAP something
by piokoch 6y ago
"My engineer friend uses it for supply chain management, a beer store hq clerk helped implement it, construction accountant has used it, etc."
Is SAP something that can be somehow scaled down? if this is used for a beer store, it has to be really large store, if that's what is written in the cited article is true:
"A basic installation of SAP has 20,000 database tables, 3,000 of which are configuration tables. In those tables, there are ~8,000 configuration decisions you need before even getting started. And that’s why SAP Configuration Specialist is an actual job title!"
- NikolaNovak 6y agoAh,I guess context would help - "The Beer Store" is Ontario's [Corrected From "Canada"] monopoly province-wide beer retail chain. You are absolutely right, a single retail store would not use such an ERP :)
- bregma 6y agoEr, an Ontario-wide beer retail chain, owned by the province-wide beer wholesale monopoly, in turn owned by a cartel of foreign breweries. Let me guess, you live in Toronto?
- NikolaNovak 6y agoCorrected! Thx :)
- tripzilch 6y ago> an Ontario-wide beer retail chain, owned by the province-wide beer wholesale monopoly, in turn owned by a cartel of foreign breweries. good thing we have SAP to facilitate the development of large scale business, such as monopolies and cartels.
- perl4ever 6y agoI don't think the existence of SAP is particularly relevant to a monopoly that exists because of statute. Although I don't live in such a state, I know there are places in the US where all the liquor stores are government run.
- hello_moto 6y agoSAP has two scaled-down ERP products: https://www.acclimation.com/au/solutions/sap-bydesign-vs-business-one/ https://www.acclimation.com/au/solutions/sap-bydesign-vs-bus...