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<quote>Some have spent millions or tens of millions trying to make SAP fit their business and failed.</quote> Any business that tries to make SAP fit their nee
by dublin 4y ago
<quote>Some have spent millions or tens of millions trying to make SAP fit their business and failed.</quote>
Any business that tries to make SAP fit their needs will fail to some degree (usually to a large degree, and expensively).
SAP will tell you in a heavy German accent that you bought the perfect business practices from them, and if you want to be successful, you VILL make your business fit SAP, not the other way around. In reality, they're right - All the really successful SAP installations I've ever seen had the company tossing all of their existing processes and replacing them wholesale with the ones built into SAP. Trying to make SAP fit foreign practices is a losing deal.
- marcus_holmes 4y agoYeah, I've heard the same. And this echoes what I think happens with frameworks. You cannot make the framework fit your process. You might be able to make your process fit the framework. But the further your ideal process diverges from the framework's process, the more painful it is and the more the benefits of getting started faster are lost. :s/framework/SAP/g