How could there not be room for innovation there? Anyone who has used SAP can see that. A few years ago, one of my clients in an oil plant was trying to find p

How could there not be room for innovation there? Anyone who has used SAP can see that. A few years ago, one of my clients in an oil plant was trying to find parts (a certain type and size of carbon-steel pipe). They were on SAP, and all inventory was logged by the maintenance people in the various plants in this complex. The guy had to try inputting every combination of "3' diameter steel pipe" into their 90s-esque interface because they hadn't standardized the parts names. 3 foot, three foot, three ft, di, diameter, etc. Is that SAP's fault? Well, I suppose it could have been avoided with training- training every single maintenance guy in a huge complex to standardize the name of every single part. What bothers me isn't that they didn't solve that specific problem- I'm sure it happens everywhere. But 'implementing SAP' is a multibillion dollar industry because it's so configurable. There has to be a better way. (I've heard mixed things regarding OpenERP in this forum)