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Dantzig t1_j64q030 wrote

Reply to comment by Wolpfack in IBM and SAP become latest tech companies to lay off thousands of workers by diacewrb

And its implementation at Aldi Lidl was halted after spending €500 million

https://www.henricodolfing.com/2020/05/case-study-lidl-sap-debacle.html?m=1

Edit: wrong German store

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LokiWinterwind t1_j65msnu wrote

It was Lidl and the article has a very nice synopsis. What Went Wrong

The problems arose when Lidl discovered that the SAP system based it's inventory on retail prices, where Lidl was used to do that based on purchase prices. Lidl refused to change both her mindset and processes and decided to customise the software. That was the beginning of the end.

That's something so basic and fundamental that it must have poped up in the first workshops and they decided to adapt a standard software in a fundamental way... That never works out well

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Dantzig t1_j67dqjy wrote

True I read a different article a while back and remember wrongly.

I was surprised just how little the SAP is a “program” and it seems more like a framework for SAP-consultants to fill out the blank canvas.

There even is a time registration module which I can say from experience is a bad port of an Excel sheet

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