Re: Cardbox in the sky
Agree on the failure point, but I would say most ERP projects fail do to rigidity. No two businesses have the same processes and the small differences become major hindrances. Also, when you implement SAP, you had better be sure that those are the business processes you want... basically forever, but at least for many years. That is not how business works. Stuff is constantly changing and the systems need to change with it.... It is never going to be perfect, but a nice first step would be to go to best of breed. It is unlikely that some company in rural Germany has the golden processes for every process from sales to manufacturing in every industry for every country in the world. That is why everything ultimately gets dumped out of your $x million ERP into your $150 copy of Excel for a work around.
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