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Sign up for your SAP Education account! Visit the Help CenterASAP Rocky AMERICAN APPAREL T Shirt A$AP Mob Tee NEW WITH TAGSMost Viewed Writer in with 240+ answersYou have heard it wrong, my friend.SAP is not bad, however some of the implementations are bad. The poor implementation can be the result of one or all of various things likeun-realistc deadlines - so implementation is done in haste just to tick the check box,less than required budget - resulting in poos quality consultants and toolswrong team size - smaller team may result in poor quality solution and larger than needed team may exhaust the budget before deadlinefaulty management - resulting in un-controlled processes, no stream-lining, mis-aligned solution componentsetc etcWhen implementation go bad, or users are not happy with the solution delivered - SAP gets a bad name and so will any other ERP system.Suppose, you want to buy shoes and your feet are size 8. You go to Nike store and buy a size 7 shoe. After coming home and wearing it for couple of times, you say Nike shoes are not good, they make your feet hurt.

Alternatively, you wanted to buy sports shoes. You go to shoe store and buy a pair of cricket spikes. You come back home, wear them around your house and then complain that shoe design is bad, it is tearing your carpet.Some other time, you wished to buy a mobile phone. You go to the market and buy an expensive mobile phone and voila you can’t operate the phone to full functionality because you do not know how to. Henry Vacuum Cleaner SparesYou end up complaining that phone is bad.etc etc.Homes For Sale In Port Mayaca FloridaSAP is the world leader in ERP solution market and has impressive figures under the belt. Homes For Sale Glenwood Ave Boardman OhioSAP is not bad, it is just few of the implementations which are bad.

Most Viewed Writer in with 270+ answersSAP is not ‘bad’ per se - it is a very complex, very powerful ERP suite that takes a lot of configuration - the upside being you can make the software do just about anything you want.For a small company, they may use a smaller ERP package - some features, say, entering a sales order - might be a bit cumbersome and don’t exactly get ALL the information we need on a sale…but it’s pretty good otherwise.SAP on the other hand, can be configured to handle this sales order process perfectly - it takes some time, it takes some consultant hours - but in the end, perfect.Now, if you’re a small company, you don’t need or can’t afford SAP - you live with it. But a big corporation with thousands of people globally entering hundreds of sales orders daily - even though SAP’s expensive, it’s saving you far more than having a workaround process done millions of times each week.Where it gets ‘bad’ is when you have an SAP implementation that needs 25 consultants and 18 months to roll out.

And suddenly, oh gosh, look at the budget - can’t we just use 15 consultants and we’ll do the rest ourselves?If you could, you too would be a $225 an hour SAP consultant - and from the 10 year old Subaru you’re currently driving, I’d say you’re knocking down something considerably south of $225 per.Solution - adequate cost justification studies at the beginning showing that spending a budget of $10m will actually save $30m - and suddenly 25 consultants doesn’t look so bad.But this is not particular to SAP - it happens in every ERP implementation - when you don’t realize the size of the payback, the implementation budget is always too expensive - and if the payback doesn’t make the implementation budget look small, you shouldn’t have bought it in the first place.It’s just when SAP crashes, it’s just so spectacular and so enormous, it tends to make news. And when it’s implemented ‘on the cheap’ it tends to make people’s work that much harder, which they blame on SAP.

Most Viewed Writer in with 60+ answersI'll try to make this point using an analogy, though an imperfect one.Say you are moving goods from point A to point B. Now you can:Move these goods manuallyYou can hire people to move these goods manuallyYou can get some golf carts to move these goodsYou can get a truckYou can build a track between points A and B, and put a train on itNow lets rate these options in terms of different parametersMoving goods manually means you don't have any setup costs (no need to buy anythingThat's ok if you are moving one sack of potatoes from your house to your shed. You have a lot of flexibility - do it when you want and how you want. You can also take a can of water when you are at it, and bring back something from the shed. On your way back, you can stop and water your garden if you want.What if you had 100 sacks? You should hire some people otherwise they'll sprout before you are done. Now you have setup work (find and hire these guys), and pay them. You have higher investment, and less flexibility.

They work on their time, plus they will only carry your potatoes, not water your garden while doing it.If you had a thousand sacks, and you were moving them from one warehouse to another, about 1 km apart? You could get a small golf cart or small tractor. You need to spend more to get this, plus set up a proper path to drive on (more investment, less flexibility).Now if you had to move 1000 sacks a day between a warehouse and a port, about 100 km apart? Now you use a truck. A truck is a much bigger investment, and you also need a nicely paved road (more investment, less flexibility - you cannot drive off road).Finally, if you had a coal mine, and needed to move a hundred tonnes of coal a day, from the mine to the port? Now you need a train track. Much, much more expensive to set up, but once set up, your per mile fuel cost is negligible. But it will only stay on the track, and even to stop mid-track is a big deal. So you have even less flexibility.Now, the question is, what do you want to do?

You don't build a train track, to transport 1000 sacks of potatoes. That would be too expensive. When you build your train tracks, you are happy with the results, but the users of your train (train driver) might compare his cabin to his car and say, "My car is much more comfortable, therefore the train is not user-friendly". Your truck cannot go where there is no road, unlike the laborers you hired, so you could say the truck is "not flexible". There is no user manual to learn to drive a train - you have to take training, or you can say, "this train has poor documentation".To complete the analogy:Move these goods manually - paper-based book-keepingYou can hire people to move these goods manually - using ExcelYou can get some golf carts to move these goods - using a simple database (MS Access?)You can get a truck - small slick-looking ERP. Implement in 1-2 daysYou can build a track between points A and B, and put a train on it - SAP ERPBonus: Suppose you had to move a 1000 tonnes of coal from several mines to 20 different countries using 20 different currencies and languages and paying in 20 different tax codes.