SAP

SAP is an enormous German Software Services firm that sells enterprise resource planning (ERP)software and implimentation that promises to keep the CEO informed allows automation of many routine business functions and speeds information flow through large firms.

The implementation process is also one of the best ways to bring a firm to it's knees.

It is also staggeringly expensive, nearly always late, and generally fails to fulfill it's promise.

Before SAP counsel contacts me - allow me to say the views I express, while informed by opinions of others in the field, are all my humble opinion. No effort to defame, disparage, or slander SAP, it's representatives, implimenters, or even the lowly salesman is intended. And SAP is no better or worse than their competition.

I have been SAPped 3 times in three different locations. It is my fervent desire to retire before I get SAPped again.

I guess that isn't detail, sorry.

The SAP website is a font of information on WHAT they do, how they do is private. It is what they sell.

Given the problems, you understand that it is a great place to earn money for the rest of your life.

In SA it is used as an accounting/billing program to charge for an estimated value at 3 decimal places accuracy.

Ah, you are not having near enough fun.

If you buy the full package they truly will allow you to track inventory from the railyard outside clear through to the customer, quantifying your schedule and costs at every step.

It is the SAP cost at every step that concerns me.

Hendrik,

I thought it was the South African Police.

That SAP programme is seriously corrupted.

How about an "IT investment that will turn a large cash horde into a small one?"

milo