"Through the support of CAD Desktop functionalities,
the mass creation of documents
and materials, for example during the import
of a assembly, can be easily carried out.
Bill of Materials can be directly generated
from the structure view of the assembly. This
assures that the design material lists are
readily available to all successive procedures,
e.g. production, production planning,
etc."
Amongst those who have to deal with the downside when SAP is implemented at their site, one of the printable versions of what SAP stands for is "Shrink All Productivity".
Any of our vendors that have adopted SAP have spent 2 years minimum to merely recover to the level of operational efficiency at which SAP was introduced for basic tasks such as order entry and production tracking.
Enjoy the chaos if it ever arrives at your company.