LIDL cancels SAP introduction after spending 500M Euro

Re:LIDL cancels SAP introduction after spending 500M Euro by _Codemonkeyism on Monday July 16, 2018 @10:02AM (#17541288)

Many (article says 100) consultants with xK$ per day runs up 500M fast.

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Re:LIDL cancels SAP introduction after spending 500M Euro by antpls on Monday July 16, 2018 @10:23AM (#17541441)

My model is basic, but at $1200/day per consultant, with 100 consultants, that's still about 4160 days, or about 11 years. Not what I would consider fast.

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Re:LIDL cancels SAP introduction after spending 500M Euro by kirbypineapple on Monday July 16, 2018 @10:34AM (#17541549)

$150 per hour is on the low end for good SAP consultants. We were paying $300 per hour for some InfoSys SAP HANA people, and even independents were around $200+.

If they're doing anything beyond vanilla consulting work with SAP then I doubt they're using cheaper offshore talent. Or maybe they are and that's why this project has failed so spectacularly. (Note: I'm not saying all offshore talent is hot garbage, I'm saying the cheap talent is hot garbage, especially SAP consultants).

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Re:LIDL cancels SAP introduction after spending 500M Euro by manquer on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @12:01AM (#17547211)

True, but not all 100 of them are that level or being used full time for years would they ?

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Re:LIDL cancels SAP introduction after spending 500M Euro by darkcha0s on Monday July 16, 2018 @10:43AM (#17541625)

I think that price is a little inflated. 1200€ a day for a freelancer maybe, but the "normal" consultants will cost no more than 800-900€ a day because of blanket orders, etc.

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Re:LIDL cancels SAP introduction after spending 500M Euro by _Codemonkeyism on Monday July 16, 2018 @10:51AM (#17541715)

Not sure whom Lidl hired for their SAP project, if they hired from one of the big 'consultancies' which I assume, cost would be easily >2000 EUR/day.

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Re:LIDL cancels SAP introduction after spending 500M Euro by darkcha0s on Monday July 16, 2018 @11:11AM (#17541887)

I work with big consultancies, and they don't charge >2000€ a day for SAP developers, I know that for sure ;)

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Re:LIDL cancels SAP introduction after spending 500M Euro by _Codemonkeyism on Monday July 16, 2018 @10:50AM (#17541702)

$1200 is not realistic price for SAP consultants in Germany.

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Re:LIDL cancels SAP introduction after spending 500M Euro by patman81 on Monday July 16, 2018 @10:42AM (#17541615)

One way to calculate: 7years × 365days × 2k/day × 100 "experts" = 500m

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Re:LIDL cancels SAP introduction after spending 500M Euro by thinkingemote on Monday July 16, 2018 @01:09PM (#17542920)

People don't tend to work every day in a week, and there are holidays etc.

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