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Re:LIDL cancels SAP introduction after spending 500M Euro by nraynaud on Monday July 16, 2018 @11:42AM (#17542182)
Can't they split the project and try to introduce the tool or fail by pieces? I know management and sales wants big figures to compute a mass discount and be in the press, but in the nitty gritty, isn't it better to screw up only part of the company?
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Re:LIDL cancels SAP introduction after spending 500M Euro by mbesto on Monday July 16, 2018 @11:53AM (#17542280)
Yes - most roll-outs will do phase approaches (unclear if Lidl did this or not). A good strategy is to do a smaller country roll-out for example, learn all of the lessons and then roll it out elsewhere. It's however not a blanket strategy and requires context to decide which is the right way.
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Re:LIDL cancels SAP introduction after spending 500M Euro by hibbelig on Monday July 16, 2018 @02:22PM (#17543643)
Lidl rolled it out in the smaller countries, learned the lesson that it's not going to work, and stopped it.
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Re:LIDL cancels SAP introduction after spending 500M Euro by quikoa on Monday July 16, 2018 @05:00PM (#17545071)
What I find crazy is that it still took 500M to figure that out.
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Re:LIDL cancels SAP introduction after spending 500M Euro by rbanffy on Monday July 16, 2018 @05:38PM (#17545380)
It took that much for all levels of management involved to admit it was hopeless and for the top level to ax them.
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