LIDL cancels SAP introduction after spending 500M Euro

Re:LIDL cancels SAP introduction after spending 500M Euro by dragonwriter on Monday July 16, 2018 @05:39PM (#17545389)

> One of the reasons companies adopt software like SAP is to replace process expertise with software. If a highly paid process expert accomplishes a task in half the time a poorly paid person accomplishes the same task with SAP, SAP wins if the poorly paid person makes half as much as the well paid one.

Assuming SAP is free both to license and implement. From what I've heard of SAP installations, that's rather far from the normal case.

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Re:LIDL cancels SAP introduction after spending 500M Euro by rbanffy on Monday July 16, 2018 @05:47PM (#17545453)

It really depends on your scale. If you replace a thousand people who earn a thousand more than their replacements, you made a million right there.

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Re:LIDL cancels SAP introduction after spending 500M Euro by dragonwriter on Monday July 16, 2018 @05:53PM (#17545487)

> If you replace a thousand people who earn a thousand more than their replacements, you made a million right there.

Well, no, doing some quick research, because SAP annual license costs are substantially > $1000 per user, you've lost something like at least half a million and potentially several million in that case. Just considering license fees, and not other SAP-related costs.

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