Those are birth pains as felt from inside. It's a beginning of a new sentient life; your company is acquiring its own mind. You and your coworkers are now just nodes in the network. Individual reports don't make intuitive sense for the same reason a random block of machine code doesn't tell you much about the purpose of a program, or why a random neuron doesn't know what the brain is thinking. You're part of something greater now. You're compute incarnate, the process made flesh. Welcome to the collective. Resistance is futile.
(Honestly though, this applies to many corporations in general; I think SAP is a kind of parasite that thrives off corporate life forms, exploiting popularity as a reproduction vector. After infecting a corporation, SAP keeps it alive and makes it display the signs of infection, which is used to encourage other corporate life forms to get infected themselves.)
Yeah. Kind of like 'Aliens' when one bursts through a chest cavity.
Kind of like the ant colony being sentient but the individual ants not (see Gödel, Escher, Bach).
You and I may not agree with this approach, and the formula is somewhat different for creative industries, but numbers don't lie. It's always a compromise between agility/adaptability and cost when in a production line.
A main function of an ERP system like SAP is to maximise this extraction.
Or a hospital
Or a drug manufacturer
This isn't a problem with a standardized process, this is a problem with leadership not explaining to those doing the work how they fit into the whole and why their actions are important.
"Process driven" does not have to mean rote, mindless, automaton-like action. It should be more about thoughtful action conscious of how those actions have downstream effects rather than intuitive "do what feels right" methods