What's SAP? - Hackdot

Re:What's SAP? by starfallg on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @05:25AM (#22245561)

Process is king in mature industries where profits are extracted from scale and volume. Anything outside of standard process is expensive. If there is no external entity to bear the cost, then this cost is to be minimised.

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.

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Re:What's SAP? by NohatCoder on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @08:12AM (#22246410)

And now you have a company incapable of evolving in any meaningful way. The company will die with its current line of products.

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Re:What's SAP? by unixhero on Thursday February 06, 2020 @04:19PM (#22260444)

Unless incumbents are not susceptible to shakeups, like when that business is within for instance extraction of oil

Or a hospital

Or a drug manufacturer

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Re:What's SAP? by hef19898 on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @09:54AM (#22247122)

Rather with it's current way of doing business. But yes, in a way you're right.

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