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Re:Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think by piokoch on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @05:55AM (#23165224)
"My engineer friend uses it for supply chain management, a beer store hq clerk helped implement it, construction accountant has used it, etc."

Is SAP something that can be somehow scaled down? if this is used for a beer store, it has to be really large store, if that's what is written in the cited article is true:

"A basic installation of SAP has 20,000 database tables, 3,000 of which are configuration tables. In those tables, there are ~8,000 configuration decisions you need before even getting started. And that’s why SAP Configuration Specialist is an actual job title!"

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Re:Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think by NikolaNovak on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @06:44AM (#23165534)
Ah,I guess context would help - "The Beer Store" is Ontario's [Corrected From "Canada"] monopoly province-wide beer retail chain.

You are absolutely right, a single retail store would not use such an ERP :)

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Re:Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think by bregma on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @07:24AM (#23165738)
Er, an Ontario-wide beer retail chain, owned by the province-wide beer wholesale monopoly, in turn owned by a cartel of foreign breweries.

Let me guess, you live in Toronto?

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Re:Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think by tripzilch on Thursday May 14, 2020 @07:40AM (#23178279)
> an Ontario-wide beer retail chain, owned by the province-wide beer wholesale monopoly, in turn owned by a cartel of foreign breweries.

good thing we have SAP to facilitate the development of large scale business, such as monopolies and cartels.

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Re:Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think by perl4ever on Thursday May 14, 2020 @09:41PM (#23187906)
I don't think the existence of SAP is particularly relevant to a monopoly that exists because of statute. Although I don't live in such a state, I know there are places in the US where all the liquor stores are government run.
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Re:Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think by NikolaNovak on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @08:14AM (#23166043)
Corrected! Thx :)
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Re:Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think by hello_moto on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @10:17AM (#23167099)
SAP has two scaled-down ERP products:

https://www.acclimation.com/au/solutions/sap-bydesign-vs-bus...

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