SAP projects are often large, complex and very expensive endevours for most companies. The value they provide if done right (on time and budget) can be tremendous. For many organizations, and integrated system like SAP will help them realize new levels of efficiency and savings when looked at over the course of many years.
To archive those results, however, organizations have to be willing to let go of the way they currently do things and approach not only the system but also their business practices with a new paradigm. This is more often then not where companies fall down in their SAP journey. They want the benefits that the standardization and integration that SAP provides but they don’t want to let go of their familiar way of doing business.
The clip below is a humors look at the serious implications of not managing a SAP project well! Enjoy!