Your cutover plan forgot the 47-tab spreadsheet.
You know the one.
Three hours before payroll, someone asks for a small change and discovers that the spreadsheet is the real ERP.
Then the undocumented Z-table from 2003 appears. Its developer left in 2009. The tester signed off "works as expected" without checking what was expected. The consultant's five-day knowledge transfer has become a two-hour call.
At 16:59 on Friday, SAP S/4HANA produces a short dump. Nobody opens it until Monday.
Every one of them makes it to the cutover weekend. None of them is in the plan.
Which one turned up at your last go-live?
Companies in this story
Our file on SAP
- 20 Sept
SAP's chief executive said voice replaces much data entry in three years.
- 19 Sept
KPMG cut jobs in its SAP and AI teams. Partners averaged £880,000.
- 17 Sept
Broadcom raised VMware prices by 10x or more, European cloud providers say.
- 17 Sept
Grocery Outlet's SAP launch cut gross margin by almost 2 points.
- 11 Sept
Zeiss dropped the clean rebuild of its SAP after about €200 million.
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