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?
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Our file on SAP
- 5 Nov
SAP says its network handles over $8 trillion of trade a year. Its AI agent post names no customer.
- 5 Nov
SAP says AI agents handle more than 90% of a wholesaler's 100,000 supplier confirmations unaided. Its Takeda figures are forecasts.
- 5 Nov
SAP says Somerset Council moved about 8,500 staff off its 17-year-old payroll system in 13 months, on budget. Nobody named the budget.
- 5 Nov
SAP offered 300 AI agents. Workday's product chief, a former SAP executive, called the autonomous enterprise idea "cold and soulless".
- 4 Nov
SAP won a Dutch military cloud deal of up to ten years. The ministry says it does not end its SAP dependence.
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