RE: Sap Bites the Dust at Sobeys ($81 million) !!!

Iff all they need is financials and HR, they should look at something
simpler like 2000 or Lawson...



On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Lurton Keel wrote:

> An article in CNN said that the decision to leave SAP was because the
> inventory control and transaction system could not handle the load.  This
> has happened to SAP before.  Sobey's is leaving the SAP HR and Financials in
> place but is implementing a simpler IC transaction processing system.  The 5
> days without financials is nothing compared to stores running out of stock,
> which means less sales, which means you probably don't want to see the
> financials anyway.
> 
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