Re: Hersey and SAP - how did the train wreck end?

Like I said, my gut tells me that some IT managers are padding their
résumé's.

Paul Nelson
Arbor Solutions, Inc.
708-670-6978 Cell
708-923-7354 Home
pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glenn Ericson" <Glenn-Ericson@xxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>;
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Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 12:32 PM
Subject: Re: Hersey and SAP - how did the train wreck end?


> Paul,
> I've heard of  23x $35 mill, over-run, lowered  implementation standards
of
> success with shorter. function as satisfaction of completion -and still
> counting .  I can't  tell you  who is to  blame but there appears to be a
> trend.
>
>
> At 03:21 PM 6/7/2003 -0500, Paul Nelson wrote:
> >A couple of years ago, a large homebuilder client of mine told me that he
> >had been told by the owner of an even bigger competitor that his company
was
> >in the process of implementing SAP. My first thought was the IT manager
was
> >padding his resume, cuz even JDE had gotten out of that market segment. I
> >then asked him how bad the implementation was going. The answer was 35
> >million and counting.
> >
> >The owner of that company really didn't understand what he had been
talked
> >into. Like Ken said, more money than brains.
> >
> >Paul Nelson
> >Arbor Solutions, Inc.
> >708-670-6978 Cell
> >708-923-7354 Home
> >pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Don" <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 1:43 PM
> >Subject: RE: Hersey and SAP - how did the train wreck end?
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Seems like I heard something about CompUSA doing the same thing....
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 jack.roughgarden@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > >
> > > > Didn't IBM spend several million on one of their divisions before
> >showing
> > > > SAP to door ???
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > "Shields, Ken" <kenshields@xxxxxxx>
> > > > Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > 06/03/2003 01:44 PM
> > > > Please respond to Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >         To:     "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'"
> ><midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >         cc:
> > > >         Subject:        RE: Hersey and SAP  - how did the train
wreck
> >end?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > SAP also ran aground recently with the third largest retailer in the
US.
> > > >                  Some companies, I swear, have more money than
brains...
> > > > Ken
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Booth Martin [mailto:Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 1:31 PM
> > > > To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > Subject: Hersey and SAP - how did the train wreck end?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >  Who knows how the SAP trainwreck at Hersey Chocolate ended?
(Rememebr
> >a
> > > > couple of Halloweens ago they couldn't deliver candy? )
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------
> > > > Booth Martin   http://www.MartinVT.com
> > > > Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------
> > > >
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