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On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 08:55:29AM +0100, Tom Potts wrote: > No - I think you'll find SAP is a way of extracting massive amount of contract > and training money from companies because they know that the computer > knowledge of most of their customers is greatly inadequate. > When a company tries to implement ERP and there are a few knowlegable people > in position to guide the implementation and stop people using MS office to > provide useless content then it can be quite usefull and save a company huge > amounts. In the UK this rarely happens as the people in power are generally > IT/complexity ignorant and like to think that power means they can ignore the > rules. > One company I worked for had a reasonably well implemented ERP system that was > undermined by salesbods selling things at below cost price and on a sale or > return basis because they still got commission. We could have set the EPR > system to prevent this - until it transpired that the commission was repeated > all the way up the tree and selling at a loss paid the directors more than > running the company at a profit would. > Couldn't get that one into the shareholders report somehow.... > > I haven't used Compiere but if I could get a version that ran on mySql or > postgres ( and there were 48 hours in the day) - and it had an html front > end/document management then I'd implement it as the core system for just > about everything. > Tom te tom te tom There are versions and this field seems to be expanding from when I looked about 10 months ago (was looking for a corporate accounting system) - http://www.openmfg.com/ - http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.407 But yes any implementation of such a massive software program into a company demands top management buy-in and commitment to make it work. This is not software that can be delegated to someone to implement. -- Henry Tue Oct 17 09:42:09 BST 2006
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