LIDL cancels SAP introduction after spending 500M Euro
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Re: LIDL cancels SAP introduction after spending 500M Euro
#2I think if you're going to link to a non-English story you should either find an English version of it and link to that or host a translation of it somewhere yourself. This after all is why I have kept from posting some interesting Danish content.
Re: LIDL cancels SAP introduction after spending 500M Euro
#3Many (article says 100) consultants with xK$ per day runs up 500M fast.
Re: LIDL cancels SAP introduction after spending 500M Euro
#4I think if you're going to link to a non-English story you should either find an English version of it and link to that or host a translation of it somewhere yourself. This after all is why I have kept from posting some interesting Danish content.
Looks like the only source is a letter from Lidl to employees that a local newspaper ('Heilbronner Stimme') got hold of. Lidl is usually very secretive.
Re: LIDL cancels SAP introduction after spending 500M Euro
#5Well at least they pulled the plug and didn't go bankrupt like Target Canada
Re: LIDL cancels SAP introduction after spending 500M Euro
#6I think if you're going to link to a non-English story you should either find an English version of it and link to that or host a translation of it somewhere yourself. This after all is why I have kept from posting some interesting Danish content.
As a native German speaker: The Google translation is fairly good: https://translate.google.de/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=y&prev=...
The article is fairly thin on content, though. It barely contains more information than the Hacker News headline.
Re: LIDL cancels SAP introduction after spending 500M Euro
#7That is an unbelievable amount of money to waste on a cancelled project. It's funny how these turn into an ego thing for the project owner. If the person in charge has good links and reputation, they can keep getting funding year on year, even when the project has gone bad. Usually they are good talkers, but bad executors and have been at a firm for a significant number of years (so people think twice about firing them because of the severance package alone). I've seen this at every investment bank I've worked in, with projects racking up GBP 40m in spend before getting canned. I suppose it uplifts the GDP at least...
Re: LIDL cancels SAP introduction after spending 500M Euro
#8minimally corrected google translation of the (short) article:
Lidl is wasting 500 million euros
Because the introduction of a new data system did not work out, Deutsche Post already had to record a high loss several years ago. The same thing happened to Lidl. After seven years and costs of more than half a billion euros, the planned system is still not running smoothly. Now the discounter has pulled the ripcord.
Lidl has been on an expansion course for years. The discount store from Neckarsulm now has branches in almost every country in Europe and is now also growing in the USA. A new merchandise management system was needed to easily keep track of the increasingly complex business processes and to control branches, purchasing and logistics. Therefor the decision in 2011.
System is not good for high-turnover countries
Software from the Walldorf-based software company SAP was to be adapted to the needs of Lidl. So far, however, the new system has only been introduced in some small agencies in Austria, Northern Ireland and the USA. It has been shown that the SAP version developed by over one hundred IT specialists is not suitable for high-turnover countries. Now Lidl has stopped the project. In one of the newspaper "Heilbronner Stimme" present letter to the coworkers it is said that the actual "goals" are "not reachable with justifiable effort". So far, according to expert opinion, the project has consumed more than half a billion euros - for expensive IT consultants and SAP licenses, for example. Now Lidl wants to further develop its own inventory management system.
Re: LIDL cancels SAP introduction after spending 500M Euro
#9I think if you're going to link to a non-English story you should either find an English version of it and link to that or host a translation of it somewhere yourself. This after all is why I have kept from posting some interesting Danish content.
I would love to read some interesting Danish content!
Re: LIDL cancels SAP introduction after spending 500M Euro
#10I think if you're going to link to a non-English story you should either find an English version of it and link to that or host a translation of it somewhere yourself. This after all is why I have kept from posting some interesting Danish content.
As a HN reader, I would ask you to _do_ post Danish content, or in any other language that you know. There is so much more info on the web that is not available in English. And once we know about, Google translate helps to read it.