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Allegedly Rigged Product Demo In SAP Suit Goes Missing
narramissic writes "Waste Management sued SAP in March 2008 over a failed ERP project. Now, well into the pre-trial discovery process, a presale product demonstration software package that Waste Management says was a key element of the 'false representations' SAP made to 'induce Waste Management into entering a software licensing and implementation agreement' has gone missing. Naturally, both sides say the other has it. And SAP, for its part, says it has 'searched extensively' for the system and wants it 'as much or more' as Waste Management, since it 'will help SAP disprove WM's fraud claim.'"
If you don't know what SAP and/or ERP is you should not be posting on /.
From the article: "ERP (enterprise resource planning) project"
Meaning, the management is unsure of what resources they have, and/or what resources they need, and/or how the resources should be used. Resources which might include personnel, fleet, plant and equipment, or not.
Bottom line - if management doesn't know what they have, or how to use it, they can't possibly program a software to manage all of it for them.
Next to the bottom line - the company failed in their stated goal of making software do the job, and they failed in management after the software failed.
Incompetent. (there, I spelled it right this time, find something else to (sic))
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