by Eric Kimberling | Nov 9, 2019 | ERP Failures, SAP failures, SAP S/4HANA Implementations
Just weeks after releasing our ranking of the top ERP failures of all-time, European-based fleet management company LeasePlan announced its massive SAP ERP failure. In this same announcement, the company also announced that it was taking a 100M Euro write-off and...
by Eric Kimberling | Oct 8, 2019 | digital transformation case studies, ERP Expert Witness, ERP Failures, Oracle Cloud ERP Implementations, Oracle ERP Cloud Expert Witness, Oracle ERP Cloud Failures, SAP Expert Witness, SAP failures, SAP S/4HANA Implementations
The enterprise technology landscape is riddled with ¬ERP failures from the last twenty years. Some are more extreme than others, but all have stories behind them. More importantly, they all contain important lessons that can help us in our digital transformations...
by Eric Kimberling | Aug 21, 2019 | Cloud ERP Implementations, Digital Strategy, ERP Failures, ERP Implementations, HCM Implementations, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Implementations, NetSuite Implementations, Oracle Cloud ERP Implementations, Oracle ERP Cloud Failures, SAP failures, SAP S/4HANA Implementations, SuccessFactors Implementations, Workday Implementations
Big ERP vendors can sell software and services like nobody’s business. Companies such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, Infor, and others have created monstrous machines capable of turning even the biggest skeptics into converts. But it all comes at a cost. In their quest...
by Eric Kimberling | Aug 14, 2019 | Cloud ERP Implementations, ERP Failures, ERP Implementations, HCM Implementations, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Implementations, NetSuite Implementations, Oracle Cloud ERP Implementations, Oracle ERP Cloud Failures, SAP failures, SAP S/4HANA Implementations, SuccessFactors Implementations, Workday Implementations
I have spent the better part of 20 years trying to help clients crack the code on why ERP implementations fail. It first started to click 12 years ago when I was engaged for my first ERP expert witness engagement for one of the highest profile lawsuits that the...
by Eric Kimberling | Jun 28, 2019 | SAP failures, SAP S/4HANA Implementations
Sometimes I get the feeling that people get tired of hearing me talk about some of the recent string of high-profile SAP failures. But then I post another article about the SAP failure at Revlon, Lidl, Haribo, or any of the others, and the article inevitably goes...
by Brian Potts | Jun 22, 2019 | SAP failures, SAP S/4HANA Implementations
SAP recently announced its “2025 Deadline,” suggesting support will end for all legacy products such as ECC and R/3 come December 2025. This has sent a shockwave through the industry and companies are scrambling to take action, and not all in a good way. Y2K Déjà vu...
