The worst SAP/HANA implementation trouble is happening in Japan now May 2024
A food manufacturer with consolidated sales of about USD2129 million and a history of more than 100 years, Glico's website on May 1 states the following;
Due to a system failure that occurred on April 3 as a result of a switchover in the core system, we had been aiming to resume shipments of chilled products by mid-May, but has postponed the resumption in order to take all possible measures.
The failure of 17 products for more than a month is the biggest failure that has ever occurred in Japan. (Including sold on consignment, the total number would be around 50.)
Glico estimates the decrease in sales at USD97 million, but I believe that there will be even greater costs, especially in relation to retailers. The inability to provide a stable supply is terrible for major retails, which will ask huje penalty.
The switch to HANA (integration of sales, procurement, manufacturing, logistics, and accounting by building on HANA) was scheduled for December 2022 at USD138 million , but has been postponed to March 2024 and is said to become USD 220 million.
It has long been said that SAP is not fit Japanese manufacturing industry.
I was actually going to write an article about a recent HANA implementation failure at a major manufacturing company, but a much bigger failure has occurred.
Is this happening in your country?
Chief Executive Officer at Mawai Infotech Ltd
10 个月No Hiroshi San, It is not happening in India. In fact it is reverse here. Post implementation of SAP S/4 HANA customers are getting very fast ROI, lean inventory levels and improved customer satisfaction. In fact we have done around 9 implementation in last one year and all have been very successful. For very detailed manufacturing planning, SAP has very power tools like PPDS. For small companies features like Live MRP are doing wonders. Some time failures comes due to inexperienced consultants, poor planning , failure to forecast all possible logistic scenarios , not doing thorough testing , incorrect master data, less user training etc. In India with my experience so far more than 98% of SAP S/4 HANA projects has been great success. I have met you and seen your great product " ASPROVA" and i am a big fan of that too. Both the products " SAP S/4 HANA" & " ASPROVA" are great products. Thank you for sharing your thoughts !