Shoprite credits SAP ERP for helping it achieve its level of success

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The software behind Shoprite's incredible success

SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software has played an integral part in the success of the Shoprite Group's business over the past five years.

Despite major electricity challenges and consumer spending pressure during the period, South Africa's biggest grocery retailer has seen its sales and net profit grow by annual average rates of 7.4% and 4.1%, respectively.
 
I know CoT is also running SAP and it was working as should when I left.
CoJ billing crisis is steams for SAP where it doesn't work
SAP did cost SPAR big money not working for them in KZN

This is quite a change of mood when the group blamed the SAP implementation for earnings loss.


 
Since I am not in IT, my opinion from working at different companies.

SAP trumps the following from an end user point of view:

Syspro
Oracle
SAGE
 
If the software is so great, It would not allow me a place an order for an item that is out of stock.

how difficult is it to calculate the difference between how much you bought of an item and how much you have sold/written off/expired.

I think its more likely that Checkers developers accomplished a near miracle in how good of an experience they managed to build given the SAP handycap.
 
Since I am not in IT, my opinion from working at different companies.

SAP trumps the following from an end user point of view:

Syspro
Oracle
SAGE
I tend to agree with you. I do more of the system analysis side as my day job. Overall, all those older ERP systems have terrible architectural limitations. Much of the transactional processing is still done in batches and on scheduled timers, as if it's still the dial-up days where a retail location would dial into a central mainframe, made by IBM, to submit the day's transactions after the store has been closed and cash up is completed.

They just tend to slap a new front-end on bits and pieces of it and call it the "new" version.
 
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