SPAR under siege

[Bianke Neethling]

SPAR under siege

SPAR has confirmed that it faces a multi-million rand lawsuit following its botched software implementation in KZN, which comes amid continued financial struggles for the retailer.

 

[Smiggles]

 

[FiestaST]

lulz

 

[Sarg3_ZN]

No dark clouds straight to under siege?

 

[6spdmanual]

One step closer to kissing goodbye.

 

[Creag]

More doom and gloom

 

[purrr]

Angelo Swartz caused all this unnecessary kak. He took Spar from excellent to ****. It's Spars own fault that they didn't tell him to **** off and find someone capable of running their organisation and keeping ALL franchisee's happy before it was too late.

Lesson learnt. Much money down the drain.

Doesn’t the chairman get any blame?

 

[My_King]

Oh noooooes, SAP back at it again

 

[6spdmanual]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2026193768496365760

 

[gogga_]

Spar's implementation of SAP was a complete disaster. Probably zero planning. I don't know. Will be interesting to see if the franchise survives this.

 

[rustypup]

Spar's implementation of SAP was a complete disaster.

You are describing *every* SAP implementation.

 

[gogga_]

You are describing *every* SAP implementation.

Why do companies use it then?

 

[rustypup]

Why do companies use it then?

Really good question. Because shiny? Auditors selling it?

Masochism?

 

[gogga_]

Really good question. Because shiny? Auditors selling it?

Masochism?

But once it's successfully installed and eventually working it's excellent????

Crazy. So all the money and **** lost in the interim is acceptable??

 

[TofuMofu]

No dark clouds straight to under siege?

Soon they will be kissing millions goodbye and then it will be an end of an era.

 

[rustypup]

But once it's successfully installed and eventually working it's excellent?

"Installed" and "working" can be *very* subjective. Changing your internal SOPs to accommodate your ERP is just plain wrong.

Just ask Nike, Diageo, Lidl, Birmingham City Council, Revlon, InBev.....

 

[warrenpridgeon]

But once it's successfully installed and eventually working it's excellent????

Crazy. So all the money and **** lost in the interim is acceptable??

excellent or "acceptable"?

SAP consultants/implementation specialists rolling in there at R12k a day. They can configure it hardcore... but how flexible is SAP? I've always wondered. I've heard tales of "you have option A or B and that's that... if you want a more bespoke option you have to pay a lot and even then SAP might not even be willing unless you want bespoke stuff across multiple sections".