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… decades, has proven not to be true. The more customers have bought into this sales pitch, the more unplanned expenses and corrections and customizations were required of the ERP systems they purchased and implemented. ERP vendors have been lying to a wide variety of industries declaring that they have functionality purpose-built for them that they do not. Consulting companies assist in this lie by telling prospects that whatever is in the sales literature from the ERP vendors they partner with is true.

… application interfaces and the ability to connect various applications. This point is reinforced by a 2007 article in the MIT Sloan Management Review.
“Just as companies were undertaking multiyear ERP implementations, the Internet was evolving into a major force, changing the way companies transacted business with their customers, suppliers and partners.”
Here’s a concrete example of how far integration has come since ERP first became popular. I recently installed an application called Yesware off of the Internet. Yesware automatically integrates with my Gmail to track emails, and also integrates with a variety of CRM applications; this is integration …

… forecasting methods used by DP, everything in all the modules. However, if we broaden the search for novel functionality for ERP, we can see that MRP and DRP were well established before SAP adopted them.
There is nothing new in SAP BW either. SAP is one of the few vendors partnering with smaller software companies to co-opt their technology and build their products from it. So SAP has copied its functionality from everywhere.
However, I don’t think that is what SAP means when they refer to best practices.
Evidence That SAP Software Is Not Based on Best Practices …