Ford is getting ready to switch off their legacy systems and switch to SAP. It's going to be a disaster. Mark my word.
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@gcg+1lioYiet : SAP is intended to replace the systems downstream of the WERS releasing process now done with BCIS/TeamCenter by the D&Rs. It will replace WERS and other applications in the purchasing and manufacturing spaces.
Yo don’t let the CTO hear ya. He’ll hand you a pink slip
WERS will live forever. SAP can’t bring it down.
Yeah, Project Conway lives!!! LOL
Purchasing tried to push the Bosch powertrain software to us back in 2010 and it was riddled with what ifs. We did more work to get it to work than actual calibration work. The people making the decisions have no idea how things work and everybody downstream gets flooded with headaches. In the end we stayed the course with our software as nothing was getting done. Everytime we asked Bosch Farmington if they had a solution they had to refer to Germany and it always was some add on module that cost extra. It really got sticky when we started to tell them how their code was wrong and did not work. And you wonder why VW got in all that trouble with the EPA.
At Ford there are a bunch of engineers trying to do the right thing and there are a bunch of Done Yets that never quit asking if you are finished. Sometimes there are more people concerned than their are working on the issue.
So glad that is behind me
They're still chasing that unicorn? They were attempting that while I was still there. Consultants had accounting thinking it was going to be easy as can be. Those of us with a brain tried to talk sense into them. But they weren't listening.
I expect it to be just as successful as the Everest procurement system was several years ago.
Which legacy system? SAP is involved in several.