How much money has SLB drained in SAP initiative?
Has SAP really given tangible returns on investment?
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SAP used at my prior company was much better than at SLB. It was fully integrated there. Everything, I mean everything was in it, models, native files, pdfs, purchasing, vender docs on parts, production, everything... Here as SLB it shares time with at least three other systems and makes our work so inefficient.
Accounting to the Superuser, I have no comment on it. Some Superusers in the HFH just landed in the USA and work for SLB for less than six months. The young guy doesn't have much work experience. What do you expect from the Superstars? Nationalism system.
I don't personally think SAP itself is a bad idea, it's great if you know how to use it. However, SLB never wanted to spend the money to train people professionally to use it, let alone hire SAP specialists for on-site locations. There's a lot of complex procedures that super users are not capable of handling, and that SLB should've hired professionals at least temporarily for this.
SAP does some things well and others not so well.
SAP engineering module is excellent for revision control and assemblies. Very good to use to keep change records.
SAP finance side is accurate
SAP HR side works, but not that efficient.
SAP purchasing module work perfectly but heavily relies on buyers instead of being automatic.
SAP production orders runs pretty well
The bad sides are:
The production control side. They made it too complicated to do what you want to do. Schedule does not work correctly in SAP and requires constant human corrections. There are too many separate transactions, instead of having everyone on page.
The learning module requires too many steps to load in training.
The maintenance model takes too many steps/time to enter it in.
Making reports is pretty bad.
SAP has no ios or android client which is crazy.
Over all SAP works and keeps track of everything. But it could easily be made more efficient to save a lot of time. It still relies too much on having a bunch of workers spending hours to do everything manually in it.
I don’t know if SAP made any difference in this particular downturn. As an SAP user at other companies, the version rolled out at my facility was like an SAP-lite knockoff purchased from some guy in a dark alley.