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We're implementing a new system here that was originally supposed to go live July 1st 2005 but has been pushed back so many times its not funny.

I just overheard one of the women who works with Accounts Receivable asking the software consultant when she was going to have training on the AR part of the new system. he says that should have been scheduled already and that she was going to do the training. she then bursts out asking how she is supposed to do the training when she hasn't had any herself. then the software consultant says they need to see the CFO.

stuff like that is going on ALL the time. this whole thing is a HUGE mess. even the people who work for the company who made the system don't know whats going on.

i've seen some fvckups in my previous company, but this one is probably the biggest one i have ever seen.

 
Ok, this situation is so similar to what is going on in our company, it is scary. I'm talking identical. Timeframes and everything.

WHO ARE YOU!
 
Originally posted by: Ramma2
Ok, this situation is so similar to what is going on in our company, it is scary. I'm talking identical. Timeframes and everything.

WHO ARE YOU!
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YGPM
 
yeap. wich is why i retired.

we had the SAME darn thing happen when we were going to SAP. they had scheduled someone ot get trained and then to train everyone else. trouble is the guy that was sopposed to train everyone got laid off.

i just didn't get it.
 
Originally posted by: waggy
yeap. wich is why i retired.

we had the SAME darn thing happen when we were going to SAP. they had scheduled someone ot get trained and then to train everyone else. trouble is the guy that was sopposed to train everyone got laid off.

i just didn't get it.
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SAP is a disaster. However, rather than spend the money on SAP, we are using a local company's software, which is about 32x worse. 😱 Cost savings, you know.
 
Originally posted by: pontifex
Originally posted by: Ramma2
Ok, this situation is so similar to what is going on in our company, it is scary. I'm talking identical. Timeframes and everything.

WHO ARE YOU!
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YGPM
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Same stuff is going on where I work. The first indicated roll out for the project that a consulting firm was doing was in 2000, just to give you an idea of how crappy this whole thing is. Now even though I am not a part of that group, they want me to build in-house solutions for our group, but in actuality my code and databases are slowly going to be ported into the other group and they will claim that part done. It is so ridiculous.

Their group is a group of consulting people of about 60-70. My group is 4-5 people and we have accomplished more. :roll: Of course, when that project is done, it is going to revolutionize the way things are done over here, so I don't mind if they use my implementations to speed up that process. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: iamwiz82
Originally posted by: waggy
yeap. wich is why i retired.

we had the SAME darn thing happen when we were going to SAP. they had scheduled someone ot get trained and then to train everyone else. trouble is the guy that was sopposed to train everyone got laid off.

i just didn't get it.
Click to expand...

SAP is a disaster. However, rather than spend the money on SAP, we are using a local company's software, which is about 32x worse. 😱 Cost savings, you know.
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I have never used SAP, but isn't that the financial "it" software?
 
Originally posted by: iamwiz82
Originally posted by: waggy
yeap. wich is why i retired.

we had the SAME darn thing happen when we were going to SAP. they had scheduled someone ot get trained and then to train everyone else. trouble is the guy that was sopposed to train everyone got laid off.

i just didn't get it.
Click to expand...

SAP is a disaster. However, rather than spend the money on SAP, we are using a local company's software, which is about 32x worse. 😱 Cost savings, you know.
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Indeed SAP is a disaster. Our SAP implementation was repeatedly delayed for over 3 years, and at that point they couldnt decide to go-live or sh1t can the entire thing. I miss the old 3270 mainframe. Biggest waste of hundreds of millions of tax dollars ever.
 
Originally posted by: DaShen
Originally posted by: iamwiz82
Originally posted by: waggy
yeap. wich is why i retired.

we had the SAME darn thing happen when we were going to SAP. they had scheduled someone ot get trained and then to train everyone else. trouble is the guy that was sopposed to train everyone got laid off.

i just didn't get it.
Click to expand...

SAP is a disaster. However, rather than spend the money on SAP, we are using a local company's software, which is about 32x worse. 😱 Cost savings, you know.
Click to expand...

I have never used SAP, but isn't that the financial "it" software?
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SAP has a number of software packages. We would have used it for SCM and ERP.

 
i forgot to mention that no one wants to show me anything about this system, even though i'm one of the 2 IT guys who has to administer it, but yet they all ask me questions about it and expect me to do stuff with it.

needless to say i started looking for a new job last week. its just gotten worse and worse lately and i just don't really know what i'm here for.
 
my company is currently working to migrate all AS400 data (30+ years of information including sales, product info, etc) over to SAP. They put a goal of a year....that alone scares me.
 
Originally posted by: Syrch
my company is currently working to migrate all AS400 data (30+ years of information including sales, product info, etc) over to SAP. They put a goal of a year....that alone scares me.
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we went from AS400 to SAP in a right over a year. though we kept the AS400 alive for another year...

SAP implementation was a disaster. it was very expensive and not many were trained on it enough to be useful. Not to mention SAP sucks. it seems they tried to make it confusing so they can charge more for training.

there is no reason why we need to send operators to SAP training (which SAP wanted us to do).

i think SAP was one of the main reasons i retired. heh
 
Hey, it could be like my job where I have to fill out training forms saying that I have been trained on procedures that I wrote.
 
Originally posted by: waggy
Originally posted by: Syrch
my company is currently working to migrate all AS400 data (30+ years of information including sales, product info, etc) over to SAP. They put a goal of a year....that alone scares me.
Click to expand...

we went from AS400 to SAP in a right over a year. though we kept the AS400 alive for another year...

SAP implementation was a disaster. it was very expensive and not many were trained on it enough to be useful. Not to mention SAP sucks. it seems they tried to make it confusing so they can charge more for training.

there is no reason why we need to send operators to SAP training (which SAP wanted us to do).

i think SAP was one of the main reasons i retired. heh
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I have no idea what SAP is, but they must be in league with the same people from CLS
 
Originally posted by: Joemonkey
Originally posted by: waggy
Originally posted by: Syrch
my company is currently working to migrate all AS400 data (30+ years of information including sales, product info, etc) over to SAP. They put a goal of a year....that alone scares me.
Click to expand...

we went from AS400 to SAP in a right over a year. though we kept the AS400 alive for another year...

SAP implementation was a disaster. it was very expensive and not many were trained on it enough to be useful. Not to mention SAP sucks. it seems they tried to make it confusing so they can charge more for training.

there is no reason why we need to send operators to SAP training (which SAP wanted us to do).

i think SAP was one of the main reasons i retired. heh
Click to expand...

I have no idea what SAP is, but they must be in league with the same people from CLS
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SAP is a customizable modular enterprise business software, german developed & unix based. Its primary function is Enterprise Resource Management...
Basically you pick the modules you want to use (fiscal, hr, inventory control, project management, data warehousing, etc) and deploy them to replace older legacy mainframe systems which performed the same function.
 
I'm in a similar situation too ... Time Entry system for the site ... original go-live was April 2005. Then it because September 2005. Then it became February 2006. Now it is at October 2006, and I haven't even been given time to work on it yet again. $300,000 vapourware ... the company is slow to respond to phone, email or even *gasp* faxes we've sent asking questions. They've given up on us 🙁
 
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