Most SAP projects don’t fail at go-live. They fail much earlier, quietly. The moment leadership approves an unclear scope, an unrealistic timeline, or a politically safe decision, risk is already locked in. At that stage, no methodology, no vendor, and no hero consultant can fix it. What I’ve seen repeatedly is this: everyone hopes execution will compensate for poor decisions. It never does. Strong SAP programs are built on uncomfortable clarity early, not optimism later.

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The issue with SAP projects emanates at the requirement gathering time, when the Business Analyst involved in that part of the project try to steers requirements to align it with SAP functionality to ensure SAP scores better during final selection phase and selected. There are always vested interest that are at play like bringing in implementation resources from proffered sources/implementation partners. That does cause lots of issues during implementation time including delays and scope creep which still end up benefiting the implementation partners. Unfortunately, to my knowledge even the Big Solution Advisory firms do not use an auditable framework to ensure transparency which should be made mandatory.

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The issue is far earlier than that. The issue is choosing SAP and then trying to figure out your problem statement, operational inefficiencies and, lack of alignment between business strategy and technology.

Almost all SAP projects I have come across are over budget, poorly architected and heavily reliant on external parties.

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we can tackle most technologies stacks, and we can streamline overcomplicated processes, but, we often overlook the craziness and the culture of clients as being part of the success of an implementation

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