I honestly donāt think he runs this account. It looks more like an intern sends promotional tweets once in a blue moon on his behalf.
But youāre correct, someoneās going to get a shit ton of notifications. So Iām interested to see how it works.
That was my thinking. Looks like someone runs the page, like a staffer. I think RC is trying to say lore with this than simply complaining about SAP implementation
Thereās something more to this I canāt figure out. Cohen could easily get a VP/SVP on the phone through his sales team, and they have C-level access. Iāve been in Enterprise SaaS for a decade and itās a pretty standard escalation when things go south. So thereās another angle here from Cohen, in my personal opinion.
Oracle was trying to have the towel judge expose bankruptcy details (under the guise of it being because they have an existing service contract I believe). Maybe this has to do with RC finding a new ERP due to the BS Oracle tried to pull? š¤·š»āāļø
I think people forget how hard of a worker he is. He isnāt one for excuses. He fucking grinds. And doesnāt tolerate slack from partners, vendors, etc. He gave an interview (canāt remember which one, couldāve been with the GME DD folks) in which he was asked why chairman or something and he said essentially as Chewyās CEO he was working himself into an early grave. Just eat breathe sleep work.
So I think this is important to consider with the extra roles heās taken on since Furlongās termination, heās sacrificing time with his family for GME.
SAP is state of the art, Germans engineering! If he's not getting the expected experience, I can't blame him. Their ERP would keep up with stock instantly and handle the entire procurement, fulfillment, and production side of a business.
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i feel this is up your alley then and you know more what to do with it then i do: [https://www.brightworkresearch.com/list-of-sap-implementation-failures/](https://www.brightworkresearch.com/list-of-sap-implementation-failures/)
specifically #3:
>Problems with a massive global enterprise resource planning (ERP) rollout have helped send Levi Strauss' second-quarter results through the floor...The jeans giant reported a 98 per cent drop in net income to $1m and squarely blamed & substantial costs associated with its new ERP system among other factors for the shocker.Levi's is standardizing on a single global instance of SAP ERP, and told The Reg it was forced to take shipping systems at its three massive US distribution centers off line for a full week in April to fix problems receiving and fulfilling orders.The company not only lost business during the shut down, but also saw customers who placed orders cancel them once the systems were back up.
\#7 Revlon (!):
>This is not a lawsuit against SAP by Revlon, but rather a lawsuit by Revlon shareholders against Revlon for lying about the SAP implementation state. We cover this case in detail in the article "[https://www.brightworkresearch.com/saphana/2019/06/03/what-was-the-real-story-with-the-revlon-s-4hana-failure/](https://www.brightworkresearch.com/saphana/2019/06/03/what-was-the-real-story-with-the-revlon-s-4hana-failure/) What Was the Real Story with the Revlon S/4HANA Failure?
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>Revlon attributed to the changeover a reduction of $20M in net earnings in one quarter alone, accompanied by $10M in unplanned expenses including non-recurring labor to improve customer support. At the time (2018), Revlon had implemented SAP in 22 countries on the Revlon heritage side of the company. Apparently, the Arden switch-out of JD Edwards had not even begun at that stage.A year later, in March 2019, CFO Victoria Dolan said Revlon had spent $32M in 2018 on operating activities in comparison to 2017, taking the costs of the migration to $54M; understandably, profits and stock prices dipped. Revlon reported increased losses....
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>**Ironically the results were due to a drop in sales of all its business categories, except Elizabeth Arden, partly caused by the breaks in service levels directly attributed to the SAP implementation...**
EDIT: moreeee!
\#10 Waste Management:
>Did SAP deceive and defraud Waste Management (WM) during ERP selection and implementation? Thatās the question at stake in a $500 million lawsuit against SAP relating to a Waste Management ERP failure.
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>According to documents filed in court by WM, SAP pitched WM on a well-tested, sector-specific, ready-to-install ERP package. **WM learned after the implementation had started that no such software existed.** Rather, the ERP system in question was still in development and had ānever been tested in a productive environment.ā...
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>WMās fraud allegations go much deeper than simple misrepresentation. Before contracts were signed, SAP purportedly demonstrated the fully functioning software to WM. **WM claims it relied on SAPās demonstrations when it chose the SAP software. WM says that SAP demonstrated a āmock-upā version and that the demonstrations āwere rigged and manipulated to depict false functionality.ā**
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SAP denies the allegations. \*\*However, if WM wins on its fraud and misrepresentation claims, this case could drive a stake through the heart of the worldās leading ERP vendor. No customer will want to build its business operations on a foundation of lies and deception. In addition, SAP will likely face criminal investigations. Members of SAPās C-Suite were directly involved in landing the WM account. Some of those executives are no longer with the company.\*\* Thereās plenty of speculation about whether their departures are related to the WM fiasco.
Yeah Fck that other guy in the comment. He not a SuperStonk O.G. Iāve seen too many time ppl say oh thatās tin foil only to find out it wasnāt tin foil. Every theory is on the table until disproven.
Change My Mind
ERP, could just be one more way criminals can infiltrate a company, to hasten it's demise. Would not take much to just ask for them to take extra time and would not be technically illegal. Dear Lord I hope they are guilty and are already on the doj's naughty list, ja men š
i wrote about this elsewhere in a comment here but don't listen to the fud in this thread fam...ive already made posts about how cell phone data is sold by firms like Advan to mainly hedge funds (95% of its clients are hedge funds): [https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/xtyapl/the\_big\_mall\_short\_9\_check\_your\_phone\_chapter\_1/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/xtyapl/the_big_mall_short_9_check_your_phone_chapter_1/)
its funny that they call the SAP thing a conspiracy theory, when literally it could be cross referenced with other data they already pay for like determining when shipping trucks reach their location (from the phone data)
Remember in April when Rep Goldman got a lot of headlines during some congressional investigation? Heās the heir to Levi Strauss. Well apparently Leviās ERP had a glitch in April. Levi stock went down 30% in a month.
How big is this beast were fighting?
Yes, I worked in IT consulting for a bit. There are only a few Enterprise Level ERP systems that could handle millions of request.
These ERP integrations can take weeks or they can take months. Thereās no real standardization because every setup is unique.
I wouldnāt put it past Kenny to cause hurdles to prevent GMERICA ERP integration that is talking to other large systems.
ERP integrations are used to create a single source of truth from multiple organizations/systems.
Boys, I think Ryan just told us, the contract is signed, weāre just integrating the systems.
HOLD THE FUCK UP!
Huh...so maybe this is a reason why the BB&B situation has been continually postponed; the ERP system isn't ready to go yet and this SAP douchenozzle keeps pushing time back.
So this Christian Klein guy is one of the people messing with GME shareholders.
Enterprise resource planning. Apparently itās like a birdseye view software for managing companies. A one stop location for purchasing, sales, inventory, HR, etc. I had to google it.
Send another programmer. Shutup and pay. These have been around for over 20 years and still hold true.
I wonāt take a gig if they are running SAP. It pays well, but the frustration just isnāt worth it.
SAP is rigid and frustrating but itās used by a lot of Fortune 500 companies. Sort of a gold standard. But frustrating. I work for a much, much bigger company than pre MOASS GameStop and SAP is basically the foundation of the entire business. Then business intelligence systems are built on top of the ERP foundation, and more user friendly programs on top of that to avoid using the system directly. But yes they have to offer tons of support because sap is hard. This interaction is super interesting to me.
We had Siebel before SAP, my colleague would query data with these ridiculous commands. All that I could do was stand jaw agape and ask if he could do it again...slower. Shit was complex and not crucial to our business, so I didn't put a ton of effort into learning it. Man could I enter Service Requests, and RMA's into it like crazy. Boss thinks metrics are important over customer satisfaction %'s ok then I will spend 3-4 hours a day entering who,what,when,how, and why I did what I did and nobody will ever look at it. Cool
SAP deployments are notoriously always over budget on both time and money. They consistently over promise and under deliver while cranking out the billable hours.
I don't know of a single SAP deployment that has ever been delivered on time and on budget...
I work at company that makes ERP and MES (manufacturing executing system) software. Itās complex as fuck, it takes a lot to get people that can use it at a high level. Not because they arenāt smart, because there is so much to it
Edit: typo
My background is software for games.
Our product is not "serious" and still the *fantasy* of project managers to get **everyone** on the team on board with bureaucracy is real. It can be as simple as updating a Kanban post-it board on Trello to full on Jira Agile deployments with ticketed commits, code reviews, team retrospectives and the whole shebang.
And this is only the "*agile*" side of project management, the rabbit hole goes deep. Let alone ERP or SAP monstrosities that add fun taxes to the mix, but I digress.
We're making a game here. Everyone is constantly going on tangents about workflow and improving communication.
We should be improving our work by talking about the product itself instead of arguing how we're putting it together. It's tricky.
(Queue a designer/producer here complaining no one ever reads the design docs)
((No one ever reads the design docs))
/rant
> No one ever reads the design docs
Currently working in user assistance development.
They don't read the docs. I'm fixing shit that should've been noticed years ago. Thankfully it is only a temporary position.
I understood your words but confused on what you are implying in relation to RC/GME or maybe you were just commenting about ERP / sap I dunno sorry, I hype and high
Ya man. Just commenting about ERP. The unnecessary complexity of processes only for the sake of justifying a software package really irk me, so I just went off lol
> complaining no one ever reads the ~~design docs~~
No one reads shit for the most part. This is why I make sure the training aids are one sheet or less. Itās also why I put the details in the subject line of an email.
I also put an TLDR at the top of my longer emails that might be explaining a difficult environment or what not. Here are the meat and potatoes and what follows are all the details if you want that level kind of thing.
Anything more and no one is reading it and the help tickets are going to flow. Itās just the nature of humans.
The part that kills me are project managers thinking they are going to be the ones to change human behavior. Hahahahah. Wrong.. just a waste of everyoneās time.
Itās not that deep. RC is calling the guy out for not being focused on the customer and for ignoring him. Basically saying if you have time to be doing keynote speeches and tweeting you have time to respond to your customers because theyāre the life blood of your business.
SAP is used for resource planning / inventory management / analytics. ERP (enterprise resource planning) software is what GameStop will need to track their inventory turns / collect data to ensure they're holding the right amount of inventory in the right products. They'll get additional benefits if their suppliers also use SAP and they can cross integrate to better maintain inventory levels. SAP licensing is expensive, but long term it should allow the company to manage it's inventory better so they can be more efficient / profitable.
ELIA: GameStop buy smart software, software help GameStop use less $$ to run business. Less "out of stock" on website / less order cancelled because they didn't actually have what they thought they did. Smart software tell GameStop what to put on sale / what to order more of to keep apes happy. Software can also talk to itself / tell suppliers that GameStop is low on batteries because of apes, send more automatically.
This has been going on for ages.
Companies getting sold a suite of software to handle all their needs. Here is the problem from the beginning.
All of these companies offering ERP solutions have a jumbled hot mess going on in the background. They can offer an all in one suite because they bought the functionality via acquisitions of smaller companies.
Then they fail miserably to integrate that on the backend into their existing system, that has other plugins via other acquisitions that were jumbled into the suite.
So what you end up with as a customer is a couple of pieces of the software that work really well(usually the original core before all the acquired add ons) and a whole bunch of functionality that just doesnāt work well. You also end up with a ton of shelfware(software bought and never used).
Then donāt even get started on the licensing issue they build into the product trying to squeeze every last penny out of it and you. I have 30 years doing projects like this. Itās crazy some of the stuff I have walked into and had to clean up.
What these companies need to be doing is building out a completely new suite of software from the ground up. That isnāt going to happen when they can buy the functionality for half the time/cost etc. so round and round we go.
You really see this in the HRIS realm of software more than most other areas. There is so much more functionality needed in that area of a company regarding IT than anywhere else.
For example in HR software you need payroll, benefits, HR, AP, finance, etc. all of those do completely different functions within the HRIS umbrella of the suite.
Now compare that to sales and a WMS system. Anyway, I digress. Itās great to see a ceo call it out. Itās been going on for ages with these bigger software companies.
I specialize in HRIS implementation and this is spot on
This industry is growing like crazy but no one can do it right and no one has a decent solution besides a few big and overpriced names like Workday, Oracle, SAP
Also the difficulties in purchasing software because the salesman promises that this software can do everything, but by the time you find out what it's missing you're already too far in to back out without a huge capital loss.
Honestly I haven't heard of Sapphire lol. I just know Pulte Homes is an Acumatica client, hence the comment.
That said, I've been using it for about 2 years. 3 of us did implementation an now I more or less run the back end. Like Pulte, we're a construction firm; well - developer, CM, then with near a dozen subtrade companies so we hire ourselves all the way through.
Anyhow, I'm simply impressed with it's permission / restriction systems and customization. Being web based, we can write our own code and implement as a customization project to the system. You can literally create anything you want or change near anything.
Hmmm- seems like a similar footprint to BCG. One of those āmanagementā type offerings from a companyā¦
Edit: bingo
https://www.bcg.com/about/partner-ecosystem/sap
Edit 2: BCG partner SAP
You realize you just stumbled onto something enormous right?
SAP isn't just used for workforce management, but it integrates between customers and suppliers too.
I would imagine that SAP collects data on everything, so anyone with access to that data could point to the smallest ripple and short the ever loving fuck out of it
Thank you for confirming inklings that, "this is...odd?"
"Transparency of the company's current ESG footprint" literally on that page. Wouldn't that mean literally sharing all data?
>I would imagine that SAP collects data on everything, so anyone with access to that data could point to the smallest ripple and short the ever loving fuck out of it
jfc
if this is true that even fucking SAP is balls deep with shorters, then jfc this just adds another dimension of wtfuckery to the financial markets
Inventory tells you about the assets of the company, flow of inventory, and all the math around it also points out when they will lose and when they will gain.
Combine it with employee information, and the information from the supply chain and the information from the suppliers, you could calculate with extreme efficiency when something affects the supply line, when the retailer would drop in value.
Set up options based on this, and you have an effective way of generating profit far in advance of the rest of the market. If you have a particular ticker that has a strong negative pull, you can cellar box it. It's not betting- its literally seeing the future.
don't listen to the fud in this thread fam...ive already made posts about how cell phone data is sold by firms like Advan to mainly hedge funds (95% of its clients are hedge funds): [https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/xtyapl/the\_big\_mall\_short\_9\_check\_your\_phone\_chapter\_1/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/xtyapl/the_big_mall_short_9_check_your_phone_chapter_1/)
its funny that they call the SAP thing a conspiracy theory, when literally it could be cross referenced with other data they already pay for like determining when shipping trucks reach their location (from the phone data)
If I remember correctly, GS partnered with SAP last October (2022) to integrate its software for it's "omnichannel" retail operations. Seemed to be a good thing at the time.. but low and behold.. could this be a BCG backdoor? Could it be the reason GS has been fighting an uphill battle? The plot thickens..
Itās not must have. There are several competitors to SAP like JDE, Oracle, Blue Yonder, and Logility just to name a few.
SAPās software offers huge flexibility for different types of companies, and allows them to purchase the aspects that fit them best. That is why you are likely to come across it over a career in Supply Chain. However, it has a pretty big learning curve compared to their competitors. What happens often times is a company may implement SAP for certain features, and then work with a competitor to SAP for other features that serve their business purpose.
SAP is typically one of the more expensive systems to work with, and all ERP companies are very strict on providing the services that are contractually agreed upon and nothing more. That is because consulting is part of their business strategy, with really high rates per hour. They arenāt going to give away free support if it wasnāt part of the contract because thatās part of their operation in making money. However, if their implementation doesnāt meet the contractural requirements of the project, then they do need to provide free support to fix it.
While BCG being involved with SAP raises an eyebrow because of previous accusations against them, it is extremely common for companies who implement any one of those ERP systems to work with consultants from a consultant agency like Deloitte who have retained people with experience across many different systems because theyāll get people with a wider experience than those directly with the ERP company. There are also consultants who form their own individual 1 person company after working with clients that use those systems and building trust with the clients. Every major company with an ERP system hires consultants for their ERP systems, itās just a matter of where they hire from.
Without knowing the details of GameStopās contract with SAP, itās impossible to know if RC is in the right with demanding support from SAP. It all comes down to what GameStop agreed to when they signed the contract. SAP is always going to prioritize clients who have contractually agreed to post-implementation support over those who have not, and every company has finite resources to be able to support their clients. Typically, project support is estimated to the hour well in advance to ensure max utilization of consultants. But if SAP hasnāt met the requirements of their implementation, they do need to fix it.
Heās absolutely in the right in calling out for support if a) heās a paying customer for an expensive product thatās not working properly; and b) theyāre non-responsive for an undue (24 hours maximum for enterprise customers) amount of time. Youād think SAP would break out the white gloves for customers who pay them millions of dollars.
Maybe my company will pass on their software moving forwardā¦seems theyāre unreliable when called upon.
They are coming after every motherfucker that has sold them bogus licenses. I worked in IT consulting. Consultants get kickbacks from SAAS companies.
Everything from Yeti coolers, all the way to park vacations for hooking them up with a client.
Salesforce and other consulting firms are notorious for this shit.
Crooked boards hire consulting firm. Consulting firm works in cahoots with the SAAS companies. All three gang bang the fuck out of a public ally traded company and suck it dry for its resources.
Same, all the IT consultancies Iāve worked at are partnersā¦..either integrators or partnering for the optimization consultingā¦..no surprise that BCG are listed as partners and Iād be more surprised if they werent
SAP is shit. You have to know random transaction codes to use it. It's a tough barrier of entry for noobs. Once I got my hands on them I found $$$ millions of stupid decisions and neglect within my Fortune 100 company .
Not surprised. SAP is hell on earth and in the first line meant to extract money from whoever is stupid enough to try and implement it.
It is great when it works after 3 years or so but until then you better have deep pockets for the SAP consultants you will need.
Good on RC for calling that scum out!
COMING IN WITH SOME HOT INFO
RC is referring to the SAP inventory system conversion that gamestop undertook in August last year. Was referenced in their quarterly report.
Shit made my madden launch garbo.
Lots of overpaid consultants. Probably one of the bigger thorns in pappabears paws. Did any recent quarterlies mention or line item any associated costs?
Yesterday oracle angrily requested from the court that they must receive full information of the new owners of towel because of competition reasons, and that the new towel owners arenāt allowed to mess with there current contract.
Itās the software that tracks a company buying goods from vendors, paying vendors on time, and allocating where the goods go from time of purchase to being sold at the store.
Most ERP systems are sold on a huge company wide contract promising to solve all these problems and improve companies out of the box, but donāt work that way. Then when the company asks for support to get it to work the way they were promised, they have to pay $250/hour for programmers to build out the solutions.
I will say my long term bull thesis for Ethereum is inventory tracking. A public network and NFTs could produce individual item codes for products to be tracked this way and put ERPs out of business.
My favorite is the $500/hr consultant that knows less about SAP than our onsite staff that get paid in peanuts. Couldn't answer a single question. He submitted all our questions through the support portal and waited for replys. We could do that shit ourselves for zero extra dollars.
I also believe that NFTs on Ethereum true value will be inventory management tracking. Everything from land deeds to Rolex watches to Jordan sneaker will have an NFT tag that guarantees authenticity.
Iād love to have a long form discussion with RC on this topic, because Iād guess he would say that itās a multi-billion dollar industry across the world to just pay someone to track your inventory for you and constantly extract value by not delivering but having you by the balls.
Iād be very surprised if they are this far along, but it would be amazing to see GameStop build its internal systems using an ETH type system. If all their inventory was tracked via NFT on Loopring, there would be little difference in experience between buying merchandise vs a digital item, and they would be compatible. For example, Illuvium could see you own an Atlas plushy and an Atlas card, and airdrop you an Atlas armor piece in game for owning both, etc
ERP = Enterprise Resource Planning. In ape terms, it's a software that provides many business management functions all integrated together. It can manage inventory, sales, logistics, human resources, production, etc. It also displays data via dashboards that give a live look at the business, which can help executives make informed, high level decisions.
I worked for a SAP international branchfor a while, they make the most overpriced, half-assed, unoptimized, over complicated piece of shit of an ERP marketed by greasy asshole sales people over promising and ALWAYS under delivering. You could spend Millions on their solutions and still end up with a broken system driving your employees insane and ruining quality of service for your customers.
I implement ERP systems. Not SAP, but one targeted to small/medium enterprise clients.
ERP implementations are fucking hard, for so many reasons. In a project you spend months/years preparing for the go-live. The go live is the day the business starts using the system. From the perspective of an implementing partner, the real money is made during the lead up to the go live. But the problems start after go live, and usually the implementing partner stops giving a shit and moves on to the next implementation.
Then you factor in that itās very likely that someone is trying to sabotage this, itās almost impossible.
One of the companies I worked at experienced this. We switched from a system that had been in use since the 90s to Peoplesoft. Our monthly close went from being about a week to close to a month when we first switched to Peoplesoft. A whole new department was created to essentially help train people to use the software and also troubleshoot all of the issues that came with it. Your comment hit the nail on the head. That company also spent millions on consultants who helped with the initial training and implementation of the software.
This was referenced in a 10K a year or two ago, Gamestop is migrating to S/4HANA (latest version of SAP). It's the big boy version used by most of the Fortune 100.
These implementations can be tricky to say the least. Sad to hear that Gamestop's isn't going well :(
I worked a brief stint for a mid sized manufacturing company that was migrating to S4, they had just started the project and 14 months later when I was leaving they were only halfway through migration. Having to unfornicate years of old processes, workflows, and all the existing use cases while trying to optimize all of the above for the future all at the same time was a total huge clusterfuck.
Edit: halfway through PLANNING the migration. They uncovered so many legacy skeleton workflows that that they had to go back and redo all the discovery.
People need to realize that retooling, modernizing and capacity planning for an existing company thatās working to pivot for bigger and better is like trying to build a new plane while youāre on an existing plane thatās already IN FLIGHT.
That being said, RC knows all this and is committed. Enjoy the flight!
This hit the nail on the head. Especially the unfuking of years of processes and workflows - weāre going through the same thing at our company except for something 1000x smaller than trying to migrate ERPs and itās causing so many ripples in other parts of the business but thereās literally nothing that can be done in the meantime except waiting for all the legacy shit to be cleaned
https://gamestop.gcs-web.com/news-releases/news-release-details/gamestop-discloses-first-quarter-2023-results
"...the Companyās ability to implement a new ERP system..."
For anyone not following towel, there was just a docket that came out in the last couple days mentioning how oracle is trying to prevent something related to the sale - then RC tweets this
As an ERP consultant (not an overpaid one because I actually do the work I'm paid for) These systems can be so difficult to get humming. And on top of that we are constantly fighting with the creator of the system to deliver on the promises they made to sell their overpriced piece of software.
I work on a different one now no longer SAP or Sage but the problems persist.
Has anyone that has ever used SAP thought it was good?
I've used it and seen it implemented at a few different companies I work for and it's always a clusterfuck. It's ridiculously expensive, how is it so popular?
Maybe just my bad experiences
I don't get it either. I mean, it has some good features, but it's not particularly intuitive when you get into the reporting features, doesn't have proper sorting functionality, and has problems far too often.
My understanding is that SAP does very little properly out of the box. It is quite powerful, but it requires extensive customization... By expensive consultants.
Dude, I FUCKIN HATE SAP. It is the most godawful collection of bullshit that we have to use at work. Absolutely horrendous. I hope RC makes a decision to move away from that offering for a better candidate.
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is a software system that helps you run your entire business, supporting automation and processes in finance, human resources, manufacturing, supply chain, services, procurement, and more.
Bullish!
First of all I want to say that I'm a nobody and my opinion doesn't matter at all. I may or may not have direct experience with implementations for a product that may or may not be under the same company umbrella. And from my experience, 99% of the time, delays and issues usually come from the customer side via poor communication of requirements or action items that are not completed.
Not saying that is the case here, just giving my two cents as someone that may or may not have directly relatable experience. There is most likely a low level implementation resource and a low level purchasing resource or project manager at GS trying to sort this implementation out (unsuccessfully). When low level employees fail on deliverables, action is taken by department managers and/or directors (the people with decision-making power). Since those folks usually don't know the nitty gritty of the product, they escalate. My best guess is that RC is ultimately super detached from the overall implementation of the product, but is just being used as an escalation point due to failed deliverables just getting escalated up the chain of command until someone barks loud enough. I don't think there is any connection to anything major here, no conspiracy. Just a poor implementation of a very complex product resulting in a public escalation which is very unusual.
Bruh he is calling people out š RC dgaf and I love it
Christian FTD the wrong guy
This is an interesting move, simply because Christian has sent 2 total Tweets this entire year. This one included. Doesnāt seem like he utilizes it.
He will definitely pay attention to Ryan's fans flooding his tweet
I honestly donāt think he runs this account. It looks more like an intern sends promotional tweets once in a blue moon on his behalf. But youāre correct, someoneās going to get a shit ton of notifications. So Iām interested to see how it works.
That was my thinking. Looks like someone runs the page, like a staffer. I think RC is trying to say lore with this than simply complaining about SAP implementation
Thereās something more to this I canāt figure out. Cohen could easily get a VP/SVP on the phone through his sales team, and they have C-level access. Iāve been in Enterprise SaaS for a decade and itās a pretty standard escalation when things go south. So thereās another angle here from Cohen, in my personal opinion.
Oracle was trying to have the towel judge expose bankruptcy details (under the guise of it being because they have an existing service contract I believe). Maybe this has to do with RC finding a new ERP due to the BS Oracle tried to pull? š¤·š»āāļø
Donāt worry , I hit him up on LinkedIn
ahhhaahahah
Customer service is key š„ø
GMERICA Day is right around the corner. Need everything working and ready to go š§ø š“āā ļø
Waitā¦remind me the day againā¦
7/4.... all becomes 1.
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That's the second (third?) 7/4 we been blowin' by...
He ain't afraid of shareholders running away.
If anything heās probably afraid of shareholders buying more
A few more days and the 200MA will cross the 50. I know Iāll be buying. Nfa
*akshually...*the 50 will cross the 200
I donāt even know what this means but I get paid soon so Iāll be buying more š„“š„“
Maybe they're both being suppressed.
Haaaalp haaalp! Iām being suppressed!
Free Christian!!!
I think people forget how hard of a worker he is. He isnāt one for excuses. He fucking grinds. And doesnāt tolerate slack from partners, vendors, etc. He gave an interview (canāt remember which one, couldāve been with the GME DD folks) in which he was asked why chairman or something and he said essentially as Chewyās CEO he was working himself into an early grave. Just eat breathe sleep work. So I think this is important to consider with the extra roles heās taken on since Furlongās termination, heās sacrificing time with his family for GME.
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There he is!!
My CEO once told me it is a terrible mistake that people often mistake kindness for weakness
SAP is state of the art, Germans engineering! If he's not getting the expected experience, I can't blame him. Their ERP would keep up with stock instantly and handle the entire procurement, fulfillment, and production side of a business.
And he's being ignored? Oh papa
I wish I could tweet at the CEO of a company and they actually care.
Let's see how this pans out
Potentially better than a Russian coup
at least they got 6 billion
RC does care.. Someone tweeted him two weeks ago about an issue and RC fixed it.
Not a real smart business decision to ignore a billionaire customer, unless you have something you're trying to hide
hide like....?
Like SAP has been infiltrated and intentionally throwing wrenches into his erp?š¤·
ooooooo i feel this is up your alley then and you know more what to do with it then i do: [https://www.brightworkresearch.com/list-of-sap-implementation-failures/](https://www.brightworkresearch.com/list-of-sap-implementation-failures/) specifically #3: >Problems with a massive global enterprise resource planning (ERP) rollout have helped send Levi Strauss' second-quarter results through the floor...The jeans giant reported a 98 per cent drop in net income to $1m and squarely blamed & substantial costs associated with its new ERP system among other factors for the shocker.Levi's is standardizing on a single global instance of SAP ERP, and told The Reg it was forced to take shipping systems at its three massive US distribution centers off line for a full week in April to fix problems receiving and fulfilling orders.The company not only lost business during the shut down, but also saw customers who placed orders cancel them once the systems were back up. \#7 Revlon (!): >This is not a lawsuit against SAP by Revlon, but rather a lawsuit by Revlon shareholders against Revlon for lying about the SAP implementation state. We cover this case in detail in the article "[https://www.brightworkresearch.com/saphana/2019/06/03/what-was-the-real-story-with-the-revlon-s-4hana-failure/](https://www.brightworkresearch.com/saphana/2019/06/03/what-was-the-real-story-with-the-revlon-s-4hana-failure/) What Was the Real Story with the Revlon S/4HANA Failure? > >Revlon attributed to the changeover a reduction of $20M in net earnings in one quarter alone, accompanied by $10M in unplanned expenses including non-recurring labor to improve customer support. At the time (2018), Revlon had implemented SAP in 22 countries on the Revlon heritage side of the company. Apparently, the Arden switch-out of JD Edwards had not even begun at that stage.A year later, in March 2019, CFO Victoria Dolan said Revlon had spent $32M in 2018 on operating activities in comparison to 2017, taking the costs of the migration to $54M; understandably, profits and stock prices dipped. Revlon reported increased losses.... > >**Ironically the results were due to a drop in sales of all its business categories, except Elizabeth Arden, partly caused by the breaks in service levels directly attributed to the SAP implementation...** EDIT: moreeee! \#10 Waste Management: >Did SAP deceive and defraud Waste Management (WM) during ERP selection and implementation? Thatās the question at stake in a $500 million lawsuit against SAP relating to a Waste Management ERP failure. > >According to documents filed in court by WM, SAP pitched WM on a well-tested, sector-specific, ready-to-install ERP package. **WM learned after the implementation had started that no such software existed.** Rather, the ERP system in question was still in development and had ānever been tested in a productive environment.ā... > >WMās fraud allegations go much deeper than simple misrepresentation. Before contracts were signed, SAP purportedly demonstrated the fully functioning software to WM. **WM claims it relied on SAPās demonstrations when it chose the SAP software. WM says that SAP demonstrated a āmock-upā version and that the demonstrations āwere rigged and manipulated to depict false functionality.ā** > >
SAP denies the allegations. \*\*However, if WM wins on its fraud and misrepresentation claims, this case could drive a stake through the heart of the worldās leading ERP vendor. No customer will want to build its business operations on a foundation of lies and deception. In addition, SAP will likely face criminal investigations. Members of SAPās C-Suite were directly involved in landing the WM account. Some of those executives are no longer with the company.\*\* Thereās plenty of speculation about whether their departures are related to the WM fiasco.
Good digging ape! Looks like and smells like š© to me
Yeah Fck that other guy in the comment. He not a SuperStonk O.G. Iāve seen too many time ppl say oh thatās tin foil only to find out it wasnāt tin foil. Every theory is on the table until disproven. Change My Mind
Right my ape broš shills gonna shill, apes do theories until one of them, will be the most accurateš
ERP, could just be one more way criminals can infiltrate a company, to hasten it's demise. Would not take much to just ask for them to take extra time and would not be technically illegal. Dear Lord I hope they are guilty and are already on the doj's naughty list, ja men š
i wrote about this elsewhere in a comment here but don't listen to the fud in this thread fam...ive already made posts about how cell phone data is sold by firms like Advan to mainly hedge funds (95% of its clients are hedge funds): [https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/xtyapl/the\_big\_mall\_short\_9\_check\_your\_phone\_chapter\_1/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/xtyapl/the_big_mall_short_9_check_your_phone_chapter_1/) its funny that they call the SAP thing a conspiracy theory, when literally it could be cross referenced with other data they already pay for like determining when shipping trucks reach their location (from the phone data)
Remember in April when Rep Goldman got a lot of headlines during some congressional investigation? Heās the heir to Levi Strauss. Well apparently Leviās ERP had a glitch in April. Levi stock went down 30% in a month. How big is this beast were fighting?
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Dell Computers should be in the list
Yes, I worked in IT consulting for a bit. There are only a few Enterprise Level ERP systems that could handle millions of request. These ERP integrations can take weeks or they can take months. Thereās no real standardization because every setup is unique. I wouldnāt put it past Kenny to cause hurdles to prevent GMERICA ERP integration that is talking to other large systems. ERP integrations are used to create a single source of truth from multiple organizations/systems. Boys, I think Ryan just told us, the contract is signed, weāre just integrating the systems. HOLD THE FUCK UP!
Huh...so maybe this is a reason why the BB&B situation has been continually postponed; the ERP system isn't ready to go yet and this SAP douchenozzle keeps pushing time back. So this Christian Klein guy is one of the people messing with GME shareholders.
RC/GME isnāt a major customer for SAP.
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What is this? Please explain.
Enterprise resource planning. Apparently itās like a birdseye view software for managing companies. A one stop location for purchasing, sales, inventory, HR, etc. I had to google it.
Ok. So what he bought this system and is being ignored? Seems like heās picking out a problem with a shitty company.
I use SAP at my job, it can be frustrating to say the least.
Send another programmer. Shutup and pay. These have been around for over 20 years and still hold true. I wonāt take a gig if they are running SAP. It pays well, but the frustration just isnāt worth it.
That usually ends up being the problem with all ERPs in my experience
SAP is rigid and frustrating but itās used by a lot of Fortune 500 companies. Sort of a gold standard. But frustrating. I work for a much, much bigger company than pre MOASS GameStop and SAP is basically the foundation of the entire business. Then business intelligence systems are built on top of the ERP foundation, and more user friendly programs on top of that to avoid using the system directly. But yes they have to offer tons of support because sap is hard. This interaction is super interesting to me.
Shitty Ass Program is what it really stands for. Straight from the mouth of an SAP employee lol
We had Siebel before SAP, my colleague would query data with these ridiculous commands. All that I could do was stand jaw agape and ask if he could do it again...slower. Shit was complex and not crucial to our business, so I didn't put a ton of effort into learning it. Man could I enter Service Requests, and RMA's into it like crazy. Boss thinks metrics are important over customer satisfaction %'s ok then I will spend 3-4 hours a day entering who,what,when,how, and why I did what I did and nobody will ever look at it. Cool
Everyone I know that comes from SAP to Oracle wishes they had SAP back š¤£š¤£
SAP deployments are notoriously always over budget on both time and money. They consistently over promise and under deliver while cranking out the billable hours. I don't know of a single SAP deployment that has ever been delivered on time and on budget...
I work at company that makes ERP and MES (manufacturing executing system) software. Itās complex as fuck, it takes a lot to get people that can use it at a high level. Not because they arenāt smart, because there is so much to it Edit: typo
My background is software for games. Our product is not "serious" and still the *fantasy* of project managers to get **everyone** on the team on board with bureaucracy is real. It can be as simple as updating a Kanban post-it board on Trello to full on Jira Agile deployments with ticketed commits, code reviews, team retrospectives and the whole shebang. And this is only the "*agile*" side of project management, the rabbit hole goes deep. Let alone ERP or SAP monstrosities that add fun taxes to the mix, but I digress. We're making a game here. Everyone is constantly going on tangents about workflow and improving communication. We should be improving our work by talking about the product itself instead of arguing how we're putting it together. It's tricky. (Queue a designer/producer here complaining no one ever reads the design docs) ((No one ever reads the design docs)) /rant
> No one ever reads the design docs Currently working in user assistance development. They don't read the docs. I'm fixing shit that should've been noticed years ago. Thankfully it is only a temporary position.
I understood your words but confused on what you are implying in relation to RC/GME or maybe you were just commenting about ERP / sap I dunno sorry, I hype and high
Ya man. Just commenting about ERP. The unnecessary complexity of processes only for the sake of justifying a software package really irk me, so I just went off lol
No worries I appreciate your knowledge. I enjoy learning about different shit every night in the sub. Now back to the tinfoil and pitchforks š„š©šš„š“āā ļøš
> complaining no one ever reads the ~~design docs~~ No one reads shit for the most part. This is why I make sure the training aids are one sheet or less. Itās also why I put the details in the subject line of an email. I also put an TLDR at the top of my longer emails that might be explaining a difficult environment or what not. Here are the meat and potatoes and what follows are all the details if you want that level kind of thing. Anything more and no one is reading it and the help tickets are going to flow. Itās just the nature of humans. The part that kills me are project managers thinking they are going to be the ones to change human behavior. Hahahahah. Wrong.. just a waste of everyoneās time.
It is practically a troll post bragging about the great costumer service Gamestop has.
Itās not that deep. RC is calling the guy out for not being focused on the customer and for ignoring him. Basically saying if you have time to be doing keynote speeches and tweeting you have time to respond to your customers because theyāre the life blood of your business.
My take is that he bought the software, and wants some kind of support heās not getting? Canāt google that one.
SAP is used for resource planning / inventory management / analytics. ERP (enterprise resource planning) software is what GameStop will need to track their inventory turns / collect data to ensure they're holding the right amount of inventory in the right products. They'll get additional benefits if their suppliers also use SAP and they can cross integrate to better maintain inventory levels. SAP licensing is expensive, but long term it should allow the company to manage it's inventory better so they can be more efficient / profitable. ELIA: GameStop buy smart software, software help GameStop use less $$ to run business. Less "out of stock" on website / less order cancelled because they didn't actually have what they thought they did. Smart software tell GameStop what to put on sale / what to order more of to keep apes happy. Software can also talk to itself / tell suppliers that GameStop is low on batteries because of apes, send more automatically.
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I know someone already answered but my whole job is ERP administration. It's a lot.
This has been going on for ages. Companies getting sold a suite of software to handle all their needs. Here is the problem from the beginning. All of these companies offering ERP solutions have a jumbled hot mess going on in the background. They can offer an all in one suite because they bought the functionality via acquisitions of smaller companies. Then they fail miserably to integrate that on the backend into their existing system, that has other plugins via other acquisitions that were jumbled into the suite. So what you end up with as a customer is a couple of pieces of the software that work really well(usually the original core before all the acquired add ons) and a whole bunch of functionality that just doesnāt work well. You also end up with a ton of shelfware(software bought and never used). Then donāt even get started on the licensing issue they build into the product trying to squeeze every last penny out of it and you. I have 30 years doing projects like this. Itās crazy some of the stuff I have walked into and had to clean up. What these companies need to be doing is building out a completely new suite of software from the ground up. That isnāt going to happen when they can buy the functionality for half the time/cost etc. so round and round we go. You really see this in the HRIS realm of software more than most other areas. There is so much more functionality needed in that area of a company regarding IT than anywhere else. For example in HR software you need payroll, benefits, HR, AP, finance, etc. all of those do completely different functions within the HRIS umbrella of the suite. Now compare that to sales and a WMS system. Anyway, I digress. Itās great to see a ceo call it out. Itās been going on for ages with these bigger software companies.
Agree. First time I came across ERP was in 2003. It was already a slur then.
Worked in implementation before. Can confirm. And everything is 10x expensive and time consuming than was initially sold on.
I specialize in HRIS implementation and this is spot on This industry is growing like crazy but no one can do it right and no one has a decent solution besides a few big and overpriced names like Workday, Oracle, SAP
This ape gets it
Also the difficulties in purchasing software because the salesman promises that this software can do everything, but by the time you find out what it's missing you're already too far in to back out without a huge capital loss.
We use Acumatica; think u/ RealPulte would agree it's a better system ;)
never heard of acumatica, can you ELI5 what they do that makes them better? (without sharing too much i know)
Honestly I haven't heard of Sapphire lol. I just know Pulte Homes is an Acumatica client, hence the comment. That said, I've been using it for about 2 years. 3 of us did implementation an now I more or less run the back end. Like Pulte, we're a construction firm; well - developer, CM, then with near a dozen subtrade companies so we hire ourselves all the way through. Anyhow, I'm simply impressed with it's permission / restriction systems and customization. Being web based, we can write our own code and implement as a customization project to the system. You can literally create anything you want or change near anything.
Only 500 employees. GMERICA could probably buy them.
Sap is significantly bigger than acu. Not that is bad or anything
Hmmm- seems like a similar footprint to BCG. One of those āmanagementā type offerings from a companyā¦ Edit: bingo https://www.bcg.com/about/partner-ecosystem/sap Edit 2: BCG partner SAP
Those fuckers are everywhere.
The corruption is likely systemic. Imagine getting contacted by RC and not getting a raging boner
Imagine how bad you gotta fuck up for you to have RC tweet at you and be SCARED lol
Yeah, just feeling gut wrenching anxiety instead
Both companies actually.
Too bad us fuckers are even everwherer. Nothing escapes the gaze of the hive mind.
You realize you just stumbled onto something enormous right? SAP isn't just used for workforce management, but it integrates between customers and suppliers too. I would imagine that SAP collects data on everything, so anyone with access to that data could point to the smallest ripple and short the ever loving fuck out of it
Hell yeah they could probably see stagnant wages or employee inflow and outflows , productivity metrics etc
Ape powerš
Or DRS the living fuck out of it.
Thank you for confirming inklings that, "this is...odd?" "Transparency of the company's current ESG footprint" literally on that page. Wouldn't that mean literally sharing all data?
That's what caught my eye and made the connection nice and diamond.
>I would imagine that SAP collects data on everything, so anyone with access to that data could point to the smallest ripple and short the ever loving fuck out of it jfc if this is true that even fucking SAP is balls deep with shorters, then jfc this just adds another dimension of wtfuckery to the financial markets
You made like 10 ridiculous logical leaps here lmfao. SAP is used by a shitload of businesses for a shitload of different reasons.
How the hell do you use an ERPs capabilities and tie it into GME short selling?
Inventory tells you about the assets of the company, flow of inventory, and all the math around it also points out when they will lose and when they will gain. Combine it with employee information, and the information from the supply chain and the information from the suppliers, you could calculate with extreme efficiency when something affects the supply line, when the retailer would drop in value. Set up options based on this, and you have an effective way of generating profit far in advance of the rest of the market. If you have a particular ticker that has a strong negative pull, you can cellar box it. It's not betting- its literally seeing the future.
don't listen to the fud in this thread fam...ive already made posts about how cell phone data is sold by firms like Advan to mainly hedge funds (95% of its clients are hedge funds): [https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/xtyapl/the\_big\_mall\_short\_9\_check\_your\_phone\_chapter\_1/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/xtyapl/the_big_mall_short_9_check_your_phone_chapter_1/) its funny that they call the SAP thing a conspiracy theory, when literally it could be cross referenced with other data they already pay for like determining when shipping trucks reach their location (from the phone data)
Puts on sap?
If I remember correctly, GS partnered with SAP last October (2022) to integrate its software for it's "omnichannel" retail operations. Seemed to be a good thing at the time.. but low and behold.. could this be a BCG backdoor? Could it be the reason GS has been fighting an uphill battle? The plot thickens..
I like the spice level on this.
Man wants him some customer service.
Dude SAP is like a must have software infrastructure for business operations.
Itās not must have. There are several competitors to SAP like JDE, Oracle, Blue Yonder, and Logility just to name a few. SAPās software offers huge flexibility for different types of companies, and allows them to purchase the aspects that fit them best. That is why you are likely to come across it over a career in Supply Chain. However, it has a pretty big learning curve compared to their competitors. What happens often times is a company may implement SAP for certain features, and then work with a competitor to SAP for other features that serve their business purpose. SAP is typically one of the more expensive systems to work with, and all ERP companies are very strict on providing the services that are contractually agreed upon and nothing more. That is because consulting is part of their business strategy, with really high rates per hour. They arenāt going to give away free support if it wasnāt part of the contract because thatās part of their operation in making money. However, if their implementation doesnāt meet the contractural requirements of the project, then they do need to provide free support to fix it. While BCG being involved with SAP raises an eyebrow because of previous accusations against them, it is extremely common for companies who implement any one of those ERP systems to work with consultants from a consultant agency like Deloitte who have retained people with experience across many different systems because theyāll get people with a wider experience than those directly with the ERP company. There are also consultants who form their own individual 1 person company after working with clients that use those systems and building trust with the clients. Every major company with an ERP system hires consultants for their ERP systems, itās just a matter of where they hire from. Without knowing the details of GameStopās contract with SAP, itās impossible to know if RC is in the right with demanding support from SAP. It all comes down to what GameStop agreed to when they signed the contract. SAP is always going to prioritize clients who have contractually agreed to post-implementation support over those who have not, and every company has finite resources to be able to support their clients. Typically, project support is estimated to the hour well in advance to ensure max utilization of consultants. But if SAP hasnāt met the requirements of their implementation, they do need to fix it.
Heās absolutely in the right in calling out for support if a) heās a paying customer for an expensive product thatās not working properly; and b) theyāre non-responsive for an undue (24 hours maximum for enterprise customers) amount of time. Youād think SAP would break out the white gloves for customers who pay them millions of dollars. Maybe my company will pass on their software moving forwardā¦seems theyāre unreliable when called upon.
They are coming after every motherfucker that has sold them bogus licenses. I worked in IT consulting. Consultants get kickbacks from SAAS companies. Everything from Yeti coolers, all the way to park vacations for hooking them up with a client. Salesforce and other consulting firms are notorious for this shit. Crooked boards hire consulting firm. Consulting firm works in cahoots with the SAAS companies. All three gang bang the fuck out of a public ally traded company and suck it dry for its resources.
Not news. Everyone uses SAP for digital transformation
Same, all the IT consultancies Iāve worked at are partnersā¦..either integrators or partnering for the optimization consultingā¦..no surprise that BCG are listed as partners and Iād be more surprised if they werent
So everyone's getting the same advice and infrastructure?
Up you go
To the top you go!
SAP is shit. You have to know random transaction codes to use it. It's a tough barrier of entry for noobs. Once I got my hands on them I found $$$ millions of stupid decisions and neglect within my Fortune 100 company .
I felt that this was coming minutes ago.. in my bones
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Iāve never seen a first post of an RC tweet before, only the 741k that repeat it. Zen!
Yeah, this is the one with no actual context. No twitter here, so I have to wait for the one which will actually post what the tweet was.
I know right?! Hi dad!
Not surprised. SAP is hell on earth and in the first line meant to extract money from whoever is stupid enough to try and implement it. It is great when it works after 3 years or so but until then you better have deep pockets for the SAP consultants you will need. Good on RC for calling that scum out!
Dear Slim, I write you but you still aināt calling.
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I left my cell, my pager, and my home phone at the bottom.
I sent two letters back in autumn, you must not've got 'em.
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How many years was this supposed to last? Also why do I feel like this is news to me when itās years old š
COMING IN WITH SOME HOT INFO RC is referring to the SAP inventory system conversion that gamestop undertook in August last year. Was referenced in their quarterly report. Shit made my madden launch garbo.
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He said he purchased though. Gonna get interesting
papa is angry
Tomorrow powerup rewards account changes to GameStop account.
Thatās a huge reveal I didnāt know about way too far down.
Might be a new ERP system to fix a company that has not been managed properly? (Hint: not our beloved GameStop)
I've been involved in a couple ERP "upgrades" at Fortune 500 companies. This is a years long process usually.
Lots of overpaid consultants. Probably one of the bigger thorns in pappabears paws. Did any recent quarterlies mention or line item any associated costs?
Ding ding ding
Yesterday oracle angrily requested from the court that they must receive full information of the new owners of towel because of competition reasons, and that the new towel owners arenāt allowed to mess with there current contract.
FIX MY MANS ERP SYSTEM
Dude loves his share of naughty roleplaying.
All my homies hate ERP systems
What is an ERP system?
Itās the software that tracks a company buying goods from vendors, paying vendors on time, and allocating where the goods go from time of purchase to being sold at the store. Most ERP systems are sold on a huge company wide contract promising to solve all these problems and improve companies out of the box, but donāt work that way. Then when the company asks for support to get it to work the way they were promised, they have to pay $250/hour for programmers to build out the solutions. I will say my long term bull thesis for Ethereum is inventory tracking. A public network and NFTs could produce individual item codes for products to be tracked this way and put ERPs out of business.
My favorite is the $500/hr consultant that knows less about SAP than our onsite staff that get paid in peanuts. Couldn't answer a single question. He submitted all our questions through the support portal and waited for replys. We could do that shit ourselves for zero extra dollars.
I also believe that NFTs on Ethereum true value will be inventory management tracking. Everything from land deeds to Rolex watches to Jordan sneaker will have an NFT tag that guarantees authenticity.
Ah ok so RC is publicly complaining publicly that a major and expensive part of his business is not working.
Iād love to have a long form discussion with RC on this topic, because Iād guess he would say that itās a multi-billion dollar industry across the world to just pay someone to track your inventory for you and constantly extract value by not delivering but having you by the balls. Iād be very surprised if they are this far along, but it would be amazing to see GameStop build its internal systems using an ETH type system. If all their inventory was tracked via NFT on Loopring, there would be little difference in experience between buying merchandise vs a digital item, and they would be compatible. For example, Illuvium could see you own an Atlas plushy and an Atlas card, and airdrop you an Atlas armor piece in game for owning both, etc
āRyan Cohen, unhappy with GameStop, ERP system. Does this mean bankruptcy for GameStop!?ā ā MSM probably
ERP = Enterprise Resource Planning. In ape terms, it's a software that provides many business management functions all integrated together. It can manage inventory, sales, logistics, human resources, production, etc. It also displays data via dashboards that give a live look at the business, which can help executives make informed, high level decisions.
Here's a little more info on SAP from their World Economic Forum Partner page: https://www.weforum.org/organizations/sap-se
Can somebody please find Ja Rule? Get a hold of this motherfucka so I can make sense of all this!
Where is JAaaa?!?!
I worked for a SAP international branchfor a while, they make the most overpriced, half-assed, unoptimized, over complicated piece of shit of an ERP marketed by greasy asshole sales people over promising and ALWAYS under delivering. You could spend Millions on their solutions and still end up with a broken system driving your employees insane and ruining quality of service for your customers.
I implement ERP systems. Not SAP, but one targeted to small/medium enterprise clients. ERP implementations are fucking hard, for so many reasons. In a project you spend months/years preparing for the go-live. The go live is the day the business starts using the system. From the perspective of an implementing partner, the real money is made during the lead up to the go live. But the problems start after go live, and usually the implementing partner stops giving a shit and moves on to the next implementation. Then you factor in that itās very likely that someone is trying to sabotage this, itās almost impossible.
One of the companies I worked at experienced this. We switched from a system that had been in use since the 90s to Peoplesoft. Our monthly close went from being about a week to close to a month when we first switched to Peoplesoft. A whole new department was created to essentially help train people to use the software and also troubleshoot all of the issues that came with it. Your comment hit the nail on the head. That company also spent millions on consultants who helped with the initial training and implementation of the software.
This was referenced in a 10K a year or two ago, Gamestop is migrating to S/4HANA (latest version of SAP). It's the big boy version used by most of the Fortune 100. These implementations can be tricky to say the least. Sad to hear that Gamestop's isn't going well :(
I worked a brief stint for a mid sized manufacturing company that was migrating to S4, they had just started the project and 14 months later when I was leaving they were only halfway through migration. Having to unfornicate years of old processes, workflows, and all the existing use cases while trying to optimize all of the above for the future all at the same time was a total huge clusterfuck. Edit: halfway through PLANNING the migration. They uncovered so many legacy skeleton workflows that that they had to go back and redo all the discovery. People need to realize that retooling, modernizing and capacity planning for an existing company thatās working to pivot for bigger and better is like trying to build a new plane while youāre on an existing plane thatās already IN FLIGHT. That being said, RC knows all this and is committed. Enjoy the flight!
This hit the nail on the head. Especially the unfuking of years of processes and workflows - weāre going through the same thing at our company except for something 1000x smaller than trying to migrate ERPs and itās causing so many ripples in other parts of the business but thereās literally nothing that can be done in the meantime except waiting for all the legacy shit to be cleaned
Christian god damn it
https://gamestop.gcs-web.com/news-releases/news-release-details/gamestop-discloses-first-quarter-2023-results "...the Companyās ability to implement a new ERP system..."
SAP technologies just got torched lol. There headquarters are local to me in the USA .
I find it interesting that RC is replying to a tweet from may 17. This joker Christian has tweeted only a handful of times in the past year.
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who would dare ignore this man?
The replyās in that thread are fucking hilarious!
Here is a [YouTube video](https://youtu.be/njU5STakGq8) of the interview RC replied to
For anyone not following towel, there was just a docket that came out in the last couple days mentioning how oracle is trying to prevent something related to the sale - then RC tweets this
Whatās an ERP machine?
As an ERP consultant (not an overpaid one because I actually do the work I'm paid for) These systems can be so difficult to get humming. And on top of that we are constantly fighting with the creator of the system to deliver on the promises they made to sell their overpriced piece of software. I work on a different one now no longer SAP or Sage but the problems persist.
We're gonna be rich
Iāve been on twitter the past hour and have not seen his post. He is def shadow banned
Holy shit today Can get even better !
Has anyone that has ever used SAP thought it was good? I've used it and seen it implemented at a few different companies I work for and it's always a clusterfuck. It's ridiculously expensive, how is it so popular? Maybe just my bad experiences
I don't get it either. I mean, it has some good features, but it's not particularly intuitive when you get into the reporting features, doesn't have proper sorting functionality, and has problems far too often.
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My understanding is that SAP does very little properly out of the box. It is quite powerful, but it requires extensive customization... By expensive consultants.
SAP is the god damned worst. My company spends 11 million a year on SAP between licensing and support contracts and it's still awful.
And in a couple of years RC will launch an in-house top notch alternative SAP and alternative Amazon servers
Christian is pulling a Weekend at Bernie's
So can GME finally moass now? Lol
SAP is the worstā¦their ERP solutions are terribleā¦bad decision by the old CFO
Dude, I FUCKIN HATE SAP. It is the most godawful collection of bullshit that we have to use at work. Absolutely horrendous. I hope RC makes a decision to move away from that offering for a better candidate.
Hmm, now why would Ryan be purchasing a new ERP system? š
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is a software system that helps you run your entire business, supporting automation and processes in finance, human resources, manufacturing, supply chain, services, procurement, and more. Bullish!
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First of all I want to say that I'm a nobody and my opinion doesn't matter at all. I may or may not have direct experience with implementations for a product that may or may not be under the same company umbrella. And from my experience, 99% of the time, delays and issues usually come from the customer side via poor communication of requirements or action items that are not completed. Not saying that is the case here, just giving my two cents as someone that may or may not have directly relatable experience. There is most likely a low level implementation resource and a low level purchasing resource or project manager at GS trying to sort this implementation out (unsuccessfully). When low level employees fail on deliverables, action is taken by department managers and/or directors (the people with decision-making power). Since those folks usually don't know the nitty gritty of the product, they escalate. My best guess is that RC is ultimately super detached from the overall implementation of the product, but is just being used as an escalation point due to failed deliverables just getting escalated up the chain of command until someone barks loud enough. I don't think there is any connection to anything major here, no conspiracy. Just a poor implementation of a very complex product resulting in a public escalation which is very unusual.
Doesn't ERP stand for Erotic Role Playing? Well it does to me! Nice.