A careful analysis reveals what went wrong with FoxMeyer that transformed the pharmaceutical giant into the biggest liquidation case in US Bankruptcy History
FoxMeyer sued SAP, Andersen and Pinnacle. This is just a knee-jerk reaction of a business entity that had gone down. It wants to take others in its fall. It is easier to pass the blame on to something else because the hardest thing in the world is to call one's self stupid and claim full responsibility. After all, FoxMeyer is an American Firm, it just did what a stereotypical American firm would have done given the situation pass the buck and sue.
Anyone is his right mind, any disciple of objectivity and rationality will ask the question: "How can a software package alone bring down a large company?" An ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) and an automated warehousing systems, if they were poorly designed and installed could only be useless at worst. Even as ERP system designed to sabotage a company is not enough to......
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