Would you rather buy two cars, a bike, a scooter and plane tickets when necessary for $50,000 or...would you rather buy an all-in-one Car-Bike-Scooter-Jet (CBSJ) for $1mm?
Sure, it would be nice to have a single mode of transportation for all of your needs but for a $1mm? And would the CBSJ do a better job than say 1) using a fuel efficient car for a commute, 2) a pick-up truck for hauling things and 3) a scooter for the kids to better manage your transportation needs?
World class business operations vary from department to department, country to country and business line to business line. The cadence to which all of these groups march is varied. For example, the General Ledger has seen some change over the years but is still really the same General Ledger used in the 19th century. The supply chain, on the other hand, is a constantly changing beast that is affected by geopolitics, energy prices, new inventions and government legislation - it changes more in a day than the General Ledger changes over 3 decades. How can two functional areas, with drastically different cadences, live together on the same development cycle? They can't...in fact, that's why SAP gave up 10 years and billions of dollars when they scrapped their WMS solution and re-wrote it as a stand alone solution.
For years, we heard from SAP that everything needed to be integrated. Only to find out they were wrong. Very wrong. And many companies paid a heavy price. Best of breed software vendors create highly advanced solutions designed to meet your business goals at the lowest possible cost - period.
Don't buy a CBSJ, it doesn't exist - find an enterprise class best of breed solution designed to help you meet your business goals.
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