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SAP's CCC/CCoE will determine the success of the S/4 conversion in the coming years, because only at the SAP base can the challenges regarding licenses, automation, staff shortages, monitoring, security and digital transformation be solved.

SAP CEO Christian Klein has achieved a great feat: the pre-programmed crash was prevented. SAP has turned the corner, has not landed in the ditch and is now in calm waters. But where will the company go from here? No one at SAP knows.

Nowhere does a prediction seem to be as difficult as in IT - especially when it concerns the ERP future. The current example of ChatGPT has shown how quickly supposedly safe parameters have to be re-evaluated.

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To err is human, and that is why many industries have prototypes with which to test the future. While the automotive industry keeps surprising, SAP is content with a promise of maintenance until 2040.

There are currently many construction sites in the SAP realm. Misguided personnel and product policies have created numerous legacy issues. SAP CEO Christian Klein is working to rectify the situation.

There is pressure to act, which SAP CEO Christian Klein obviously does not feel. He spends his days doing small-scale repair work. Working with commitment and forgetting the big picture - Klein is left without a strategy.

Since the beginning of this year, Christian Klein has been communicating in a completely confused manner and without any context. Always in the best of moods, he says whatever comes to mind, true to the motto: What do I care about last day's chatter?

Delivery plans are supposed to link customers and suppliers, increase efficiency and delivery reliability, and avoid bottlenecks due to the bullwhip effect. But in many cases, the plans cause more trouble than they benefit.

Should existing customers now believe SAP that cloud computing is very attractive: Faith belongs in the church and the cloud is a bad cloud cuckoo land. But a good foundation is the guarantee for success.

For SAP, customer satisfaction is a very important part of the business model. After all, the very first SAP system was developed on the customer's hardware. Since then, many ideas from users have found their way into SAP's ERP.

Officially, Christian Klein still believes in "cloud first" and hopes for "cloud only". Thousands of SAP's existing customers and his own experts know better: Cloud computing remains out of reach for ERP in the medium term.