Coming back for more
13 September 2012
Suppliers of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems have been slow to make the transition to life in the e-world. In the first of two articles, Malcolm Wheatley reports on how they are making a comeback and why supply chain management is a key battleg
With an imposing portrait of co-founders Hasso Plattner and Dietmar Hopp on its cover, the 3 November 1997 issue of BusinessWeek paid lavish tribute to the German enterprise software giant SAP. Plattner and Hopp, it gushed, had driven SAP to global dominance by developing powerful enterprise-wide software systems that could run every aspect of a business, from order-...