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Frequent mergers and acquisitions of multinational enterprises, SAP consulting industry is very positive

SAP Consulting has been in China for nearly 30 years. Through the joint efforts of many colleagues in China's consulting industry, basically, many branches of the Fortune 500 in China, leading enterprises in various industries, including central enterprises, state-owned enterprises and private enterprises, have launched the products of many well-known ERP manufacturers at home and abroad in the process of building their respective information platforms. The products of the two giants of SAP,Oracle, such as SAP and EBS, occupy the monopoly share of the industry, especially the SAP software system. It can be said that the world's top 500, China's top 500, almost all are SAP customers.

With regard to the current situation of domestic enterprises implementing SAP software system, we can say that enterprises with sufficient financial strength to implement SAP software system have basically implemented it; because of the urgent need to improve their management level, enterprises that implement SAP software system have basically implemented it; at the request of the headquarters of multinational enterprises in Europe and America, enterprises that implement SAP software system have basically implemented it. Enterprises that originally did not intend to invest heavily in the implementation of the SAP system need to show a high-end image in front of their partners and customers. Some giants that have long implemented SAP software systems, with the implementation of the software system version is too low, or business expansion is changing too fast, need to upgrade the SAP software system, many also continue to invest a lot of money to re-implement the new version of the SAP software system. The author also found that many enterprises that implement SAP software system are no longer large enterprise head enterprises Tuhao enterprises, but small enterprises with small scale and low profit level. The amount of money invested by some small enterprises to implement the SAP software system for many reasons, the consulting fee has been as low as 1 million, or even about 500000.

The current situation of the industry is cruel, enterprises that need to implement SAP system are gradually becoming low-end, miniaturized, civilian and diaosi, and the use of SAP system is no longer the patent of high-end enterprises. As a practitioner, the result is that there are fewer and fewer opportunities for good SAP projects, and they can only do some difficult upgrade and optimization projects, or small business SAP implementation projects. These projects are characterized by a very tight budget, a very short cycle, a lot of customer requirements, and increasing challenges. Practitioners, both companies and individuals, are very difficult and extremely difficult to do. It takes more effort than before, but you can only earn less money.

SAP consulting practitioners, in the face of the current consulting market, some people choose to change their careers because they cannot accept it, either leave Party B to go ashore to become Party A, or completely leave the SAP consulting industry; some still choose to stay and continue to work in this industry. The author also intends to continue to stick to the position in the SAP consulting industry and contribute to the cause of SAP consulting. So the author is very concerned about the future of this industry, and is very concerned about new opportunities, especially those good SAP project opportunities.

The author finds that the frequent acquisition and reorganization among multinational enterprises is very good for the SAP consulting industry and can create many new SAP opportunities. A few years ago, the author did a project in which the customer had just acquired several factories, so he started the SAP promotion project for these factories. The project I am doing now is also a newly created SAP promotion opportunity due to the acquisition behavior of multinational giants. Customer K Company's factory, which used to be a manufacturing plant of the industry giant in China, has long implemented the SAP system. It was acquired by another Fortune 500 giant in the same industry two years ago, so the new owner soon launched a SAP promotion project to extend his SAP global template to this factory. In other words, the same manufacturing plant will start the implementation project of the SAP system many times because of the merger. For the factory, this is a repetitive IT investment, but because the owner has changed, it is impossible to always use the old employer's SAP software system to support business operations, and it is also an IT investment. If the factory is sold to another industry giant in a few years, it is likely to start a new SAP implementation project again.

Due to the contraction or expansion of business structure, capital operation, changes in the market situation and other reasons, mergers and acquisitions among multinational giants that have already implemented the SAP system are very frequent. A large part of these mergers and acquisitions will involve branches in China and Asia, which naturally create a large number of high-quality SAP project opportunities for many colleagues in the SAP consulting industry, including the author. The SAP project opportunities of multinational giants often have several characteristics that the author likes: a loose budget, often a factory SAP promotion project budget of tens of millions of yuan; a long cycle, as short as half a year, as long as more than a year; work pressure is not great, because there is already a mature and perfect global template, localization of secondary development is strictly limited or even 0. To be able to participate in such a project is naturally something that every colleague in the industry is trying to fight for.

The author sincerely calls for the M & An of multinational enterprises to come more violently.

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2020-3-30 was written in Suzhou.

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