I agree with Rich Wargo's comment that SAP sucks the life out of it's customers. As an employee that uses this program, I've been saying for some time that it sucks the life out of me because it is extremely slow, has too many flaws, and customers have to wait for long periods. In my company everyone hates it, complains about it, has health issues because of it, has retired early, or plain just quit the company. I can't leave. I have 24 years plus. I'm trapped and feel like I'm dying a slow death because of this program. I really wish I could win the lottery and have a little peace and joy before I die.

I have yet to hear of an SAP installation that has been finalized and no longer needs a 12-man team to babysit it.
On the other hand, I have heard plenty of instances where SAP consultants were bought on site, only to know less than the IT guys of the company doing the calling.
There may well be competent SAP consultants somewhere, but there is obviously not enough of them to make a difference.
SAP is a remora company - it targets the big income entities and latches on like to feed off of the revenue generated.
Sure, it might have some use, but frankly I doubt that that goes beyond making a few slides for presenting to the Board.

SAP sucks. Bottom line from someone who has seen more than one SAP installation suck the life out of a viable company. You pays gobs of money, get very little, then have to pay gobs more just to get it to function in a primitive fashion.

Any company that goes with SAP DESERVES to go under. Obviously their executives can't figure out how to pull their heads out of a paper sack.