SAP Rollout Brazil

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SAP Rollout Brazil goes wrong. The service provider has no experience in the specific regulatory requirements.

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00:00 - 00:03We are 4 weeks away from our SAP go-live for Sao Paulo.
00:04 - 00:05This is a site with production.
00:05 - 00:07We fully implement SAP FI/CO MM/SD.
00:08 - 00:12Our Indian provider will implement the Brazilian requirements.
00:12 - 00:15However, we just realized that we did not have the Nota fiscal and SPED reporting in the scope.
00:17 - 00:19We will just start with the UAT.
00:19 - 00:21We will just start with the UAT.
00:24 - 00:26UAT?
00:27 - 00:28That will....
00:31 - 00:33make no sense at all
00:34 - 00:36We cannot go live without the Brazilian requirements.
00:53 - 00:58Remaining in the room: FI/CO Consultant; MM/SD, the Process Owners and the Project lead.
01:13 - 01:15No Go-Live!?
01:15 - 01:17Are you fucking kidding me?
01:18 - 01:23Are you telling me you thought you could roll out SAP in Brazil without hiring a specialist?
01:25 - 01:28J1BTax, PIS, COFINS
01:29 - 01:31even Bloco K!
01:31 - 01:34How can you be so naive not to hire specialists here?
01:34 - 01:37Localization for Brazil is the most complex undertaking in SAP.
01:37 - 01:40Without experienced specialists who also speak Portuguese, you can forget it.
01:40 - 01:42But our global partner said he can do Brazil!
01:42 - 01:46Global partner for Brazil? Nonsense!
01:46 - 01:48How could we have known?
01:48 - 01:52By talking to someone who is actually there!
01:53 - 01:54Standard Rollout Approach?
01:56 - 01:57Just because you have implemented SAP in Germany and Asia,
01:57 - 02:00you think you can do it in Brazil without any problems?
02:00 - 02:03And do not even know the Tax Manager's Workplace for Brazil?
02:04 - 02:08SPED-ECD. SPED-EFD Reinf, COFINS....
02:08 - 02:13even DIRF. Do you have any idea, how complicated tax reporting actually is in Brazil?
02:14 - 02:16"In their own namespace and with a few Z transactions."?!?
02:17 - 02:21How stupid can you be!
02:27 - 02:29And we are not even on S/4 yet!
02:30 - 02:34We were so successful: Europe, Asia...
02:34 - 02:36...everywhere it works.
02:41 - 02:42But now Brazil
02:43 - 02:47will destroy the whole roadmap.
02:48 - 02:53But now I will stop this nonsense.
02:54 - 02:56I'm going to kick out the Big 4,
02:56 - 02:59our Indian consulting firm, and the legions of junior consultants.
03:00 - 03:02Now we'll get a real professional
03:04 - 03:07Calm down, SEFAZ doesn't know anything yet.
03:14 - 03:16No more Z transactions
03:19 - 03:23We will start from scratch
03:25 - 03:26Template first this time
03:31 - 03:33Fit-Gap at the beginning!
03:40 - 03:46But if you think we would try this again without a specialized consultant - you are very wrong.
03:46 - 03:49Then the Brazilians rather stay on Totvs.
03:53 - 03:56Tell the Steering Committee...