[russb]

It's been said before: you don't customize SAP to fit your company, you customize your company to fit SAP.

"We held firm to the NO CUSTOMIZATION rule, we re-engineered our processes to fit SAP. Other than a few hiccups when integrating all aspects of a company that has 100 sub companies, and is under federal, state and local regulation the project basically went off without a hitch." [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17541092#17542500