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ERP failures can be mega
ERP failures do not come more impressive than that of the US Department of Defense (DoD).
According to the "What We found" paragraph of their July 13, 2021 Audit Report:
"The six ERP systems experienced cost increases of $8.0 billion and schedule delays ranging from 1.5 to 12.5 years during system development and implementation. As a result of the schedule delays, DoD will continue using outdated legacy systems and diminish the estimated savings associated with transforming business operations through business system modernization. In addition, the impact of schedule delays increases the risk that DoD will not achieve an auditable Statement of Budgetary Resources by FY 2014 or accomplish its goal of full financial statement audit readiness by FY 2017.
$8 billion was about the GDP of Malta*. Now that's an overrun. * In 2010 according to UN estimates.