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Lidl is wasting 500 million euros

Because the introduction of a new data system did not work out, Deutsche Post already had to record a high loss several years ago. The same thing happened to Lidl. After seven years and costs of more than half a billion euros, the planned system is still not running smoothly. Now the discounter has pulled the ripcord.

Lidl has been on an expansion course for years. The discount store from Neckarsulm now has branches in almost every country in Europe and is now also growing in the USA. A new merchandise management system was needed to easily keep track of the increasingly complex business processes and to control branches, purchasing and logistics. Therefor the decision in 2011.

System is not good for high-turnover countries

Software from the Walldorf-based software company SAP was to be adapted to the needs of Lidl. So far, however, the new system has only been introduced in some small agencies in Austria, Northern Ireland and the USA. It has been shown that the SAP version developed by over one hundred IT specialists is not suitable for high-turnover countries. Now Lidl has stopped the project. In one of the newspaper "Heilbronner Stimme" present letter to the coworkers it is said that the actual "goals" are "not reachable with justifiable effort". So far, according to expert opinion, the project has consumed more than half a billion euros - for expensive IT consultants and SAP licenses, for example. Now Lidl wants to further develop its own inventory management system.