Why do people keep deploying SAP? Why, those wily Germans could sell baggy pants in Williamsburg, they could.
It was touch and go there for a while. Several of my friends ended up dropping out of their volunteer activities and personal lives to put in a lot of extra hours at work. It wasn’t pretty.
It looks like they actually had a 54 part number gap. If they couldn’t get their real records of those 54 part numbers to import correctly, what are the odds they could fake 54 dummy part numbers in the right places to make everything sync up again? And why input dummy data into your production system? If the old records were incomplete/crappy enough that they don’t pass the data validation to be imported into the new system then you’re probably better off without them.
Your attitude fairly closely reflects mine. When importing our data during our conversion we had tons of materials fall out because they didn’t have data that we’d consider immaterial to the record but that SAP just HAD TO HAVE, it was a REQUIRED FIELD. Of course it was only required because some developer at some point had wanted it to be, and therefore it became the mold that every other SAP customer forever had to be forced into, but hey…
You may have done your job a little too well actually. SONIC has worked “good enough” for decades and most of the people who really understand it have moved on. So when it came time to sunset SONIC it was basically impossible. No one knew how it worked or why it did what it did. We’d spend days tracing the root cause of order failures or have to call in retired people to help us figure things out. They loved that. I would too. Coming back as a consultant at 5x the rate I used to work for is the dream that keeps me going today.
Enjoy,
Steven
The OPs numbering system unfortunately fails to account for the number wisserteen, an important concept in engineering.