British retailer Asda admits tech divorce from former owner Walmart has been delayed again
Asda, the UK's third largest retailer, discovered a multi-million pound discrepancy between its distribution system and SAP ERP tech installed earlier this year, according to an internal Major Incident report seen byAsda migrated from the legacy SAP system run by former owner Walmart to a new instance of S/4HANA, hosted in the Microsoft Azure cloud, following a deal announced in December 2021.
The report warns the issue could"potentially lead to the delay of the publication of validated financial information and increase the risk of dysfunctional commercial decision-making alongside a delay Asda's consolidation of group-wide financial results." It is understood that Asda runs a reconciliation task between its stock holding in depots and its invoicing records in finance as a"business-as-usual process."
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