South Africa’s Spar Loses Information Technology Chief After SAP Bungle
- Chief information technology executive Mark Huxtable resigned
- Spar spent 1.8 billion rand on SAP project that caused delays
Shopping carts stacked outside a Spar Group Ltd. supermarket in Pretoria, South Africa.
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Spar Group Ltd.’s chief information technology executive Mark Huxtable has resigned from the South African food and liquor retailer, not long after a rocky implementation of a 1.8 billion rand ($95 million) software system.
The move to the SAP software resulted in various integration and distribution issues that caused interruptions in stock deliveries to stores and lost sales. The SAP software project cost Spar about 786 million rand in lost first-half wholesale turnover. Operating profit fell 18% in the six months through March.