Implementation of SAP is 5-7 times the cost of the software. In a Fortune 1000 size company, upwards of $100M to implement.
The guy I was talking about had spent $250K for a 100 person company. And that was only on consultants, not the full implementation cost.
But the REAL costs of SAP are often hidden. Our customers are being forced to renumber ALL of their parts - with a nine or ten digit number. Drawings, instead of defining the part, are an attribute of the part, with another document doing the actual definition. Drawing revision and part revision are no longer the same - or even linked. Either one can change without the other changing - which means the part "definition" must be researched EVERY time a part is made to insure the definition has not changed.
SAP sucks.