https://www.cio.com/article/1303774/sap-and-ibm-under-scanner-of-indian-investigative-agency-for-air-india-deal.html
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I like the tone of this post. No BS. Called it Ike you see it.
In a nutshell, what I am hearing is “how dare them brown people tell us what to do and how to do things? It’s our job to sell to them but give them no job and no say.”
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/pekka-ala-pietila-proposed-by-sap-supervisory-board-as-designated-successor-to-chairman-hasso-plattner-302059132.html
Renjen’s pipe dream is bu11$h1+ like most things on YouTube. As I type this, whole delivery teams from ASC in India are being repatriated back to Germany (of course) and Europe due to poor quality and low Voice-of-the Customer (VOC) KPI’s… which century, Punit?
The case will be out of media glare in 2 weeks time. The case will be dragged for 5-7 years in Indian courts and eventually will be dropped off with an internal settlement or a minor fine for the corporate parties (SAP and IBM). Nothing in the order of magnitude of $220M.
Now retired Indian bureaucrat (Air India Chief Managing Director) will get his pension cut and some light imprisonment or he will go scot free...
Oh dear.
How far we've fallen from the days of Klaus Hergersheimer.
Anyone else wondering if shifting headcount to India will line Renjen’s pockets via backroom brokering? Is that what happened at Deloitte?
“ The chargesheet is now filed against former Air India Chairman and Managing Director, Arvind Jadhav, IBM India, and SAP India, among six others under the IPC (Indian Penal Court) section 120-B (criminal conspiracy and provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act), after six years of investigation.”
Criminal conspiracy, corruption. Corruption charges — AGAIN — filed against SAP, when just last month SAP paid $220M in fines to the US SEC.
From the article:
“India’s premier investigating agency, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), has filed a charge sheet against former Air India Chief Managing Director, SAP India, and IBM India for alleged irregularities in acquiring an ERP solution by Air India in 2011.
CBI had registered the case based on the recommendations of the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC), which detected irregularities. As per a report by the Times of India, Air India opted for SAP and IBM’s ERP solution for $27 million (Rs 2,250 million) without going through a proper tendering process.
At the time, Air India was owned by the government and was required to get approval from the Civil Aviation Ministry for any major purchase. As per CVC, Air India failed to acquire this approval even though it made a presentation to the Group of Secretaries and Group of Ministers. Air India was taken over by the Tata Group in 2022.
The chargesheet is now filed against former Air India Chairman and Managing Director, Arvind Jadhav, IBM India, and SAP India, among six others under the IPC (Indian Penal Court) section 120-B (criminal conspiracy and provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act), after six years of investigation.
CVC has also alleged that Air India awarded the contract to SAP and IBM even when it was already using Oracle’s ERP. SAP and IBM did not respond to the questionnaire shared with them on this development at the time of publishing.“