JDE to SAP in 11 Months: Live Interview with Gore's Program Leader

If you're running JD Edwards, NetSuite, Dynamics, or Infor and the board is asking about SAP, this one is for you. Tom McKee, Enterprise Transformation Leader at W. L. Gore & Associates, led the program that replaced JD Edwards with SAP S/4HANA in 11 months: 9 plants, 3 countries, 5 time zones, every module live in one cutover weekend. On Wednesday May 6, at 10:00 AM ET, Tom will answer questions in a 60-minute interview. Dominik Karosser, CEO of CONSILIO Consulting America, will close with notes on methodology. The interview covers the questions CTOs ask each other offline: • Why SAP over Oracle Cloud ERP, Dynamics 365, Infor CloudSuite, or modernizing JDE in place? • The real 3-year TCO, stabilization and change orders included, versus the business case that got approved. • Which plants missed their 12-month productivity targets, and what did they have in common? • Where did Gore's private, flat-lattice structure make this easier, and what survives translation to a hierarchical public or PE-owned manufacturer? • What would Tom do differently today with AI-assisted build and clean core on the table? Tom has agreed to take hostile questions live. Bring yours. Every registrant receives the Replacement Decision Guide, a scoring tool for evaluating whether your legacy ERP is a replacement candidate.