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Durham IT outlines SAP replacement plan; county to issue ERP RFP with 2029 end-of-support deadline in view

3402433 · May 20, 2025
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Summary

IT reported the county has issued an ERP RFP to replace its legacy SAP system; staff said the effort will be multi-year and requires additional program staff to manage risk and integrate finance, HR and procurement functions.

Durham County's information-technology leadership told the Board on May 13 that the county has launched a request-for-proposals for a modern enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform to replace its aging SAP instance and that the RFP closes June 3.

Chief information officer Greg Marrow described the ERP replacement as a multi-departmental transformation that will touch finance, human resources, procurement, payroll and budgeting. Marrow said the county's current SAP edition dates to the mid-2000s and that SAP is moving customers to newer platforms; vendors and the industry broadly view ERP migrations as complex, long-duration projects…

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