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2026: Dismissal of employees and cancellation of ERP system development
The largest Russian car dealer Rolf actually abandoned plans to create its own ERP system and significantly reduced the staff of the Rolf Tech IT company. This became known to ComNews in March 2026.
According to the portal's sources, almost all developers left the company, including the director of Rolf Tech. In May 2025, Denis Levchenko, director of the Rolf Department of Mobile Technologies and Digital Transformation, also left, who in an interview with ComNews in mid-2024 was optimistic about a bold project to create a boxed ERP solution by internal development for subsequent sale to competitors.
A ComNews source close to Rolf's IT team said the crisis began in early 2025 with the appointment of HR director Olga Balitskaya, who had no experience in development but seeks to speed up the introduction of her own product. After the departure of Denis Levchenko, the team broke up, development finally stopped by the fall of 2025.
The press service of Rolf said that the development has been transformed: the Flora platform has become key - an internal business process management system that combines sales, service, logistics, document management and analytics. Flora is already operating in several locations, by the end of 2026 it will be scaled up to all divisions.
Other corporations also have difficulties creating their own ERP. Severgroup CEO Alexei Mordashov admitted that the project with Sibur turned out to be more expensive than expected. Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin called on business to a consortium instead of disparate decisions.
The CTO of Business Technology"" Alexander Russkikh noted the illusion of rapid development among companies with customization experience. The general director of "" Grintech Sergey Smirnykh added that ERP is a vendor-level project that is not core for most companies. Commercial director Roxit Anton Kolosov stressed that such projects go beyond the deadlines and budgets due to a lack of competencies and scale.[1]
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