I think your comment trivialises what ERP does. Analytics is trivial compared to standardizing processes. I like that when I create a BOM and routing I can be

I think your comment trivialises what ERP does. Analytics is trivial compared to standardizing processes. I like that when I create a BOM and routing I can be sure that all the inventory created using it will have the correct cost absorbed, and I can prove it to my auditor so I don't get a qualified audit, and a SOX violation and lose my company. You can't do that in a spreadsheet. I like the way I can have hundreds of people involved, I can have hundreds of sales orders, hundreds of production orders, hundreds of picks, hundreds of goods receipts, hundreds of purchase orders from hundreds of suppliers, entered by hundreds of people, and yet I still know my stock level and value, my back orders, my revenue to a very high degree of certainty. And I can audit every one. You must be much better at Excel than I am if you can ensure consistency with multiple users and millions of rows? ERPs track inventory, and orders very well. They don't need pretty graphs to do that.