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A good ERP system is totally possible. You just have to hire a SWE team to custom make one for you and then fulltime maintain it.
by quartesixte 4y ago
A good ERP system is totally possible.
You just have to hire a SWE team to custom make one for you and then fulltime maintain it.
- hef19898 4y agoWhich is the best, and most expensive, way to never have a working, let alone acceptable not to speak of good, ERP.
- PeterisP 4y agoA custom ERP can work well for a company that stays mostly the same, however, at the size where you can afford a SWE team to build a custom ERP that is not a reasonable assumption - you will be getting many merger&acquisition events, so if you're not using an industry-standard ERP, then pretty much all the time you'll have ongoing migrations of acquired divisions/overseas branches/etc from "their ERP" to your custom one (as well as having to run these other ERPs for many months in parallel while you manage these migrations, and still need to do consolidated reporting while its happening) as well as this custom ERP causing you to take a discount when spinning off or selling parts of your corporation (or all of it). If you're running the same ERP as almost everyone else in your industry (e.g. SAP) then this compatibility enables much less friction and cost in M&A. Companies and lines of business aren't eternal, they merge and split, and it's a big question whether the investment for a custom ERP will pay back over its inevitably limited lifetime, including the migration to it and afterwards from it.