Yes. I worked on the warehousing developer team for a mid sized UK retailer (£75 million) and they had a home grown ERP system and it was a competitive advantag

Yes. I worked on the warehousing developer team for a mid sized UK retailer (£75 million) and they had a home grown ERP system and it was a competitive advantage. It wasn’t perfect, the business makes trade offs, they see expensive coddled devs who are basically a cost center BUT they get total control over what gets built and can align very well with business strategy. Support is the biggest pit fall. All software has bugs, all software requires maintenance, never let speed of delivery happen at the cost of sensible levels of quality or you will suffer greatly with support requests which your devs will spend their time fixing. Since it’s in house hire people who value stability over sexy new tech. You don’t want bleeding edge JS frameworks, you want tried, tested and boring. It doesn’t need to be a big React app, Ruby would be fine, a nice boring relational database would be great. Functional, reliable and stable is the order of the day. Start with a small project as a test run and build up from there. Oh and read The Phoenix Project, it’s an excellent fiction book about modern software delivery and the impact it can have on a business just like this. Aside from having some good lessons it’s also just a good read.