>Perhaps one of the differences is what we are mainly in retail, warehousing and logistics You nailed it. At a previous firm (when I was in charge of ERP as we

>Perhaps one of the differences is what we are mainly in retail, warehousing and logistics You nailed it. At a previous firm (when I was in charge of ERP as well) we took over these kind of firms and moved them into our ERP either immediately or after a few weeks. Manufacturing is orders of magnitude more complex. BOMS, Routings, all the raw and intermediate level skus, interfacing with the shop floor equipment. The much more complex accounts, many more people to train in more specialisms. MRP is so much more complex, planning is more complex. Then with our 1000s of business units... the Politics is so much more complex too