ERP software is notorious for doing this. Many a growing company has found itself forced to change its business processes to align with the SAP way of doing th

ERP software is notorious for doing this. Many a growing company has found itself forced to change its business processes to align with the SAP way of doing things, instead of the other way around. At the top end of the scale, companies are large enough to write custom software. At the bottom end of the scale, you can't yet justify buying software, so a lot of processes are still done manually. It's in the middle that you tend to get squeezed. You're too big to do things on paper, but you don't have the in-house development talent to customize the software to fit your needs.