[crispyambulance]

I mostly agree. However "out-of-box solutions" often ALSO means "one-size-fits-all".

There's flexibility in ERP's, for sure, but it's not necessarily accessible to the people that use it.

I once had to implement a "screen" to physically divert a list of devices with certain serial numbers. Basically: send a notification whenever one of these devices showed up at a loading dock.

The most logical way to do it, which I naively considered first, was to set-up something in one of the ERP modules which is specifically focused on "material movement". After some tedious email exchanges and a phone call it turned out that it was, in fact, "possible". The catch was that it would take WEEKS and involve an expensive Oracle consultant requisition.

I put an end to that and instead had a junior implement the solution in a downstream application (which we actually develop, own and control), in about an hour. It was worth it even though it meant the stuff left the loading dock and ingressed into the building, requiring some additional physical "moving-around" hassles.