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> developed on a system that isn't designed to intuitively express the degree of logic required

The poor souls are such because they usually fundamentally do not have the knowledge required across the broad spectrum of responsibilities an ERP does and how that all ties into managing a business.

> I predict that millennials, who increasingly refuse to interact with anything below "app quality,"

This makes no sense. What do millennials have to do with anything? I fail to see how a generation label makes any difference to how ERPs are involved in business management and how accounting and finance in general work. How supply chains are managed isn't going to change because of a bunch of woke millennials.

> everyone will build their own faulty but usable ERP systems.

Always said by people that do not understand what an ERP does and the complexities involved in managing a business. I used to think this way myself, until I actually had to deal with these issues in a senior management position with investors breathing down my neck. My naivety was amusing in hindsight.




> How supply chains are managed isn't going to change because of a bunch of woke millennials.

Parent's point was that systems require trained and capable people.

If the job entails dealing with something arcane, and you can't pay more (because cost center), then at some point you face a labor gap.


I can't see this happening any more than mechanics influencing how engines are designed. It sounds nice to rah-rah-rah the revolution, but ERPs are the dark underbelly of business are not going away any time soon while we depend on the 3 statement model.




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