@Steen
Hi Austin. A sad day, indeed, and my condolences to you for what you’re experiencing. It probably isn’t much consolation to you, but please know that there have been worse cases. A previous employer spent over 7 years (and anyone’s guess how much $$$$$$$) on trying to implement Epicor 8/9, customizing it to make it work like their existing implementation of Manage2000, which itself also had been customized to work like their preceding ERP and still was being customized at the same time as Epicor 8/9. Ultimately, the company faced a decision between restarting the implementation with the “new” Epicor 10 or switching to another ERP system. Epicor lost!
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…regardless of platform…
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Geepers, at that rate might as well make their own ERP.
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I feel like a lot of the failures are actually because they are trying to do just that. Instead of embracing the norms of the software and adjusting their business, they try to manhandle the software to do it the way they’ve always done it, thus making their own.
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I think I see the problem here.
Edit: ninja’d by @Banderson a worthy ninja to get had by though
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Our last two ERP platforms ran on IBMi or iSeries or SystemI or AS400 or any one of its other names…thanks for making me chuckle today.
EDITS…we had a model F45 originally (ours was a single cabinet, only pic I could find is a double)…then migrated to a model 270…
“Yesterday…all my troubles seemed so far away…now it looks as though they’re here to stay…oh, I believe in yesterday.” 
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He wouldn’t be the first to leave the list to do so…
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That’s precisely what I said at the time. I’m sure that the in-house staff of programmers would have loved that… even more job security than customizing someone else’s programming! But alas, that wasn’t the path taken!
I’m pretty sure this is how we got every ERP made in the last 50+ years. First came a few mainframe attempts from folks like IBM. Then,
“All five ERP options are awful! I know, I’ll make my own from scratch.”
And then we had six awful ERP options. Rinse, repeat…
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Memory Lane…
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That is how we got here. The people that started DCD had a metal stamping company. All the other local companies wanted to buy their software. They said we can make more money selling the software and so a new ERP was born.
And the that is how we ended up with the field called DCDUserid.
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What can I say there were a few projects just left of the floor at that place.
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Yep been on one of those journeys… Epicor still lives !
That nailed it exactly @Banderson I agree 100% the old “This is how we always have done it” and “That doesn’t work like our old system”
I wish I got a dollar for every time I heard that. I’d be living on a beach somewhere by now!
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The operative term is “resistant to change”…and without the willingness of the user community to do so, you’re fighting a losing battle.
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I would like to share a simple graphic I have used when approaching a project from adding a module to a entire system upgrade as one of the tools I use to manage it.
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