Complexity sold as a feature

"Over 5,000 configuration options."

Translation: you will spend 18 months setting it up.

Most businesses use about 20 of them.

Enterprise ERP vendors love feature counts.

Multi-currency support for your domestic operation.

AI-powered forecasting for your stable demand.

Blockchain traceability for your 200 SKUs.

Features nobody asked for. Nobody uses. Nobody understands.

But they are great for sales decks.

Meanwhile, the things you actually need:

Clear inventory levels.

Fast order processing.

Simple reporting.

Those take a back seat to "innovation".

The worst outcome:

One person in your company understands the system.

They configured everything. They know the workarounds.

When they leave, chaos.

Simple systems do not create single points of failure.

Complicated ones do.

The best ERP is the one your team actually uses.