Comment by InMice
This comment doesnt deserve the downvotes its getting. If you ever work in an ERP system you will realize the complexity of tracking cost, inventory management (which is not just simple item, location quantity), purchasing, quotes, lead times, approval processes, BOM data structure, assembly, work orders, sales orders internal/external, etc etc. All these may boil down to basic cost account primitives but making a system that is a ledger then dismissing other solutions and saying you could manage the project of constructing an aircraft carrier make you wonder if the author has ever touched an ERP frontend or back. On top of that there are open source ERP and other smaller companies that make proprietary ERP that do not do some of the things intuit may do draw the ire of some.
I agree. Although do you think ERP as a discipline is actually successful in solving these kind of problems? It seems to be a field dogged by underperforming or failed systems.