Most distributors don't decide to outgrow their inventory software. They just notice, one bad week at a time, that the system stops keeping up - a pick error here, a stock count that doesn't match reality there, until it's happening often enough that everyone's stopped being surprised by it. That's usually the point where the real question stops being "how do we fix this" and starts being "do we need a different kind of system entirely." For growing distribution businesses,

Fear of migration is the number one reason companies stay on an ERP that isn't working for them anymore. The current system is frustrating, but at least the frustration is familiar. Switching feels like trading a known problem for an unknown one, and nobody wants to be the person who signed off on a migration that went badly. Most of that fear comes from not knowing where the real costs actually sit - and once you know, migration risk stops being a mystery and starts being s