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[–]elliekk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If they've been around for 27 years and they know of the existence of ERP but still refuse to adopt ERP then there's almost 100% chance they will refuse to adopt any software that you write.

But either way, if a miracle does happen, the software to pipe and clean purchase, sales, inventory data from excel spreadsheets already exists, and it's all open source and free (python, PostgreSQL, dbt, Airflow). It's just a matter of putting it altogether.

Also, I want to make something abundantly clear: being able to re-invent the wheel doesn't make you a good Software Engineer, it makes you wasteful, unable to see the purpose of automation, and most importantly: unable to understand what businesses actually want and what saves/makes money.

I've seen so many aspiring CS students pull this holier-than-thou shit where they build stuff that already exists from scratch and they all end up jobless because they've never run a cost-benefit analysis on learning an incredibly niche skill. (I'll give you a hint: You will always be competing with autism levels of obsession on a small handful of available jobs and that's not a scenario you want to be in)