I don’t know other ERP systems, and doing traces in Epicor can be a slog, but as a die-hard low-coder, I am really happy with all that I am able to do, especially since Functions came along. I have done several integrations by myself (with lots of research on this site, of course), and that’s really saying something.
With no outside help and no inside help, I have done the following with low-coding in the last two years:
- Get an ecommerce store integration running (I did the Epicor part; the store is run by someone else); it’s been taking large real orders for almost a year now
- Created a time entry app with Power Apps and Power Automate that we use every day here (it creates real labor entries in Epicor)
- Tulip integration, pulling job BOM info to the production floor and marking ops as complete
- Working on this BPM right now
- And various other projects
I mean, that’s pretty cool.
Ha, you know, the funny thing is, the one and only thing we actually had to outsource in the last four years was a customized SSRS AR Invoice form. THAT was the one thing I couldn’t handle. Ugh that form is just awful. To your point, though, I could make what we needed myself from scratch, but it just would not have been THE ARForm that comes up when you do Print Invoice(s) in the Actions menu.
Edit: I can’t read, retraction in later post.
Agreed. We were multi-tenant SaaS (which is no longer available for new customers, I hear) when we first launched and it was AWFUL. Crippling problems every week. We outgrew their horsepower in a few months after going live. Could not convince Support that MRP was failing at EXACTLY 9 hours every time, as if there was some web config setting that was stopping it (ahem). So frustrating to know the problem and not be able to fix it.