Products · Broad category
ERP systems
Raised as a usability problem by 14 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2011–2026), in 15 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with ERP systems, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 14 complaints
- Error messages don't show whether the processing actually happened2026-07-12
- Employees struggle to load reports or do simple tasks, too slow and complicated2026-03-05
- Chatbot used in place of a logical, navigable interface, forcing slower, less predictable interaction2025-08-05
- Mobile experience of existing ERP systems is basically unusable2025-07-21
- Enterprise ERP interfaces feel poor to use and are a chore to work in all day2024-05-06
- ERP systems have horrible UIs that are hard to work with2021-07-20
- Workplace ERP software is cumbersome to use2020-11-01
- Awful interface that new users must memorize shortcuts and quirks to use2020-07-09
- Searching about 100k inventory items takes roughly 15 seconds, which users tolerate2020-02-19
- Three client UIs are each undiscoverable and inconsistent, so knowledge doesn't transfer2020-02-05
- Complex forms require tabbing through a dozen or more fields, which is tedious2019-12-19
- Employees complain about ERP software and users get no good experience2018-06-20
- Enterprise ERP systems are slow and unintuitive to use2018-06-05
- Paper-based QC routine with no records of completed or remaining tasks2011-09-08