Legacy ERP With No API Forces Manual Data Entry Bottleneck
A food manufacturing business relies on an old custom ERP system with no API, running on a Windows Server 2012 box, forcing an admin assistant to manually input invoices and client orders. As the business grows, this manual data entry has become a bottleneck, and the team faces internal resistance to changing tools despite needing automation.
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