How to use Replit Agent to prototype an ERP

Raj Badarinath reported building a manufacturing ERP prototype with Replit Agent in two hours. He asked for business capabilities rather than manually assembling every screen and data operation, then shared a link to the resulting demonstration.

The account describes inventory locations and lot or serial control, procurement with purchase orders and vendor management, production work orders and capacity planning. A request for an MRP engine produced material requirements planning that included bill-of-materials expansion, lead-time offsets and capacity checks. These are the author's reported prototype capabilities, not independently audited manufacturing behavior.

When problems appeared, Badarinath asked the agent to review its own code, identify issues and implement corrections. That kept the agent involved after the initial generation instead of treating the first output as finished.

The limitations are concrete. The database needed normalization and indexing work, high transaction volumes required optimization, concurrent-user handling remained incomplete, and the code contained redundant modules, stubs and integration points needing hardening. The useful result was a working demonstration for exploring requirements. The author repeatedly distinguished that achievement from production readiness; the account supplies no evidence of deployment as an operational factory system.

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Source: Substack · Raj Badarinath