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Why operational knowledge shouldn’t live in a Spreadsheet
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Most manufacturing companies have at least one spreadsheet they would struggle to live without. You know the one. Perhaps it schedules production. Perhaps it allocates inventory. Perhaps it helps determine which orders get prioritized when capacity becomes constrained. Whatever its purpose, someone in the organization built it years ago, and over time it became an essential part of the business. To be fair, that's not necessarily a bad thing.