How is it possible that for a large, multinational corporation to not even have the basic tools to keep track of inventory or payroll? Is it too much to ask to have a person who understands how to design relational databases to keep track of company inventory? Or for someone to know Excel to design spreadsheets that are actually usable? How about knowing more than just the SUM function in Excel? After installing a POS, why isn't there somebody who can work with the underlying databases in the POS to import/export data? Or by golly, create queries to gain insights of the performance of the underlying business?
It's not even like you even have to hire a guy full time. They can get a contractor in to do all the stuff and then fire his sorry ass. These things are all basically "set it and forget it"; they just need one template before it can be disseminated to the rest of regions. This is either gross incompetence and misallocation of resources, or severe internal communication problems.
Please don't tell me most businesses are like this.
Oh, and is it just me or are most business software junk? I'm looking at you SAP and IBM. Frigging monkeys could design more intuitive and ease of use GUIs.
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About Me
- p51dray
- I am a FSA with a BSc in actuarial science from SFU and a former PoMo IB slave who is working towards his FCAS; hence I must be a masochistic exam lover.
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