Inventory Management Cartoon: ERP vs Excel

The Scenario: In this inventory management cartoon, we see the fundamental lack of trust in "Enterprise" solutions.

A high-tech ERP dashboard displays perfectly aligned stock levels and colorful KPIs, yet right next to it, an employee is hunched over a manual Excel sheet.

The punchline—"ERP manages inventory. Excel vets it"—strikes at the heart of every supply chain professional who knows that no matter how much you spend on software, the "real" numbers only exist in a .xlsx file saved on someone's desktop.

The Observation: This narrative identifies the "Validation Gap" in digital transformation.

At Kaapi with Ravi, we observe that confidence isn't built by algorithms; it's built by the manual sanity check that happens just before the meeting starts.

This post highlights the humorous but exhausting reality that Excel remains the world’s most popular (and unofficial) supply chain system.

Inventory management: The expensive hobby of maintaining a multi-million dollar ERP system just to have something to export into Excel.

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• Series: Supply Chain Cartoons 

  
  

• Theme: Departmental Cartoons