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It's finally come down to it, I've been asked to work towards finalizing some master data within our business management software. Just a few small tunings and tweakings that would allow me to eventually hand over control of the standard week-to-week shop supply PO creation to the system. Granted, these are basic POs that use reorder point based planning... once the quantity of material X reaches a certain level, the system generates a requisition. This material's rounding value, source vendor and delivery lead times have all been preprogrammed into the requisition creation by myself, so there's not too much there that needs human interaction anymore. Turning it over to the system wouldn't be a big deal, except that since most of the work is already done for me, it only takes me less than a minute to cut a PO for most of these items. So is my saving 5 minutes a day really worth running the risk of not catching a problem if (and when) one happens? I'll always have full manual control over our key raw materials, the stuff we need to keep production up... so big deal if the system messes up and we run out of duct tape for 36 hours, right? I can't help but be worried.
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