Operations

Production and operations systems: modelling a physical process in software, and what happens when the model and the floor disagree.

Most of this comes out of RPOMS.

Common Problems in Manual Production Tracking With Spreadsheets

The specific ways spreadsheet-based production tracking breaks down in practice, beyond the general advice to use better software.

Spreadsheets work until a production line grows past what one shared file can honestly track. Here's where that line usually gets crossed.

A plain explanation of what production management software actually does, and why it's a different problem from a generic business app.