Technology
- When a spreadsheet stops being enough for a growing dealer business
Spreadsheets serve a small dealership well, then start to cause errors and delays. How to tell when it has happened and what to do about it.
- One missing formula can empty three stores: the risk of running stock on spreadsheets
A spreadsheet that runs stock for several stores can fail silently at the worst moment. What a single error costs, why it goes unnoticed, and how to control the risk.
- Five pieces of software that disagree: the cost of systems that do not talk to each other
When sales, stock, billing and dealers each live in a different tool, someone re-types everything. What it costs, why it persists, and how to bring it under control.