I'm thinking either production or the warehouse still uses manual stamping of lot (or shipment) numbers with those auto-increment stamps... The number is then c

I'm thinking either production or the warehouse still uses manual stamping of lot (or shipment) numbers with those auto-increment stamps... The number is then captured by hand into a system somewhere. The system worked fine when production was X times smaller, but no attention has been paid to it since it was first designed.