This is right. You always have to argue the business case to management. If you can turn X into a factor of cost, you can sell a lot of things. Even if you thin

This is right. You always have to argue the business case to management. If you can turn X into a factor of cost, you can sell a lot of things. Even if you think the benefits are obvious to every party involved, you'll still need to stick a dollar value on there. I just recently joined a strategic team to make an improvement that literally everyone knows is a problem, but one of our first things to do is quantify so we can determine the ROI for our efforts.