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Because you can either do it with excel spreadsheets or insanely expensive PDM/ERP software like SAP which is insanely expensive to setup and anyone who has eve
by iancmceachern 3y ago
Because you can either do it with excel spreadsheets or insanely expensive PDM/ERP software like SAP which is insanely expensive to setup and anyone who has ever used it will tell you is terrible. There used to be middle road options like netsuite but they were bought by SAP. There are alsoneays to do it in Catia, etc like the airplane folks do, but that's also insanely expensive.
People are now using airtable to do it
- jasonwatkinspdx 3y agoI once met a systems integrator that specialized in SAP. His standard billing rate was $7k per hour. This was 20 years ago too. Doing anything with SAP at scale is insanely expensive, and it's hard not to conclude it's by design in the sense of misaligned incentives.
- Asraelite 3y agoPDM, ERP, SAP, WBS, COTS, WMS, CRDT. I have no idea what anybody's talking about. I need that Reddit bot which explains the acronyms in a thread.
- 486sx33 3y agoPDM = product data management ERP = enterprise resource planning SAP = The name is an initialism of the company’s original German name: Systemanalyse Programmentwicklung, which translates to System Analysis Program Development. WBS = work breakdown structure COTS = commercial off the shelf WMS = warehouse management system CRDT = Conflict-free Replicated Data Type Some of these acronyms are quite old, but continue to be used as they make sense to the people in those spaces.