Re:What's SAP, and why's it worth $163B? (2020)
by ThePadawan on Friday September 09, 2022 @04:57AM
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Not SAP, but ERP developer here. The project I worked on included a logistics module which stock-keeping and accounting.
When you tell a warehouse worker to pick up an iPhone from row A4-143-X and it's not there, you need to figure out why. So yes, doing the accounting for that involved a "status" flag to figure out what happened. If another iPhone is later found in A5-143-X, great.
If not, at the end of the year you do the math how much stock dissappears "for unknown reasons" and you have your number on "possibly employee theft". To balance the books you can't just put an amount and "IDK what happened to it".
When you tell a warehouse worker to pick up an iPhone from row A4-143-X and it's not there, you need to figure out why. So yes, doing the accounting for that involved a "status" flag to figure out what happened. If another iPhone is later found in A5-143-X, great.
If not, at the end of the year you do the math how much stock dissappears "for unknown reasons" and you have your number on "possibly employee theft". To balance the books you can't just put an amount and "IDK what happened to it".