A plant manager I spoke with last year had the same story I've heard a dozen times. Inventory accuracy sitting around 74%. Excess stock piling up in rack locations nobody was reviewing. Production line stoppages because the system said a component was on hand and it wasn't. His IT team was pushing for a new ERP. His CFO was pushing back. Meanwhile, the warehouse kept running the same broken cycle count process it had been running for three years. The problem wasn't the softwa