Exactly.  When I started at my company we did monthly inventories of our warehouse on paper, had people transcribe that to excel files, then try to reconcile counts to records.  There were two people working on this (both fat) and they would save local copies of the spreadsheet, work on their sections individually, then meet later to combine their work into one sheet.  It was slow, clunky, and prone to so many errors and mis-copied data that it was little better than chance. So I wrote web software from scratch that lets us do all of our counts digitally, we've been able to reduce our inventory counts to quarterly instead of monthly, there are no issues with transcription, no paper or spreadsheets necessary.  I've tried to teach others how to manage the software, but the two tubbos who used to run the inventory can't/won't learn the extremely simple interface and I'm stuck as the only one who knows how to handle the whole process. The company even invested in proper CRM software and warehouse management tools.  It comes with inventory count functionality.  They still like mine better. I'm in the market for a new job, so I hope for this company's sake that someone will step up and either take over the project or go with new software.  If not, they're in for quite a difficult time, because I know those greaster eggs won't be able to keep up.