Hello everyone, this is my first post on MA.
A little background, I graduated this year with a BSc in CS & Psy and have been wanting to get into the IT industry since. But with no IT experience this is going to be tough. I have wanted to be a systems analyst for many years now so I am growing more hungry by the month.
I am currently an administrator, not the IT kind but for a factory production office. The actual factory I work in has quite a large turnover spending over 200k a year just to cool it's production department let alone the cost of raw meat, labour, packaging etc. What concerns me is that the entire planning department is ran using excel spreadsheets, one in particular of 10mb in size full of open formulas. Extremely slow, manual and tedious it's a very big bottlekneck is productivity for us. The production lines and despatch are controlled by FOPS by Hellenic V6, and the support staff use SAP for finance, purchase orders and HR.
You would think we would emigrate to a decent ERP system but this is not the case. They have hired an excel power user who is creating a whole suite of excel spreadsheets to control everything from planning to finance to trasnport, capacities you name it. I am aware of shadow IT, and we have a lot of it, but is this a common solution that works? After all it is one man one vision on these damn things, with a complete disregard for any documentation other than user guides.
I am hoping for comments on this from those in the know about my situation.
Regards,
Dean.