Stop defending Excel. It's costing
Tabish Khan
Stop defending Excel. It's costing you more than SAP ever would.
I've seen it too many times.
A warehouse running 3 locations off a shared spreadsheet. 4 versions of the same file. Nobody knows which one is real.
That's not a tool problem. That's a liability.
SAP isn't for everyone — but if your Excel sheet has more than 10 tabs and 3 people editing it, you've already outgrown it.
Here's the honest breakdown:
Excel is fine until:
→ Two people overwrite each other's data
→ A formula breaks and nobody notices for 3 weeks
→ Your auditor asks for a trail and you have nothing
SAP makes sense when:
→ Your ops span multiple sites or entities
→ Finance, procurement, and warehouse need the same data
→ Mistakes have a real cost
The question isn't which is better. It's which one matches where you actually are.
Which one are you using — and are you being honest about whether it's still working?
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Posted Jun 4, 2026
Stop defending Excel. It's costing you more than SAP ever would. I've seen it too many times. A warehouse running 3 locations off a shared spreadsheet. 4 ver...
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