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05-14-24, 04:37 PM
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Getting pulled into some meetings for implementing an ERP (enterprise resource planning) software suite for my department. It's a discrete manufacturing complete one-stop-shop that takes care of raw and intermediate inventory, finished goods, batch sizes, orders, blah blah blah. Had one at my first gig out of college at a huge biotech place and it made sense there - formulations, manufacturing.
Thing is, we have a ton of SKUs and many of them are still in development. We are essentially an R&D chemistry company that is selling some products. Some are ironed out, some are not. So what's the net effect? We are having to make shortcuts, exceptions, and other band-aids that are basically decreasing the functionality and financial visibility that the ERP offers.
This feels like something that someone high in the sky in some Operations role thought would be a great idea, and sold it to the board by saying it would decrease COGS by X% and increase margins to the private equity group by Y%. It's a hugely costly effort and it will be interesting seeing if this ever pays off. Maybe it will as a conglomerate (the other sites/subsidiaries are going in as well), but here I can't see this paying off. I could be actually improving our bottom line methods with the time I'm spending on this crap.
Thing is, we have a ton of SKUs and many of them are still in development. We are essentially an R&D chemistry company that is selling some products. Some are ironed out, some are not. So what's the net effect? We are having to make shortcuts, exceptions, and other band-aids that are basically decreasing the functionality and financial visibility that the ERP offers.
This feels like something that someone high in the sky in some Operations role thought would be a great idea, and sold it to the board by saying it would decrease COGS by X% and increase margins to the private equity group by Y%. It's a hugely costly effort and it will be interesting seeing if this ever pays off. Maybe it will as a conglomerate (the other sites/subsidiaries are going in as well), but here I can't see this paying off. I could be actually improving our bottom line methods with the time I'm spending on this crap.
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05-14-24, 04:38 PM
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RMOT
More pics and vids on my Strava feed.
As we were walking in the parking lot I saw a solitary cyclist in full kit cresting the summit of the climb. I clapped loudly and yelled “Allez Allez” tifoso style, he smiled and said thanks.
More pics and vids on my Strava feed.
As we were walking in the parking lot I saw a solitary cyclist in full kit cresting the summit of the climb. I clapped loudly and yelled “Allez Allez” tifoso style, he smiled and said thanks.
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05-14-24, 04:58 PM
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She is a mixed bag of emotions. It sounds like the “charges” against her by USC may take several weeks before a final status/decusion is made. In the meantime she is flying out to Cannes today.
We are staying here until Friday. We are going to see the Angels take on the Pirates tomorrow as Mrs datlas is a big snoozeball fan and wants to check-the-box for every MLB park. We already saw the Dodgers last trip.
We are staying here until Friday. We are going to see the Angels take on the Pirates tomorrow as Mrs datlas is a big snoozeball fan and wants to check-the-box for every MLB park. We already saw the Dodgers last trip.
I'm not going tonight, got a little overheated today so need to chill instead of driving downtown.
Hopefully cheap tix happen this weekend when the Tigers are in town!
05-14-24, 05:02 PM
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Getting pulled into some meetings for implementing an ERP (enterprise resource planning) software suite for my department. It's a discrete manufacturing complete one-stop-shop that takes care of raw and intermediate inventory, finished goods, batch sizes, orders, blah blah blah. Had one at my first gig out of college at a huge biotech place and it made sense there - formulations, manufacturing.
Thing is, we have a ton of SKUs and many of them are still in development. We are essentially an R&D chemistry company that is selling some products. Some are ironed out, some are not. So what's the net effect? We are having to make shortcuts, exceptions, and other band-aids that are basically decreasing the functionality and financial visibility that the ERP offers.
This feels like something that someone high in the sky in some Operations role thought would be a great idea, and sold it to the board by saying it would decrease COGS by X% and increase margins to the private equity group by Y%. It's a hugely costly effort and it will be interesting seeing if this ever pays off. Maybe it will as a conglomerate (the other sites/subsidiaries are going in as well), but here I can't see this paying off. I could be actually improving our bottom line methods with the time I'm spending on this crap.
Thing is, we have a ton of SKUs and many of them are still in development. We are essentially an R&D chemistry company that is selling some products. Some are ironed out, some are not. So what's the net effect? We are having to make shortcuts, exceptions, and other band-aids that are basically decreasing the functionality and financial visibility that the ERP offers.
This feels like something that someone high in the sky in some Operations role thought would be a great idea, and sold it to the board by saying it would decrease COGS by X% and increase margins to the private equity group by Y%. It's a hugely costly effort and it will be interesting seeing if this ever pays off. Maybe it will as a conglomerate (the other sites/subsidiaries are going in as well), but here I can't see this paying off. I could be actually improving our bottom line methods with the time I'm spending on this crap.
One of my lab techs didn't finish his routine PM on one of our critical instruments - an ICP mass spectrometer. So, I get to go in the lab and get my hands dirty
. Good, bc if I thought about ERPs for another minute I was literally going to 
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05-14-24, 05:48 PM
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$5 bleacher tix are available for Reds v Diamondbacks tonight, if you get a rental and leave now you should be able to catch a couple innings
I'm not going tonight, got a little overheated today so need to chill instead of driving downtown.
Hopefully cheap tix happen this weekend when the Tigers are in town!
I'm not going tonight, got a little overheated today so need to chill instead of driving downtown.
Hopefully cheap tix happen this weekend when the Tigers are in town!
We could consider an Uber but the cost would be easily twice as high and mrs datlas is thriftier than I am.
05-14-24, 06:00 PM
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She is a mixed bag of emotions. It sounds like the “charges” against her by USC may take several weeks before a final status/decusion is made. In the meantime she is flying out to Cannes today.
We are staying here until Friday. We are going to see the Angels take on the Pirates tomorrow as Mrs datlas is a big snoozeball fan and wants to check-the-box for every MLB park. We already saw the Dodgers last trip.
We are staying here until Friday. We are going to see the Angels take on the Pirates tomorrow as Mrs datlas is a big snoozeball fan and wants to check-the-box for every MLB park. We already saw the Dodgers last trip.
05-14-24, 06:12 PM
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Getting pulled into some meetings for implementing an ERP (enterprise resource planning) software suite for my department. It's a discrete manufacturing complete one-stop-shop that takes care of raw and intermediate inventory, finished goods, batch sizes, orders, blah blah blah. Had one at my first gig out of college at a huge biotech place and it made sense there - formulations, manufacturing.
Thing is, we have a ton of SKUs and many of them are still in development. We are essentially an R&D chemistry company that is selling some products. Some are ironed out, some are not. So what's the net effect? We are having to make shortcuts, exceptions, and other band-aids that are basically decreasing the functionality and financial visibility that the ERP offers.
This feels like something that someone high in the sky in some Operations role thought would be a great idea, and sold it to the board by saying it would decrease COGS by X% and increase margins to the private equity group by Y%. It's a hugely costly effort and it will be interesting seeing if this ever pays off. Maybe it will as a conglomerate (the other sites/subsidiaries are going in as well), but here I can't see this paying off. I could be actually improving our bottom line methods with the time I'm spending on this crap.
Thing is, we have a ton of SKUs and many of them are still in development. We are essentially an R&D chemistry company that is selling some products. Some are ironed out, some are not. So what's the net effect? We are having to make shortcuts, exceptions, and other band-aids that are basically decreasing the functionality and financial visibility that the ERP offers.
This feels like something that someone high in the sky in some Operations role thought would be a great idea, and sold it to the board by saying it would decrease COGS by X% and increase margins to the private equity group by Y%. It's a hugely costly effort and it will be interesting seeing if this ever pays off. Maybe it will as a conglomerate (the other sites/subsidiaries are going in as well), but here I can't see this paying off. I could be actually improving our bottom line methods with the time I'm spending on this crap.
05-14-24, 06:14 PM
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She is a mixed bag of emotions. It sounds like the “charges” against her by USC may take several weeks before a final status/decusion is made. In the meantime she is flying out to Cannes today.We are staying here until Friday. We are going to see the Angels take on the Pirates tomorrow as Mrs datlas is a big snoozeball fan and wants to check-the-box for every MLB park. We already saw the Dodgers last trip.
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05-14-24, 06:15 PM
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05-14-24, 06:17 PM
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I expect she will be ok but it’s gonna take a long time. I am guessing she won’t get charges dropped/addressed for 1-2 months and then she will be considered an official graduate with a degree. But I think she is so burned by what happened it will take a long time for her to feel all better. I keep trying to remind her that her beef is not really with her school, the School of Cinematic Arts, but rather with the higher ups in the administration of USC. She is too sad and angry and hurt to see/appreciate the difference.
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05-14-24, 06:20 PM
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Getting pulled into some meetings for implementing an ERP (enterprise resource planning) software suite for my department. It's a discrete manufacturing complete one-stop-shop that takes care of raw and intermediate inventory, finished goods, batch sizes, orders, blah blah blah. Had one at my first gig out of college at a huge biotech place and it made sense there - formulations, manufacturing.
Thing is, we have a ton of SKUs and many of them are still in development. We are essentially an R&D chemistry company that is selling some products. Some are ironed out, some are not. So what's the net effect? We are having to make shortcuts, exceptions, and other band-aids that are basically decreasing the functionality and financial visibility that the ERP offers.
This feels like something that someone high in the sky in some Operations role thought would be a great idea, and sold it to the board by saying it would decrease COGS by X% and increase margins to the private equity group by Y%. It's a hugely costly effort and it will be interesting seeing if this ever pays off. Maybe it will as a conglomerate (the other sites/subsidiaries are going in as well), but here I can't see this paying off. I could be actually improving our bottom line methods with the time I'm spending on this crap.
Thing is, we have a ton of SKUs and many of them are still in development. We are essentially an R&D chemistry company that is selling some products. Some are ironed out, some are not. So what's the net effect? We are having to make shortcuts, exceptions, and other band-aids that are basically decreasing the functionality and financial visibility that the ERP offers.
This feels like something that someone high in the sky in some Operations role thought would be a great idea, and sold it to the board by saying it would decrease COGS by X% and increase margins to the private equity group by Y%. It's a hugely costly effort and it will be interesting seeing if this ever pays off. Maybe it will as a conglomerate (the other sites/subsidiaries are going in as well), but here I can't see this paying off. I could be actually improving our bottom line methods with the time I'm spending on this crap.
05-14-24, 06:36 PM
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05-14-24, 06:41 PM
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets;[url=tel:23240238
23240238[/url]]$5 bleacher tix are available for Reds v Diamondbacks tonight, if you get a rental and leave now you should be able to catch a couple innings
I'm not going tonight, got a little overheated today so need to chill instead of driving downtown.
Hopefully cheap tix happen this weekend when the Tigers are in town!
I'm not going tonight, got a little overheated today so need to chill instead of driving downtown.
Hopefully cheap tix happen this weekend when the Tigers are in town!
05-14-24, 06:42 PM
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ooh ya the RS is hot. When I was considering a hot hatch, I like the ST, jived more with my budget at the time
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05-14-24, 06:45 PM
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Microsoft d365. At my first gig we had Oracle and everything worked so well, but it was also a manufacturing environment. We're too R&D for this to make sense.
Well, it did give me an excuse to make this cool meme and share it with my boss and another department leader
Well, it did give me an excuse to make this cool meme and share it with my boss and another department leader
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05-14-24, 06:46 PM
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05-14-24, 06:57 PM
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Joined the Tuesday morning Fiesta Island ride today, best ride in San Diego IMO. Quality riders just riding real hard. It's a paceline ride that is punctuated by 30s - 2 min ebike attacks from a local coach. The tough guys hold pace or even attack eachother between the ebike accelerations. Awesome ride.
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05-14-24, 07:41 PM
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05-14-24, 07:42 PM
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a classic
a classic
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05-14-24, 07:48 PM
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Joined the Tuesday morning Fiesta Island ride today, best ride in San Diego IMO. Quality riders just riding real hard. It's a paceline ride that is punctuated by 30s - 2 min ebike attacks from a local coach. The tough guys hold pace or even attack eachother between the ebike accelerations. Awesome ride.
Of course, I do know a guy who by-passed the limiter and got power up over 40 mph.
05-14-24, 07:58 PM
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Sunday I went to the bike path for a couple hours of car-free spinning. There was a Mad Max looking guy on a huge e-scooter. The thing seemed to be about 6 feet long and had a metal body like 10+ inches tall. He stood straight up and was wearing a full-face helmet, leather jacket with shoulder pads, and leather looking pants with more pads. He hit the throttle when he went by me and was up to at least 25 mph in seconds.
It seemed weird and out of place.
It seemed weird and out of place.
05-14-24, 08:01 PM
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I think it's a throttle e-bike. Not quite sure how they work TBH. When he attacks us, its 30-35 MPH
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05-14-24, 08:11 PM
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05-14-24, 08:14 PM
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Whew, OT tonight at KCB. Last rehearsal before showtime and a few of the songs had issues. Alas American Salute is amongst them and it's the song I like the best. We gave it short shrift in the practices while spending hours on the silly flute concerto. Sad.