Software Development 4 min read
Inventory Management Systems: When Spreadsheets Stop Being Enough
Spreadsheets are a genuinely good starting point for inventory tracking — free, flexible, and familiar. Many successful businesses run on Excel or Google Sheets for years without issue. But there's a point where the very flexibility that made spreadsheets useful becomes a liability: manual entry errors compound, multiple people editing the same file creates version conflicts, and what used to take minutes to update now takes hours.