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4. But they're job creators!
Tue May 29, 2012, 08:57 AM
May 2012

Why are these congressmen so opposed to the capitalist free market system? This is just another silly foray into class warfare, this is. So, which dummycrats are behind this attack on job creating entrepreneurs???

Fortunately we have this information from some guy named Kumar (no concomitant quote from Harold):

"It was hard enough to locate appropriate items when we had to make substitutions in the goods we delivered and cope with other anomalies in the field,” Gaurav Kumar, Supreme’s information technology director, said in a June 2009 promotional “case study” for Microsoft’s Dynamics AX resource planning suite, which Supreme adopted in 2009. “But we also constantly struggled with invoices not matching the goods delivered, containing errors, and inconsistent data.”

Kumar added then: “When I looked at our inventory module, I saw that it had no checks built in for handling inventory management and addressing the principles of warehousing, such as systematic stock management and stock traceability, which are especially important with food service,” he said. “We tried to program some functionality to that end, but the effort was extremely frustrating and produced inconsistent outcomes.”

Supreme’s resource software was also designed by a German company — in German. This meant few of Supreme’s international workforce, which speaks English as a common language, could understand it. Tracking fuel costs were prone to errors, given the effect of changes in temperature and monetary value to the price of gas. ”Tracking changes in volume was difficult, and price management for us was inelegant, time-consuming, and error-prone,” he said.


As to that last paragraph about tracking changes in volume and fuel costs, let me guess: Supreme was using that goddam socialist metric system, when we all know that good God-fearing Christians only use English weights and measures when they're waging global war against terrorism.

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