Happy Halloween from Keene Systems. 🎃
Every manufacturing company has one: the spreadsheet so old, so tangled, so dependent on one person’s secret color-coding that nobody dares touch it. It’s been patched, duplicated, renamed “FINAL_v2_ACTUAL_FINAL,” and emailed around so many times that nobody knows which version is real anymore.
That’s not a filing system. That’s a haunted house. And the scariest part isn’t the broken formulas — it’s what happens when the one person who understands it calls in sick, quits, or retires. The whole operation grinds to a halt.
Spreadsheets are genuinely great for finance and quick number-crunching. They were never built to run your inventory, your production schedule, or your order workflow for a 30-500 employee manufacturing business. When multiple people need to work from the same live data, Excel can’t keep up — and that’s where real companies drown in version chaos, data errors, and lost orders.
The fix isn’t scarier software. It’s custom software built around how your business actually works — one source of truth, real-time access for your whole team, and no more “who has the file open right now?”
No trick. Just a treat: a free conversation about what it would take to retire the haunted spreadsheet for good.
Book a 20-minute call with our CEO, Lance Keene: https://keenesystems.com/booklance
