Imagine being an engineer trying to gather parts to build your design:
You find a part on a shelf. You can put your hand on it. You can see the part number printed on it. To order it for a project five people now have to get involved and you have to figure out how to get the part number to order it because the number on the box and the number on the shelf are different than the numbers you need to use to order it. These numbers are also different than the manufacturer’s part number. All the numbers that refer to this particular part appear to be unique. Why are there so many unique numbers? What is the point of them being unique if they all describe the same part? These numbers also do not cross-reference each other in the SAP portals engineers have available to them. How does this system not make the company less efficient and therefore less profitable? Why is this idiotic system being employed? If a person participates in this idiotic system does that make that person an idiot by proxy? I believe that feeling is inescapable. Perhaps a cone-shaped hat should be ordered as well?