re: Formula 1 chief appalled to find team using Excel to manage 20,000 car parts

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That said, there are much better products out there for inventory management, and since it’s F1, I’m sure they don’t mind spending the money.

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F1 has a budget cap meant to help smaller teams like Williams but it actually hurts them in a lot of ways because the big teams like Ferrari, Red Bull, and Mercedes have huge amounts of equipment and resources that were paid for in years prior to the caps. Williams has very likely avoided spending money on what some might have considered unnecessary spending which has resulted in the issues at hand.

James Vowles who just took over as the team principal of Williams Racing came from Mercedes-AMG Petronas where they likely had custom-designed software for inventory management. When you go from the penthouse to the outhouse even if you have perfectly good Charmin somewhere on the campus (if you can find it) you are still going to miss the Toto bidet you had in your private WC.



ETA I wonder of anyone will notice what I did up there.