These databases store valuable content but do not translate them into business logic or knowledge. They serve their respective masters in silos. There is no collaboration, but excessive duplication and complete disintegration. Lethargy in the supply chain is often the cause for production shortfalls - affecting product quality and consumer confidence. We all know that when a company is riddled with inefficiencies, employees lose faith.
Service levels fall.
Bottom line diminishes. And creditors up the pressure. This is, of course, an all gloom and doom scenario. I think many of us. I certainly have.