General Annoyance, work has no backup plans for IT

[UncleDave]

We make drugs for rare diseases. Many of our suppliers are single source. Two years would give us time to bring another supplier online.

I'm amazed the material doesn't degrade.

Capacitors in power supplies begin degrading the day of manufacture whether you use them or not.

 

[JeffKeryk]

We make drugs for rare diseases. Many of our suppliers are single source. Two years would give us time to bring another supplier online.

My career was in manufacturing expensive capital equipment. Keeping that much inventory would be a crazy, costly practice.
Inventory is evil. It gets lost, ya gotta count it, warehouse it, etc. Then it goes obsolete.

Expensive. Inventory turns for the win!
Your business is obviously a different game altogether.

 

[Leo99]

I'm amazed the material doesn't degrade.

Capacitors in power supplies begin degrading the day of manufacture whether you use them or not.

They degrade slowly. The raw materials are good for 5 years. The finished product is good for 2 to 3 years from manufacture.

 

[Leo99]

My career was in manufacturing expensive capital equipment. Keeping that much inventory would be a crazy, costly practice.
Inventory is evil. It gets lost, ya gotta count it, warehouse it, etc. Then it goes obsolete.

Expensive. Inventory turns for the win!
Your business is obviously a different game altogether.

Drugs don't get lost. Inventory control is very tight. Drugs are expensive. Not being able to supply our patients would be a very bad thing. We're buying raw materials that only one company in the world makes, so it makes it difficult to manage risk. There are also geo-political risks as we currently source some things from China or the precursors well upstream come from China and we'd like to not source from China.

 

[JHZR2]

Ugh that policy is the death of many good IT administrators. No room in the budget for IT DRP but then management is surprised when things go down and replacement parts are days or weeks away.

Why wasn’t it durably communicated routinely as a CYA forever? Reflect the blame they know is coming.

 

[Pew]

Why wasn’t it durably communicated routinely as a CYA forever? Reflect the blame they know is coming.

Usually *everything* gets documented. Usually.