The Real Cost of Running Your Shop Floor on Spreadsheets

Production planner at a shop-floor office desk surrounded by printed schedules, illustrating the hidden admin cost of spreadsheets in manufacturing.

The “real cost” of running a shop floor on spreadsheets like Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets goes far beyond the software’s nominal fee. This hidden spreadsheet tax can cost a mid-sized shop hundreds of thousands of dollars annually through lost administrative time, avoidable overtime, material waste and delayed customer deliveries. Manual shop‑floor processes may look […]