R&D built a supplier scorecard

“ChatGPT can probably regenerate it.”— Katrin, R&D

Reason:

Because the dashboard disagrees with Finance by €49. Started as Invoices_Q3_v2_FIXED.xlsx with a script attached.

Built by:

Katrin, a controller

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Airtable plus four Zapier zaps

Database:

SAP, indirectly, through 4 CSV exports

Authentication:

CORS is set to * because the frontend was not working

Deployment:

running from an image tagged latest

Responsible:

a Teams channel with 3 active members

Documentation:

a Word document called Budget2026_v2.xlsx

Security situation:

CORS is set to * because it fixed the issue

Future disaster:

It will fail exactly when Nadia is on holiday.

Age: 34 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 44 days ago

Rated common mostly because: the builder has left, 9 users, €9k per year.