Here was the kicker: The raw material logs showed that the procurement team had switched suppliers on Tuesdays and Thursdays to save 3% on unit cost. The cheaper titanium couldn't handle the high RPM settings of the machine.
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He imported the massive CSV files into a data visualization tool (Power BI), linking them by timestamp and machine ID. This wasn't just accounting anymore; it was forensic data science. Here was the kicker: The raw material logs
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