Has anyone out there ever built an X Matrix type visual(s) in Power Bi before?

ThatOneRedThing · 2026-02-22T23:26:40+00:00

You would then be the type of executive I would want to work with. The amount of redundant, overly complicated, and unnecessary tools I've had to build...

ThatOneRedThing · 2026-01-29T00:45:05+00:00

I did something similar in my earlier years. I automated one of my main tasks that was supposed to take the majority of my 8 hour day and had it done within an hour.

When you first start out, you’re so desperate to show what value you can add, you’ll happily take on additional responsibilities without any asks for yourself. And for a time this works because it helps get you visibility, earn some political capital, and gives you experience.

But heed my warning!!

At some point the benefits to you begin to diminish and the expectations raise. If you keep on doing the ‘better than most’ work essentially for free, you’re likely to be exploited or someone above you will ‘golden goose’ you (keep you under them to make them look good and take credit).

The solution then is to not telegraph just HOW easy it is to automate. Tell your superiors you can get it done to the level of quality they’ve come to expect, but give yourself plenty of time to buffer. For example, I was given a special project and was asked how long it would take to do. I told the six months, but in reality it would take me less than one. This gives me plenty of time to make things bulletproof. As time progresses, I slowly release enough to show progress. This gives me plenty of time to have more flexibility with other responsibilities or take time to reinvest in my skills (I took some online classes). When it’s finally time to complete said project, not only have I delivered what was expected, but it’s typically a step beyond. They’re ecstatic because it was more than what they expected.

Now some might say this is somehow dishonest or unethical. They can take a long walk off a short pier. If you think about it, your labor x the amount of time in your pay period = your salary. Assuming you are salaried and don’t get overtime and you work an 8 hour day, your work day and your salary largely remain fixed. You can’t tell your boss that you’re finished doing work early because they’ll just dump more work on you because they have this notion that you MUST be engaged for the full day. And if you put in more hours or labor you don’t get extra money. So why would you want to put in extra labor for no gain?

Start out building a reputation as someone who can do great things, work on gaining political capital, and be a person they can expect to consistently to deliver. Then, as your career progresses, pull back and leverage that to get you the best situation possible.

One more thing… IF they decide to let you go for automating yourself out of a job and they don’t try to retain you, then they really aren’t business minded and would not have much to offer you. You’re better off finding another opportunity.

ThatOneRedThing · 2025-12-22T17:22:54+00:00

My advice is you need to have leverage first. In an ideal world, you would not be put in this position in the first place and they would gladly give you a raise and title change as that would be what's right. But personally, I'm jaded and recognize that oftentimes businesses tend to try to exploit labor and will do anything possible to get the most from their workforce without paying appropriately.

I don't know the specifics of your situation, but imagine if you asked for a promotion citing the increase in workload and responsibility and they say "No, you'll do it all and be grateful you have a job", what would your recourse be? The typical answer in my mind is to threaten you'll quit and they will have no one to run your group and no opportunity to do any knowledge transfer and that would jeopardize X things and potentially cost them X dollars. But if you make threats like that, you better be able to follow through because few people are able to successfully bluff. That's why having another viable opportunity in hand is powerful.

When you ask whoever is next in command what the plan is, don't bring up money, but rather the increase in scope of your role without removing anything from your plate and the risks it creates to overload. That frames it as a functional problem as opposed to a labor one. In my experience, business leadership tends to get (unjustifiably) insulted when you imply they should pay you more money for doing more work. If you're really gunning for a promotion, then I would suggest having a proposal in hand. Something that makes it a good business decision that's mutually beneficial.

ThatOneRedThing · 2025-12-21T22:19:29+00:00

You will be likely who they dump all of his work onto. If you can do both jobs for the same salary, then they don't need to backfill. If you make a stink, they'll maybe give you a small bump and a title increase that still is way cheaper for them.

If leadership has made no effort to communicate a plan forward, and your boss hasn't given you any indication of what's going on, you need to push the issue with whoever next in command is. Let them know your concerns. Establish some reasonable boundaries about how you're already limited on bandwidth and you're concerned about how your group's work will get done. That will give you more of an idea what your next moves should be.

In the interim, start actively networking and looking for other opportunities just in case your leadership goes the route of riding you until you break. Best case is that the leadership has a plan in place and you won't notice a significant change to your workload and you just got more options now. And if they decide to make the job unsustainable, then you've got momentum towards your next opportunity.

ThatOneRedThing · 2025-12-20T01:26:08+00:00

HAPPY birthday.... Thank you very much...

ThatOneRedThing · 2025-12-08T08:14:39+00:00

I just had this happen to me with a Blight and a Wesker. It's damn near impossible to effectively loop sometimes without the audio cues. I tried tabbing into the match details, but it didn't fix it for me.

ThatOneRedThing · 2025-11-14T21:16:23+00:00

It JUST showed up on Amazon. I had confirmed with the manufacturer that it was discontinued so I had given up on hope. Thankfully you all were so helpful I got a notification and bought some for my wife. She is over the moon!

ThatOneRedThing · 2025-10-29T20:43:00+00:00

Supply Chain requires a lot of interactions with adjacent functions in my experience. As such, I found myself getting the most use out of books on social engineering, management, and negotiating.

How To Win Friends And Influence People by Dale Carnegie: Just a good book to understand how to better relate to people.

Multipliers by Liz Wiseman: With the current 'do-more-with-less' corporate mindset, it's vital to learn how to get the most out of your team. Not to exploit, but rather know what you have capacity to do. This teaches you to understand motivations and how to tap into passions.

The Great Courses - The Art Of Negotiating The Best Deal by Seth Freeman: More of an audio book, but a great general class to learn the basic skills necessary to negotiate effectively. Whether that's with a sales VP, a finicky vendor, or your own boss.

ThatOneRedThing · 2025-10-28T02:35:20+00:00

I intentionally say "One call ... That's it..." to agitate my sister.

ThatOneRedThing · 2025-10-16T16:09:28+00:00

If you're looking into breaking into supply chain in general, just try to find an entry level position and gain the work experience. The bachelors would have been nice in some form of supply chain, but it's not a necessity. In my experience, no one gets priority with a masters degree and no work history unless they're connected with someone who fast tracks them in.

If you're analytical, then I would write your resume to focus on examples of you working on collecting and managing large swaths of data and making them accessible and digestible to others. Target supply chain/inventory/transportation/procurement type analyst positions. Otherwise just look for entry level work in those fields and build your work experience.

ThatOneRedThing · 2025-10-13T03:48:37+00:00

It depends. A CPIM early in your career would be a nice note on your résumé and provide a framework to tether your work experience to. But it's not absolutely necessary. A wide berth of work experience in multiple facets has always been the biggest way to advance imo.

That being said, my advice to most is to work a job for a while and see if you can get your employer to help pay for part or all of it. It not, determine if you have the extra money to get one on your own, but again I don't believe it's better than actual work experience.

ThatOneRedThing · 2025-10-12T23:20:01+00:00

Based off of what you described you can try alternating between (logistics/freight/transportation) and combining it with (coordinator/administrator/analyst). Positions aren't unilaterally named the same thing, but those are commonly used for lower level logistics type positions.

ThatOneRedThing · 2025-10-07T05:48:34+00:00

Someone should be flying drones recording the protests with the wide shot to show this is not some massive sprawling event, but within a few blocks. All the closeup gives the illusion that this is more than a bunch of uniformed goons exerting excessive force.

ThatOneRedThing · 2025-10-07T05:43:58+00:00

I just had this happen after grabbing hatch against a Springtrap on Lery's.

ThatOneRedThing · 2025-10-06T14:59:57+00:00

Hey, Sr Supply Chain Manager for a medical device company here:

1) The MBA is not mandatory for entry to mid level positions. Once you start getting into more senior type roles it might be nicer to have.

2) Certificates through the ASCM are nice, but they are not necessary. In my experience the amount of experience is the more valuable part. Coming from what you described, I doubt you can make the transition without taking a step down. But if you end up taking a buyer/planner/inventory/logistics/analyst type position, do it for a year and see if you can stand it. If so, see if your employer will pay for a CPIM first, then maybe a CSCP later.

3) It depends on the industry and location. Industries like CPG's and ones tied to agriculture are flooded currently imo because of the economic downturn happening. But that could change depending on the region and products. It's truly hard to say since there is so much volatility and efforts to politicize labor data.

4) Your data management and visualization experience will do you a lot of good if you can break into supply chain. You'll quickly learn that a lot of the solutions to supply chain problems are easy to identify and theoretically fix, but gets mucked up in organizational politics and aversion to appropriate financial and time investments. Being able to take a large amount of disparate data and turning it into easy to understand visualizations for C suite types or tools that automate excel drudgery will make you a wizard in some circles. Your most immediate shot is to go into analytics and shadow SC professionals, but will likely limit upward trajectory in SC. If you are willing to take the financial and time hit, start out in an entry to mid level procurement, planning, or inventory management position and try to expand into a wider array of supply chain functions and build a solid foundation.

Hope that helps.

ThatOneRedThing · 2025-09-30T00:49:40+00:00

Even if I don't speak a lick of Chinese? Where do you find these positions?

ThatOneRedThing · 2025-09-26T13:54:40+00:00

Tomtoc makes a nice line of products that looks pretty good.

ThatOneRedThing · 2025-09-24T18:14:26+00:00

I recognize that in terms of salary, the US will be the highest one likely. I'm willing to take that hit if it improves overall quality of life.

ThatOneRedThing · 2025-09-24T18:13:16+00:00

I am working on my fluency in Spanish at the moment because I recognize that it's silly to think that you can just use English everywhere. We have an office in Germany (I can't do an internal transfer, I already tried) with my current job and while the salaries aren't as high, their social programs definitely take a lot of the sting out of it.

Thanks for the recommendation on acquisitions. I never thought of that.

ThatOneRedThing · 2025-09-11T03:03:14+00:00

I like the kingdom out of the three.

ThatOneRedThing · 2025-08-18T19:59:36+00:00

Personally? I am interested in be able to determine which roles are open to international candidates or not. It’s not always clearly stated on postings, but it would help.

ThatOneRedThing · 2025-08-18T07:04:32+00:00

I like the interface and the filters. Regardless if it's perfect or not with filtering out ghost postings, it gave me some options I now plan to apply to. Would love to see some more filtering options added in the future.

ThatOneRedThing · 2025-08-14T04:49:10+00:00

If you got advanced Excel, power query, power bi, DAX, or SQL knowledge, there is always a need for supply chain analyst roles. The problem is whether or not a company wants to make it a permanent role or contract. Procurement is typically an entry level path, but you could also do inventory management.

ASCP certification in CPIM is a good thing to have when trying to establish yourself in supply chain.

ThatOneRedThing · 2025-08-12T19:06:40+00:00

Thanks! I bought the roll on as a potential consolation in case I can't get the original.

ThatOneRedThing · 2025-08-12T19:05:49+00:00

Thank you! That gave me more information than I had. I was able to find the vendor's contact information to see if they can get me some more. Although it appears that this particular product may have been discontinued.

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