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+====== Overly Complicated Processes ======
+Once the existing processes have been documented, they should be evaluated to determine if they are unnecessarily complex, or if they are based on outdated or unsound logic.
+It is common to find that many existing tape management processes have been implemented in the absence of any formalized tape management processes, or tape management tools, and as a result may reflect this absence.
-<- planning:existing_processes|The lack of understanding of existing processes ^ planning:introduction|Introduction ^ planning:warnings_and_oversight  ->
+Examples of this are:
+  - Moving tapes back and forth from an offsite vendor to save $5 a month on offsite storage charges, but spending 5 hours a month of extra labor recording the movements in a spreadsheet and the offsite vendor's portal.
+  - Accepting unnecessarily complex backup and offsite schedules that are based on logic that cannot be programmed into a scheduling system.
+  - Scanning tapes with a hand-held Barcode scanner when they are being entered in to a robotic library that could otherwise automatically register the tapes as having been received.
+  - Relying on paperwork to record what comes and goes from each site.
+  - Picking tapes from a paper listing.
+<- planning:existing_processes|Understanding Existing Processes ^ planning:introduction|Introduction ^ planning:warnings_and_oversight|New Warnings and Oversight ->