So.. I've been scouring the net and cant find an answer to this. I don't even care the service anymore.. Does anyone know when its better to use an Instruction or SOP and why...id love a reg to back this up if you do know. We seem to have both .. for everything and its dumb to do double the work so I'm trying to figure out when one is more appropriate over the other.

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thanks!

Posting this story I saw on Quora that I felt was worth sharing. Not my story.

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