When does textbook asset management fail on demanding remote projects?

Hey everyone,

I'm Tanya, a DP currently juggling a commercial shoot for an auto brand. It's multi-location, primarily remote post, and the deliverables are tight. We're using a mix of C70s and a rented ALEXA 35, shooting ProRes 4444. On paper, we had this beautiful, meticulously planned pipeline: 'YYYYMMDD_PROJECT_LOCATION_SCENE_SHOT_TAKE_CAMERAID' for everything, robust version control for edits and looks, dailies auto-generated. It all sounded so logical.

But a week in, with dailies needing to fly immediately to different time zones for review, footage being ingested by multiple DITs on different continents, and last-minute client requests for alternate takes, it feels like chaos is creeping in. We've got 'final_final_v3.mov' popping up, odd camera ID discrepancies, and some DITs are just dumping everything onto drives with slightly off naming just to hit deadlines.

I’m trying hard to enforce it, but the pressure is immense. When does this 'textbook' ideal of perfect naming and version control genuinely start to break down on a real-world, demanding production with remote teams? What are the common pitfalls you’ve experienced, and how do you realistically mitigate them without adding more bottlenecks?