We have a new capacity planning tool for you.
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on April 17, 2012
Sort Out Your Customer Orders
on October 20, 2011
In times of shortage, how do you allocate inventory to customer orders?
It is tempting to fall back on hard allocation. This could be a mistake.
Here’s why. With a download simulation to prove it.
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on October 4, 2011
How does your Excel planning measure up?
Are you getting the best results or are you suffering from Excel hell?
Here is a simple measurement and a download tool that can give you an instant rating on your planning tools built with spreadsheets.
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on July 27, 2011
The biggest headache in material planning is long lead-time materials.
Here is a simple tool that gives visibility between a buyer and a factory separated by a lot of water.
Also see an easy trick to connect multiple Excel users on different continents with free data integration over the cloud.
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Here is a Capacity Planning Tool to download, test and run with your own data.
You can see your work orders from sales, compare with available capacity. Gives you instant visibility on production capability and constraints.
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Happy new year! A time for planning and new year resolutions.
Ouch. The word “Resolutions” doesn’t give you good feelings, does it?
I prefer habits -form them and it takes effort to break them. Here are seven good habits for using Excel for planning.
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The dilemma of demand planning: to use a forecast or history.
We cannot expect history to repeat itself, yet every day we are reminded of inaccuracy and bias in the forecast.
How to combine the forecast and history to get a true measure of demand.
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Excel is the most widely used software for production planning. Production planning is one of the most common applications for Excel in manufacturing. Yet, there is one common mistake that people make when production planning in Excel. Avoid doing this one thing and you will save yourself hundreds of hours of unnecessary and repetitive work with production planning data. The mistake:..
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Many of the tools, templates and systems that we build use macros in Excel. Some of you will be quite capable and experienced with Excel macros and VBA. Others could be coming across Excel macros for the first time. Excel 2007 upwards has some additional security for running macros. If
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