Our Favourite formula is INDEX. Here’s How Microsoft Changed It In 2020 With Dynamic Arrays
An update to Excel 365 in January 2020 means INDEX might work more slowly. Here is how to fix it so it works faster than ever.
Case Study – Why Did I Start Production Planning By Spreadsheets?
This is a story from Gabriele Tettamanzi. Gabriele is a new contributor to the site. In this article, he shares his experience from using the Fast Excel Development Method in his previous company. At the beginning of the 2000s, I worked in the Automotive business. I was leading the
An Experiment – Doing MRP in Excel – Free Training and Download
A new MRP tool and training workshop for free. But, only if you take them together.
How to Build Your Own Planning Systems – With No Coding
Video tutorial on how to build your own planning systems with no software coding.
The Material Planning Template
Here is a Material Planning Template. It is pretty good, as far as planning templates go.
Here is what home-building can teach us about building templates and tools.
DDMRP in Excel – From Idea to Execution – Webinar Replay
A Replay of the webinar – DDMRP in Excel – From Idea to Execution.
Inventory Analysis Tool
The Inventory Analysis Tool is a simple way to quantify and visualise the inventory cover you have and where are the opportunities for improvement of customer service with a lower inventory cost.
How To Build Your Own Capacity Planning Tool in Excel – Webinar Replay
Here is the full recording from our recent webinar “How to Build your Own Capacity Planning Tool in Excel.
It walks you through, step by step, the process of building a Capacity Planning Tool, similar to our Ten Minute Material Planning Tool.
How to Build Your Own Capacity Planning Tool in Excel
We show you how to build our Capacity Planning Tool with our Fast Excel Development template.
Build Your Own Material Planning Tool in Excel
Here is the full recording from our recent webinar “How to Build your Own Material Planning Tool in Excel. It walks you through, step by step, the process of building our Ten Minute Material Planning Tool. But this is a full 60 minutes (plus Q&A) to describe the
How to Build a Material Planning Tool… In Ten Minutes!
Build your own Excel Planning Tool. Find out how we built a Material Planning Tool in ten minutes!
How to Build Your Own Material and Production Planning and Scheduling Tools in Excel
Learn how to create your own Excel planning and scheduling tools for a manufacturing business. Some people want a spreadsheet tool so that it will solve their planning problems at the push of a button.
Others want to take it apart. Figure out how it works. Adapt it and build their own. If you’re like them, then this webinar is for you.
Integrated Planning Process Webinar
A webinar training on the Integrated Planning process to link planning all the way from demand planning and forecasting to purchasing and production. Download the Integrated Planning System here
Demand-Driven MRP in Excel – Learn How To Do It and Come Away with a Working System
Demand-Driven MRP in an Excel Planning System. See a demo system and get a free, fully-functional copy of the DDMRP planning system in Excel.
A Flexible Supply-Chain System Using Excel-Based Modules
How Excel-based modules can combine for a flexible planning system.
Helping You With Production Scheduling – New Webinars
We are launching webinars to help you with planning and scheduling in Excel.
Here is how you can watch us build, set up and use these free downloadable tools.
Pre-register for our first webinar coming up soon!
How Capacity Planning Gets You Halfway to Production Scheduling
Our new Capacity Planning Tool gets you halfway to production scheduling.
This article will help you understand how it calculates dates and working days in the calendar. It will go a long way towards that scheduling goal.
Download Our Capacity Planning Tool – Version 2.0
We have a new capacity planning tool for you.
Download it for free to get better visibility on production load and capacity.
Setting Customer Service Levels… Without Managing Stock Levels
Setting service levels usually starts with inventory.
Here’s a way to improve supply for important customers, that doesn’t involve inventory sizing.
And it doesn’t involve production either…