Your Planning System Needs a Check Up: Material and Capacity Planning | Fast Excel Development Template and Power Query.
Do a check up to your planning system: learn how to do it by the Fast Excel Development Template and Power Query.
A New, Simpler Finite Scheduling Algorithm – In 14 Minutes You Can Understand How It Works and Download A Working Example in Excel
The finite scheduling calculates the exact begin and end of each job considering routing and quantity for the workload and work center availability by a calendar for the capacity.
In the standard Fast Excel Development Methodology this requires smart and complicated formulas to deal with dates and time, and this is needed even in the simplest push only scheduling form. Of course you can copy and adapt the formulas from other examples and let the Fast Excel Development Template do the automation and the VBA coding for you.
This article is about making finite capacity scheduling simpler by an algorithm based on cumulation and sorting, and by some Power Query use. And as always there is a companion tool that implements the logic of the article in a fully automated tool.
Demand Driven Modular Distribution System – How to Build a Modular Distribution System by the Fast Excel Development Template with ZERO VBA Coding
Learn how to build A Demand Driven Modular Distribution Planning system with zero coding by the Fast Excel Development Template.
NEW DOWNLOAD: Material-Constrained Production Scheduling Tool – with a New Fast Excel Development Template Feature.
How to build a complete material and capacity planning tool, with finite production scheduling and purchased materials constraints by Excel and the Fast Excel Development Template.
Advanced Inventory Analysis: looking into the future – Fast Excel Development Template case study
In this article we explain how to use Excel and the Fast Development Method to build an advanced and fully automated Inventory Analysis Tool with zero VBA coding
How to Build A Business Grade Planning System with Spreadsheets with ZERO Coding and ZERO Cost for Software Licenses- Fast Excel Development Template 4.0
The pandemic economy is shrinking software budgets. You can build your business grade distributed system based on Excel with ZERO coding and ZERO software budget. Learn how our Fast Excel Development Template 4.0 make it possible.
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 supply chain department for a component
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