Gabriele Tettamanzi

Demand scenarios: automate your manufacturing budget with zero coding

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This article explains how to build a simple manufacturing budget using the Fast Excel Development Template. We’ll calculate material, machine, and manpower cost requirements for several demand scenarios and compare available work center hours with the workload. On top of that, I’ll share a few new features recently added to the FEDT, along with the companion tool described in the article.

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A New, Simpler Finite Scheduling Algorithm – In 14 Minutes You Can Understand How It Works and Download A Working Example in Excel

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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.

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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

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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.

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Automotive manufacturing

Case Study – Why Did I Start Production Planning By Spreadsheets?

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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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