NEW RELEASE – Fast Excel Development Template v4.2.0 – Now Supporting Modular Systems
“If this is a template, why are most of the sheets blank?”
“What is a modular system? How will this help my planning?”
We will answer these questions, and more.
What Is an Excel-based Modular System? How to Build Your Own? And, More Importantly, Why?
Our latest version of the Fast Excel Development Template fully supports modular systems. We have written here and there about modular systems. But, up until now, we have yet to provide in-depth content on how modules work and why you would use them instead of a single workbook. This article
Demand Forecasting – History as a Guide to the Future?
The demand history can’t tell us everything about the future, but it can tell us some things. This article and video outlines exactly what and shows an example of automated forecasting in an Excel tool.
How To Measure Variability in Demand…. And Why You Should Think Twice Before Using it For Sizing Inventory
Here is a story about an attempt to size inventory buffers, by measuring demand variability. It is based on a true story and there are lessons learned from real experience.
I’ll tell you the story in both words and data. I have compiled a dataset and will share it here.
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.
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!