The Seven Deadly Spreadsheet Sins
Business has a love-hate relationship with spreadsheets. Widely used, accessible and essential to running the business. They are also unsecure, error-prone and scatter silos of data across the...
View ArticleUncertainty and the Predictive Power Of Planning
Predictive planning provides a way to manage uncertainty. Planning can resolve the dilemma between schedule-push and demand-pull. How an Excel-based predictive planning tool can work alongside the...
View ArticleThe Secret Trick that Turns Excel into a Flexible Business System
ERP often fails to give you the flexibility and visibility that you need. Excel use has its own problems with spreadmarts and spreadsheet sin. Apply this technique and take control over your planning...
View ArticleThe Reality of Your Manufacturing World
Represent your manufacturing business using master data. Link the planning and scheduling system to the real world. Excel-based planning systems give you more flexibility. Flexibility within the realms...
View ArticleHow To Plan for Long Lead-Time Materials
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...
View ArticleHow to Share Excel Data in the Cloud
We build planning and scheduling systems in Excel. Some systems like this material planning example have more than one user, in different locations. Here is a way to share Excel data across multiple...
View ArticleA Two-Letter Word Will Change The Way You Look At Scheduling
Is the purpose of production scheduling to feed MRP and execution? If you're satisfied with this answer, then you're missing something. A small, two-letter word will change the way you look at scheduling.
View ArticleGet an Instant Rating for your Excel Planning
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...
View ArticleFive Things You Need To Know About Forecasting
Here are five things you need to know about forecasting. This is a statistics-free zone. Five forecasting principles for demand planning.
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