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    • Production Planning and Scheduling with Spreadsheets

    by Tony Rice

    Production Scheduling with Excel

    This is an information site to help you build planning and scheduling systems with spreadsheets. Here you will find tutorials, templates and downloads that can be used to create advanced planning and scheduling system using Microsoft Excel.

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    Integrated Planning Process Webinar

    by Kien Leong on January 17, 2020

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    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

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    Demand-Driven MRP in Excel – Learn How To Do It and Come Away with a Working System

    by Kien Leong

    DDMRP Stock Distribution

    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.

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    A Flexible Supply-Chain System Using Excel-Based Modules

    by Kien Leong

    Module Cubes

    How Excel-based modules can combine for a flexible planning system.

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    Helping You With Production Scheduling – New Webinars

    by Kien Leong

    Webinar Spheres

    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!

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    How Capacity Planning Gets You Halfway to Production Scheduling

    by Kien Leong

    Scheduling a Sequence of Orders

    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.

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    Download Our Capacity Planning Tool – Version 2.0

    by Kien Leong

    Capacity Planning Tool

    We have a new capacity planning tool for you.

    Download it for free to get better visibility on production load and capacity.

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    Setting Customer Service Levels… Without Managing Stock Levels

    by Kien Leong

    Hard Inventory Allocation

    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…

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    October 20, 2011
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    Sort Out Your Customer Orders

    October 20, 2011
    Demand Allocation

    In times of shortage, how do you allocate inventory to customer orders?

    It is tempting to fall back on hard allocation. This could be a mistake.

    Here’s why. With a download simulation to prove it.

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    October 9, 2011
    15 Comments

    Five Things You Need To Know About Forecasting

    October 9, 2011
    Demand Planning Sales 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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    October 4, 2011
    4 Comments

    Get an Instant Rating for your Excel Planning

    October 4, 2011
    Excel Planning Rating

    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 your planning tools built with spreadsheets.

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    September 26, 2011
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    Here’s An Excel Method That Every Planner Should Know

    September 26, 2011
    Exploding Tables in Excel Planning

    This is a core method to apply the Fast Excel Development Method in building a planning and scheduling system in Excel.

    Convert forecasts, explode demand and generate work orders — this method is something that every planner should know.

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    September 19, 2011
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    A Two-Letter Word Will Change The Way You Look At Scheduling

    September 19, 2011
    View on 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.

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    August 1, 2011
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    How to Share Excel Data in the Cloud

    August 1, 2011
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    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 users by using a simple cloud service.

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    July 27, 2011
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    How To Plan for Long Lead-Time Materials

    July 27, 2011
    Shipping supply chain material planning shipping

    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 connect multiple Excel users on different continents with free data integration over the cloud.

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    July 5, 2011
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    Scheduling Job Shops and Engineer-to-Order – Three Alternatives that can Work

    July 5, 2011
    Job shop scheduling engineer-to-order

    Job shop production is a challenge for scheduling.

    Three ideas to job shop scheduling and other customized products when you have no standard process data.

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    June 29, 2011
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    The Most Useful Excel Function You Will Ever Learn

    June 29, 2011
    Index Excel Formula

    I would like to introduce the most useful function that Excel has to offer.

    This is the most widely used Excel function in the Fast Excel Method. When building planning systems, I find myself typing this in formulas more than any other function.

    The function can transform Excel spreadsheets into a fully-blown business software platform. We use it to retrieve data, perform calculations and present them in a report.

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    May 17, 2011
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    The Reality of Your Manufacturing World

    May 17, 2011
    Manufacturing Reality and Master Data

    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 of the possible. Here are the essentials of master data and how they map onto your business.

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    April 25, 2011
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    The Secret Trick that Turns Excel into a Flexible Business System

    April 25, 2011
    Excel Software Secret Trick

    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 and reporting. Getting Excel to perform like a business system.

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    April 18, 2011
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    Kick-Start Your Capacity Planning

    April 18, 2011
    Kick Start Capacity Planning

    The most common mistake that planners make with capacity planning, and how to fix it.

    Some tips on how to get good visibility on capacity in a high-mix production factory.

    Download our free Capacity Planning Tool and load it with your own production data.

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    April 11, 2011
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    Uncertainty and the Predictive Power Of Planning

    April 11, 2011
    Predictive operations 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 business transaction system.

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